I looked at the clock this morning and noticed I had ten minutes until my typical drop dead time for my morning activities before helping to get the kids ready for school, and they are not going to be ready this morning.
For us Spring Break was mostly spent working. Lara was out in the field covering all the visits no one else was able to do and running here, there, and yonder. I was at home with the kids and trying to keep myself sane while I nearly deleted the company website at least three times.
Yesterday might have been the best day or the bunch. When Lara went out to do her visits the kids decided they wanted to be in the den with me. I told them in order for that to happen we were going to compromise on TV shows and that meant no YouTube. We ended up watching Loud House together until it was time for the baseball game and the kids told me how rude I was for changing the channel. I had told them from the start that at 2:00 PM the baseball game was going on.
They got their revenge. They pulled out the Pokemon Monopoly boardgame, set it up, and were ready to play. The insisted that daddy had to play with them. Mostly because they still can’t read all the rules and game cards themselves and so I walked away from the baseball game and played Pokemon Monopoly with my children and it was some kind of adventure.
I don’t know if I can do it justice but they all had different ideas and rules for how to catch the various Pokemon and which ones they wanted when they caught them. I couldn’t understand the difference between one water type and another as the point of the game was to get one of each color, but they had to have the exact ones they wanted.
The game was interrupted by going out to yNot Italian for dinner and there annoying menu that is optimized to make you spend the most amount of money possible. They give nice size servings and the food is always adequate, if a tad overpriced, but I hate how they do their pasta menu. They give you two sets of three types of pasta for a different price and then a different up sale cost for each type of sauce and then an additional cost for any add-ons like olives or sun dried tomatoes.
Now my favorite pasta is spaghetti carbonara which doesn’t exist on their menu as their line cooks probably can’t temper an egg. They also don’t have cacio e pepe on the menu or any form of risotto. The pictures of New York instead of Rome on the wall should be the hint for that, but they give the kids pizza dough to play with and are one of the few family friendly restaurants in the area. Their job isn’t really to serve great food. It’s to serve ok food in a family friendly environment.
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