Weekend with the kids, highs and lows

[drwex]

Given the beastly weather this weekend and Pygment's injury we decided to punt most plans and huddle in the AC for the weekend.

My one excursion was to Tosci's ice cream on Saturday afternoon to meet one of the people I play World of Warcraft with. He's a fun fellow, an intellectual property lawyer in NYC who was in town for his 10th reunion at Harvard. Several of the local gamers gathered in the cool for ice cream and rampant nerd chat. He was in the Harvard SF club, anime fan, MtG player. Geeks everywhere, what can I say.

I made sure to bring home two hand-packed pints for the wifey. It really is very good ice cream. Unfortunately, the downside of having fun was that I stayed and socialized longer than expected, forgetting to pay the parking meter. So I'll be paying the City of Cambridge a ticket fee instead.

(yes, I am linky with the links today. it amuses me.)

The high point of the weekend was definitely Saturday morning, when I took the training wheels off Kfir's bike. He's been ready to ride without them for a while. I gave him a chance to feel how the bike rested, then held the seat while he got started. Shortly I was jogging along behind and within a few minutes of that he was zooming off on his own faster than I could run after him. He thinks it's the greatest thing, and even the inevitable spills and one scraping/bruising crash with his brother hasn't dissuaded him. Parenting is great!

The low point was definitely early Sunday afternoon. Pygment discovered that one or both of the kids had been filching little finger-pulls off the flan she had saved in the fridge for me. We then had a protracted hour of upset as the kids concocted ever-more-close-to-truth stories all designed to avoid responsibility while I sat them on the stairs until they came up with a straight story. The parents were pretty sure who had done it, but rather than just accusing them we wanted to get them to understand what they'd done wrong (stealing, putting fingers into other peoples' food, lying about it). Parenting sucks, too.

Comments

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

I remember having my training wheels come off. My dad would jog behind holding the back of my seat to steady me. And on the third or fourth try I really took off, so fast that he couldn't keep up - of course I didn't realize this. I made it two more houses up before I had my inevitable, painful first spill. And I was so SO *SO* upset at my dad, and screaming at him for letting go of my bike and letting me fall.

Of course it took him a few seconds to get to the crash site, and when he did he scooped me up, dusted me off, and pointed back the way we came. "You got going so fast *you* pulled away from *me*" This didn't particularly help. "And remember where I was when you looked back? You rode all that way and more on your own." And that was an instant cure. Back on I got, and I don't think I detached from my bike for over an hour. Don't even remember if I fell again, or anything.

Thank you for stirring this memory...

[drwex]

A pleasure *grin*

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

Glad that Tosci's was good.

Overall sounds like a low key good weekend.

I hope that the upset with the kids didn't put too much of a damper on it.

I also hope that Pygment is feeling much better.

[drwex]

She's so-so. Just IMed me to say she's worn herself out. Punting the second half of the day clients to go to chiro and home to rest.

Tosci's is always good and sometimes they have ALL my favorite flavors. Do you do ice cream?

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

YES! Yes I do. So long as I haven't had any alcohol recently...the two do not seem to mix well in my tummy.

I am a bit of a bore when it comes to flavors though... my favorites are still Chocolate and Orange Sherbert.

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

I remember the immediate post-trainingwheelectomy ride -- quickly outpaced Mom, then found I couldn't steer so well, then headlong into a wall of brambles.

Dad had taken off the training wheels, and apparently it fell to Mom to deal with the result. I was probably five, which would coincide with their divorce....

- E