An Evening with Grace

Peter was invited to go to a basketball game, then spend the night with a friend last night, so it was just me and Grace. We had a lovely dinner at Japan Express, with entertainment by a one-man reggae band! It was, incidentally, significantly better than you might think!

After dinner we went home, where we'd planned on watching Star Wars, but then Grace remember that THE NEW DISNEY MOVIE MINUTEMEN was premierring that night, so of course we had to watch that. Not bad ... a typical boys create time travel machine, boys affect history, boys must fix their mistakes. And, of course, in the process they learn about friendship and the geeky kid winds up expressing his undying love for the popular girl, and lo, she likes him back. Yay!

We also watched a couple of episodes of House Hunters, my new favorite show on HGTV. I've managed to get both of my children addicted to it, which may or may not be a good thing.

We finally went to bed about 11, after Grace dug out Prince Caspian for me. Her teacher is reading the Narnia series to the class, and Grace keeps asking me about the books, but it's been two years or more since I read them, so I don't know any of the answers! So I told her I'd re-read so I wouldn't be such a waste. She's reading The Horse and His Boy, and she is, I believe, the only person in the world who actually LIKES that one. She refuses to skip it.

Grace fell asleep fairly quickly, but it was still a late night, so we slept late. And now, after a yummy oatmeal breakfast, we're off to shower than meet up with Peter again!