Last week at Aldi, I bought 2 bags of Gala apples. This is because I noticed E had been eating a lot of apples recently, so I thought 2 bags of apples (3 pounds for each bag?) would be enough for us to last the week-ish until my next Aldi shop. When I opened both bags of apples, they overflowed out of the fruit bowl and into another container. Today after buying a bag of oranges from Sam's Club, I went to put them in the fruit bowls and found a grand total of 2 apples left. 2. Apples. I don't know how on earth she finished them all, because Jon doesn't eat apples (allergy), and M sure as heck doesn't know what to do with one. I eat apples at the rate of about 1 a day, but in order to have finished all the apples, E must have been eating about 4 a day. I am both befuddled and amazed.
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Last Sunday, I attended a beginner's drop spindle class as part of the Midwest Fiber Festival to learn how to spin yarn. I've been trying to practice everyday (10 minutes at least), and it's quite a fun new rabbit hole to get involved in. The class was 4h long, and at the end of it my mind and eyes were swimming from the sheer effort of focusing so long on a single thing - something I haven't done in years. At the same time, I haven't spent so long on just one non-child related thing in years. After that, I browsed the vendors at the Midwest Fiber Festival, and learnt a lot of new spinning/fiber vocabulary from the kind and knowledgeable vendors (combed/carded/top/batts/staple). Then I went to run errands. So I was gone from the house for close to 7 hours, which is definitely the longest Jon has been left alone with the girls. When I got home, Jon said he never knew they fought so much, haha.
