Day Eighty-Four
The BFG Page: 243
Essays George Orwell Page: 766
I LOVE DAYS OFF! As previously mentioned, yesterday was our first day off since Christmas. Not just our first day off together but really our first day off. I’ve kinda had a couple days (last week when I tried to get lots of reading done, and a couple days after I had Luc in December) but I’ve at least gone to work all of them, to get a few things done, or spent part of the day working from home. But Jared has had nothing since Christmas. He worked 88 days in a row and his shortest working day was 12 hours long. Yes I married Superman. Jared and I enjoyed dinner (wine, bread, and cheese from the Co-op), our stay in the hotel and this morning’s breakfast at Goldy’s. Goldy’s is notoriously busy and even on a Monday morning we were lucky to snag the last free table before the queue started. I reveled in a non-diet breakfast of coffee and a cinnamon roll and Jared enjoyed his omelet. Then we came home to our adorable children. Alex was so excited to see us that he almost broke the window beating on it and I was in heaven feeling his sot little cheek against mine. I’m such a dork that it took concentrated effort not to miss them all night. It is so funny how you can want time away so badly and then spend that time longing to be back where you were trying to get away from. I’m glad I miss them when I’m away though and we managed to have a wonderful time. Eleven hours of sleep is a beautiful thing.
I’m officially a huge Roald Dahl fan. I’ve heard that some of his stuff is pretty dark and I believe it. I read his collected short stories in January and they had a good dose of dark stuff, but The BFG was incredible. I think it must be absolutely enchanting to a child’s sense of language and adventure and I can’t wait to try it out on the boys. The illustrations are marvelous (of course) and the sketches of the Queen look so much like the photos I’ve seen of a young Elizabeth the Second. Definitely a two thumbs up.