The weekend

We bought a small trampoline a million years ago to put in Claudia's room and we finally put it together this weekend. The rules are, no jumping in just socks, no jumping off the trampoline, an adult has to be present, and no bouncing the dog on it (yes, that had to be said).






This weekend we watched a lot of tv. Jordan was undergoing treatment for her stomach problem one more time, so we stayed close to home for most of it. Jamie and I have been watching Rome (an HBO series) on DVD. It's enjoyable if you like soap opera-esqe productions set in ancient Rome with lots of violence and sex and violence. And apparently, we do! So we watched that after the chicklets were in bed on Friday night. Jordan and Sammy watched Sammy's new Harry Potter DVD and then Barbie Magic of the Rainbow. Claudia stuck with network tv and watched Conan O'Brien (she calls him Coney), SNL and Office Space.

We went to church this morning. Jordan and Sammy joined the children's choir, so we had to get there early. They're singing a song from the Steve Irwin tribute at an Earth Day function on the 28th. This selection cracks me up because it's so very UU, but at least they're not singing Seasons of Love from Rent (five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes) which seems to be a popular UU offering.

We had a poetry and music service (piano, violin, cello) and Rumi, as always, was included, but unusually, Mary Oliver was not. Jamie wishes more Rumi translators would find another word to use than "lover". I agree that would be very nice. "Significant Other" isn't poetic enough? But we like Rumi enough that we had a Rumi poem as the benediction at our wedding (it was one of his loverless ones). Claudia learned about differently abled people and Jamie and I told her that they're actually disabled, not differently abled, and she should just call them disabled (or handicapable!), but she really does have to stop using the word "retarded" already. Jordan and Sammy learned about David and Goliath and had popcorn.

Sammy and Jordan, btw, are getting along so well and they're really cute together. They were playing hand clapping games on the way home from church. Five minutes after Sam went to her mom's tonight, Jordan said, "It's boring without Sam"!

We cooked a lot this weekend. We made salsa, a beef roast, two greek salads and cranberry orange cookies from Sunset Magazine (we call them crack smackers).