Apples and beans.
Or, notes from the rest of yesterday.
Took my poor, injured computer to the Apple Store without an appointment and actually managed to be seen within half an hour. Had fun with Sami on the kiddie macs in the meantime, and we tested all of the headphones on display with the tester iPhones. And I do mean all of those headphones. Whenever Sami didn’t like whatever song I’d picked out, we’d move on to the next iPhone.
The Genius at the Genius Bar reset my hardware settings, which resulted in a return of full iSight camera functionality – yay! What I have since learned is that now my wifi card also works more predictably AND the problems I was having with viewing my own website on Firefox have also been resolved. Hooray for kicking the butt of the ghost in the machine! Maybe Google could have saved me a trip to the Apple Store, but whatever. It was a fun outing with Sami, and cost us absolutely nothing.
The crack along the side of my computer would actually not result in the battery falling out – the magnesium inner case wasn’t damaged in the trauma, so the crack is actually purely cosmetic. Nothing a little duct tape or Krazy Glue couldn’t fix.
After all that excitement, I made a simple black beans with wild rice dish, which was loved by all – in the end. Sami swore up and down that she doesn’t like beans (whatever.) She wanted rice only.
Oh, this one was so well played, it gives me glee just thinking about it.
She demanded a bowl of “just rice.” So I got her an empty bowl, put in about 2 tbsp of rice, and told her that if she wanted more, she had to then eat from the rice/beans bowl I originally had given to her. Inevitably she wanted more, and upon realizing that my promises are fulfilled, promptly declared herself “ALL DONE.” I negotiated her into three bites. By the time she was on the third bite, she’d lost count, and kept saying, “Two more, two more,” and so I of course obliged her without correcting her math.
She ate about half the bowl, into which I’d truthfully put a little too much for her, and was spared the indignity of reversing her “dislike” statement of earlier in the meal.
Well played, momma. Sometimes I surprise myself with parental strategy.
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