Playswap

My neighbor has a son in IEM's Montessori, and the two boys get along as well as two four-year-old boys can.

So we've decided to do a playswap two times a week. On Mondays, she'll pick IEM up from school, feed him lunch and do an activity with them. On Wednesdays, I'll reciprocate for some at-home play while Her Highness takes a nap. I'm hopeful that it will work out...the challenge for IEM going to school half-day is that he is on a roll and then has to put on the brakes for a few hours while his sister naps.

Today, I could not believe how much I got done while EPM napped and IEM was out. I cleaned, checked emails, researched some stuff for our trip to Amsterdam and Istanbul, made two pans of homemade moussaka (from salting the eggplant to making the bechamel) and read.

The other night Zack and I went out and saw "Dreamgirls." It was entertaining, and Jennifer Hudson is all that the critics say about her. We saw the preview for Mira Nair's new film, "The Namesake," which is in my top-five of all-time favorite books. So I'm rereading it.

Which makes this whole day seem even more circular. When I first read "The Namesake" I was pregnant with EPM and begged Zack, for Valentine's Day, to send me to a hotel for a night...by myself. I was reading this book at the time. And I remembered watching "Girl with a Pearl Earring" on HBO in the hotel. Which is set in Holland. Which is what I was also reading about today.

OK, so I'm tired.

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