Book Club Night

Downs

  • More teething fun. The ibuprofen wears off around 2:30am and Calvin usually starts crying intermittently after that.

Ups

  • I had a pretty organized day. I got everything done that I planned to get done today. I’m amazed at how awake I felt given how little I slept last night.

  • We had our Science Fiction book club tonight. After work, I made supper and then packed it up for Jaeger and I to eat in the Erie staff room. After eating, we wandered to the “living room” section of the library for the book club. We had two other people show up which was a pretty good night. They had even mostly read the book, The Lies of Locke Lamora. I only got half-way through and Jaeger didn’t even start but it was still an amusing discussion. Next month we’re reading The Windup Girl.

  • Before leaving the library, I got Calvin into his thicker night diaper and jammies. To my surprise, once we got home, I managed to transfer him from car seat to crib without him waking significantly. I’m really going to miss that car seat. He has mostly outgrown it and his new car seat, which is not easily removable, is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. This also means we have to give up his frame stroller which was also wonderful.

Cute Calvin Moment

  • Yesterday, I made Holiday Bean Soup for dinner. Even though it has a bit of sodium in it, I figured it would still be a fairly healthy meal for Calvin so I set some aside and pureed it for him. This morning, I gave him his first taste and he seemed to enjoy it. I packed some up for daycare and dropped him off. When I went to pick him up, Ms. K said, “What did you give Calvin for lunch today!? He loved it!” She was feeding him and another kid at the same time and apparently Calvin would get very upset when she didn’t give him his next bite fast enough. Ms. K also said when she feeds him cheerios, Calvin looks like a baby bird with his mouth open and tongue sticking out waiting for a cheerio to land. I hadn’t thought of it that way before but it is a very apt description.

Simplification

  • Consigned some decorative soaps I’ll never use to the thrift store bin and old toothbrushes to the cleaning supply box.

2 thoughts on “Book Club Night”

  1. Kiesa

    Well, we encourage everyone to bring nominations. However, what usually happens is I scroll through our library catalog and look for books I think the book club members might like or would be good discussion books. I try to bring at least 4-5 so there’s a choice and then we informally vote on what we want to read next. We’ve started alternating Science Fiction and Fantasy each month. Jaeger’s not really into fantasy but the others are so he’s become resigned.

    Usually only about half of the people that show up have actually read the book so the book discussions are pretty quick. However, I find I really enjoy all the book-related tangents we get into.

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