Sunday, October 12 "What did we do today?"
We went grocery shopping, played at the park, and just hung out for a weekend day. Brian worked on slides for school.

I made rice pilaf from memory of my mom's version with butter browned spaghetti pieces, but they have vermicelli pasta here (Tel Sehriye %100 durum bugdayindan uretilmistir), so I used that. The girls loved it (who wouldn't like butter-laden pasta and rice?). Aeden. He pulled his usual carb-avoidance and didn't touch it until he had eaten every other slice of tomato or pomegranate seed within view first. But then he ate some.

And I finished my first book here, one Kaye had sent along with me. "So Many Enemies, So Little Time" by Elinor Burkett. I never would've read it without her suggesting it, and certainly never would have made the time to read it at home. I enjoyed it a lot. And I think it has been at least 5 years since I've read an entire (grown up) book in only 2 weeks! I started reading "A Wrinkle In Time" (Nancy loaned it to Lacey, but I've never read it either!). I like reading books :-) Maybe I can make a new habit that lasts when we come back to Washington, too. Feels good.