day 8: pizza with nate

Today was a long day. Struggling through home schooling plus working—conference calls and kids at home don’t mix. I wound up working in our big closet. Today’s specials were weak (one was frozen pizza) and one of my customers complained about eating pizza and pasta all the time. Welcome to covid-19. You’re punished.

I did do a desperate cooking “elective” with the kids. They were fighting non-stop so I just screamed: Who wants to do a cooking project and who wants to do TypingPal? Cooking was suddenly very popular. I quickly thought of a recipe while they wrestled on the floor—one I wrote about on this blog when Nate was about four. When I made Nate read the post aloud, he realized I’ve been writing about him for years. (Is this me? he asked incredulously.) We made the amazingly easy two-ingredient dough (which is a great quarantine kid-cooking project by the way!)

Then Nate had a Zoom call with a buddy. (Two 10-year-old boys trying to chit-chat can be painful but also cute. And also just shows us how strange this whole period is: when is the last time two fifth grade boys asked each other about their kitchens?)

And who hasn’t been outside or showered in 3 days, raise your hand!