Mom and Alice left us early this afternoon. Corwin had spent the morning asking Mom when she was leaving and complaning that Mom wanted to spend time with him instead of letting him watch TV and play computer games. Mom is going to Texas for a business trip. The rest of us will be going on Thursday to visit my family. Corwin and Charles were a bit disappointed that we weren’t leaving today, but Dad needs to work and we don’t want Corwin to miss too many days of school.
Corwin had great fun after we got rid of Mom. First he noticed that we’d gotten rid of all the girls and it was now only boys at home. Next I popped out Alice’s car seat and let Corwin sit in one of the middle seats on the van. He really liked that. Even better, because it was warm in the van I opened the middle windows. This really thrilled Corwin. And Mom thought I wanted those windows just for me!
We also went shopping afterwards and I got Corwin his own rolling luggage bag. Corwin’s primary utility criterion was whether the bag was red. I tried to get a small bag for Charles, but he told me that all of the selections were too big. Even a small fanny pack was described as “too big”. At that size, though, I’d be lucky to get a single set of clothes in so I gave up. I will just hope that Charles doesn’t decide that Charles is too much to carry through the airport.