So happy together

Sunday night I told Mark that I was going to clean the pantry on Monday so he could help me.  He is my hired help and I'm not sad about it.

Then after I went to bed, Adam cleaned the pantry.

He said, "I'm sorry if you wanted to do it."  I told him that I didn't want to do it, I just wanted to have it done. There were some things he didn't know what to do with and he left those on the counter, but he did all the heavy lifting.  I was thrilled to not clean the pantry. 

I texted Braeden to call me if QE needed a story read from her Nana and he first called me on his walk home from campus and then later he and QE FaceTimed me.  I read her two stories and we had Horace listen too.  She said, "But he's a goat!"

I said, "Yes, but he loves stories."

She called again (with her dad's help) in the late afternoon.  We looked at toy horses and knights and discussed, then I read her more stories.  I was happy my living room looked like this at the end of the day:

I want her to be my neighbor. (And Braeden and Anna!)

I got a few texts from my other girl:

I think she would make a good 17th century monarch.

Mark asked me over the weekend if egg salad has gluten in it and I told him it does not.  He said, "I like egg salad."

There is a staggering amount of stuff I haven't taught him.

We made egg salad for lunch.  I had mine on regular wheat bread and he had his on a gf bagel.  I asked him the best kind of gluten free bread.  There was a long pause.  I said, "Is that not a thing?"

He said, "Not really."

We were out of mayonnaise.  Mark said, "That's maybe something we should have checked."

I said it was definitely something we should have checked, but we subbed in sour cream and it worked.

After lunch, we had silent reading time.  The entire time our kids were growing up and could read, we had silent reading time after lunch and it was the most cozy wonderful part of any day.  I was happy to settle in with Mark for 30 minutes.

Here's the important update for my blog though:  our Disney Movie Championship.

There was a lot of negotiation and compromise, but here's what we came up with:

Imagine us sitting around the table, having intense conversations about whether or not we should include Toy Story II because it is arguably better or Toy Story because it is the original. We had four categories for each wing of the bracket:  princesses, musicals, Pixar, non-musicals.  The water was muddy.  According to Disney, the official princesses include Mulan (not a princess) but not Frozen (princesses).  I don't know.  We also struggled to know what was exactly a musical or not, but we just assigned them anyway.  So I know our categories are a little nonsensical.

The numbers are how long the movies are, because we are going to rewatch all of them!

Sunday night we started with Rescuers.  Adam was the only one who had seen it.  We created a rubric for scoring.  We are giving the movies a score of 1-5 in the following categories:  animation, story, voice talent, and music/soundtrack.  So each movie could get a possible of 20 points, 60 if you add the three of us.

Believe me when I tell you that we are very serious.  It is fun to be very serious about something that is not very serious.

Rescuers scored a respectable 37 out of 60.  It is up against the top seed, Emperor's New Groove.

Mark said, "When we finish this in five years, we should do a bracket of songs."

He's probably not wrong about it taking us a while.  We're enjoying it in the meantime though.

So far so good with this summer.  I have meetings today and tomorrow but that is all until August.

I am kind of loving not getting a Master's Degree this summer....