Saturday, July 23, 2005

Call For Pizza
Here at the beach I am the cook, laundry person, tidyer-upper (sp?), and so forth. Lydia has her hands full managing four children, one a baby, but she also helps me by loading the dishwasher, cleaning up the kitchen after meals, and folding laundry. Andy takes out the trash for me. Ashley makes her own bed. My aim is to have everything at all times, comfortable, nice to look at, and clean. I always want to serve pretty meals which are also delicious and satisfying. I want everyone to always have at hand clothes that are clean, nicely folded and put away.

I want to have fun electronic games ready for play at a second's notice and in two locations...lots of different games in each place. And, of course, I try to be sure that all the beach toys are at the beach on time, all the pool toys are at the pool when wanted, etc.... beyond this, I also, want to be available to walk the baby in her stroller up and down the beach so Lydia can have a chance to swim and boogie board with the other kids. They have more fun when she gets a chance to play with them.

Then I want to be in the ocean and pool twice/day myself. Lately I've been involved in beachsand sculpture, too. I've had a book sitting here for a week and only managed to read up to page 158...that's a low for me.

So today around 6:00 P.M. when I got into the kitchen and realized that what I had planned for dinner was going to take an hour to prepare, I suddenly gave up. I called for pizza delivery, took my book out onto the porch and waited for the delivery guy. When he showed up with three hot, delicious-smelling boxes, I carried the boxes into the kitchen, set a roll of paper towels beside the boxes, opened the top box, pulled off a slice of pizza, picked up my book and went back to the porch.

Lydia poked her head out the door, "What's up?"

I gestured toward the book with my pizza slice and said, "Everyone help yourself." She smiled and closed the door. A couple of hours later, I came in to find the kitchen clean, a box of left-over pizza in the fridge, some enthusiasts watching the next-to-last day of the Tour De France, some playing video games, some doing their blogs, one reading the newest Harry Potter book, the baby toddling around making everyone laugh. It looks like life went on while I was AWOL. Maybe tomorrow night I'll call for Chinese food delivery.

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