Since I had gone to bed on time my start into the day went much better than the day before. I did my complete morning routine and had breakfast with my husband. The wood stove took so long to heat the water for tea that I was almost finished with my muesli before the tea was ready, but well.
I took a picture of my finished sock:
We went upstairs to wish my mother-in-law a happy birthday before breakfast even. She really liked the rosebush. We couldn’t give her our card that said we’ll restore her rose bed as our present at this point because that card was with the boy in his bedroom where he was still sleeping. She got that later.
I called my mother. I did some admin. My husband and I had an early lunch of leftover paella and fish:
Since I don’t use the microwave all that often I underestimated the time it would take to heat the food and so we ate it lukewarm. Rice salad.
I played some Genshin. I told the boy that he would have to make his own lunch, there were some leftover potatoes to fry. He watched me play and gave me a few tips. Also went full facepalm on some of my more embarrassing moves.
Later he talked me through the boss fight I had been botching all week, and now I’m through with that and have to fight another annoying boss. My husband said there’s a reason he doesn’t want the stress of playing games.
I had plans of finally setting my bullet journal up for January and all but when my brother-in-law came over to change the faulty light switch in the boy’s bathroom we finally figured out that my mother-in-law had give us all the wrong time for dinner. It was not at 7 but instead at 6. Oops.
I did the dishes in record time and jumped into different clothes and then we went off. On foot.
It turns out Google Maps was right and it did take us exactly 39 minutes to get there. It also turned out that walking over the fields (I mean, there is a gravel road but no streetlamps) went better than I feared because the combination of a full super moon and snow on the ground meant it was actually pretty light. Also very pretty.
The reason dinner was earlier was that two of our nieces and nephews brought their children. And that included the baby that was born exactly a week ago. Very cute.
The food was good as was the beer:
It was nice to see everyone and talk with people I hadn’t seen for a while. The walk back was very cold but nice, even though my husband kept pushing forward at a pace that was just a bit too fast for me. The way ack took 5 minutes less, by the way.
I changed into pajamas right away, started writing this post and went to bed.
And today will be another busy day off again.
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