Day Six
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DAY-TIME PAJAMAS
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PIZZA
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THEATER KIDS
| DAY-TIME PAJAMAS | PIZZA | THEATER KIDS
Today’s Vibe:
Everyone, I know you’ll be excited for me when I tell you that…the heat is on!! I spent a significant amount time in the kitchen attaching fabric to foam boards today for a theater project and just decided that it was ridiculous to be wearing a coat and flexing my fingers to stop them stiffening up while I was doing it - so, I hit the magic switch. Bliss! The house is nice and toasty and it feels very decadent but VERY lovely. I also, as promised, wore that new super soft outfit I found yesterday and so have been basically surreptitiously wearing pajamas all day so, yeah, today has been cosy and warm and lovely.
I spent the morning working, lunchtime attaching that fabric to those foam boards, and this afternoon I’ve been at the high school helping take photos for the lobby display for our fall show that opens next Thursday (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - should be good!). And now, it’s Friday night so I have a nice glass of wine at my side and a pizza on its way.
Fridays have always been pizza and a movie night around here - honestly probably for about 12 years. That’s a lot of pizza when you stop to think about it. My husband has spent the entire 12 years perfecting his craft. Initially I made pizzas with dough from the store, but I lack his patience so my pizzas were usually kind of rectangular with holes in them. He took over pretty quickly and it’s been his thing ever since. Over the years he has learnt to make the perfect pizza - with home made, hand-spun pizza bases, a perfected tomato sauce, varied and delicious toppings (who knew avocado worked so well on pizza?!) and, since we bought him a pizza oven for Christmas last year, the most delicious, crispy, wood fired bases. Pizza nights are pretty good.
Or, at least, they were. But here’s that half empty nest thing again. In the summer when we had all three kids at home and various other kids and partners popping in for dinner, pizza night was fun. But tonight, two are at uni and the third is on their way out to a party, so it's just the two of us, and you have to ask, is it really worth going through all that drama just for pizza for the two of us?! It seems not. We’re ordering in! Maybe we’ll get the pizza oven out next Friday…
So, pizza is calling so I’m making this brief tonight.
Today, I am grateful for:
My day-time pajamas- I have been seriously comfortable all day
Pizza - home made or delivered, nothing says Friday like pizza
Theater kids - I just spent quite a bit of time with them this afternoon, making them all put various random costume pieces on so they could be photographed, and they are just a LOVELY bunch of kids. The theater community has been a safe place for my kids and actually my whole family over the years. So 100% grateful for those kids and that community.
It’s time for the Gratitude Cloud!
You can find yesterday’s cloud here. Please share the things you’re grateful for this Friday below and I’ll make sure they make it to the cloud tomorrow!