the end of a good weekend

 i'm tired, and i've been very tired for a long time. this weekend was relatively restful, though. yesterday afternoon i took mr smear to my mom's and helped her hang paintings and set up a micro-ups for her router, and last night gd and i started with season 2 of the boys - we've just finished the second episode now, and i'm not disappointed.

oh! and mr smear and i started playing the gardens between yesterday, it's beautiful but it goes from kid-friendly to wtf in only a couple of levels... beautiful game, though, and we can play it together.

this morning was a slow-starter, i did spend a fair amount of time learning flutter things before we headed out to bakoven to meet a cousin and hike a bike trail... it was a beautiful day, and we all really enjoyed the outing! we then headed to plant and sat down to enjoy the buffet, the food was great and i definitely had more desserts than i should have.

the afternoon involved a nap (for me) while gd and mr smear played video games, i joined for a bit before getting motion sickness (toy story 3's sunnyside daycare area and way too much with the driving / riding), then the neighbour kid came over for a couple of hours and i spent wasted most of that time trying to point a subdomain at my api gateway. yee gods, why is it so damned hard to find an explanation as to how to do it? (i think i've figured out everything from the aws side, but my domain host's dns settings are clearly doing something wrong)

tonight's struggle with mr smear was about getting him to practice eating with a knife and fork. ffs, it's the things we expect to be easy in this parenting shit that always seem to be the hardest.

i'm tired, i feel like i should just call it a night.