sabbath peace

yesterday:

dropping mr smear off together so i could join my meeting from the car, taking gd home, paying the plumbing supply store a visit, walking to buy paton (spelling?!) screws and working from my mom's, workman who were supposed to be there from 9am arriving at 1.45pm and expecting me to let them in, picking up mr smear and having him shadow me with his little toolkit while i fixed our bedroom door handle, coffee shop work and running into my nieces and rushing to buy stuff and get home

thanksgiving dinner with friends and a wired and tired mr smear who hadn't napped and was really rough, a pleasant evening once he fell asleep on my shoulder, working a bit before gd decided she needed a bedtime story herself (her first time hearing the written harry potter) and passing out myself

today :

waking up around 5.30 to scribble notes about city infrastructure, then working through until around 8am and becoming increasingly vexed with and stressed about my project, dropping mr smear off at school, picking up a gift for the afternoon, hitting the gym with gd, jacuzzi chats, leaving late to pick up mr smear and getting stuck in crazy traffic so he was almost the last kid left

porting my code back from the macbook to my windows laptop where it worked beautifully (!!!), checking it in before driving to a very active superhero birthday party in hout bay, a little too much sun, getting home, getting ready and taking mr smear to the gardens synagogue

an upsetting and insulting encounter with the community security, a bit of an awkward start, chasing naughty kids and then handing them over to my mom and mr smear's friend's mom while i joined his dad for the service, an odd service but overall nice enough, more chasing children but with added naughtiness, walking home through the company's garden in the dark, kiddush and struggling to get mr smear to eat dinner, showering, reading him to bed and being thrilled when he informed me that he needed to pee just as i was about to turn out the light (and he passed out right after he was done), bloons and dinner and early bedtime