Weekend....bliss??

Bliss, not so much actually.

Brendan, as many of you know, is proving to be a rather difficult child-lots of ignoring us, doing the opposite of what we've asked, doing anyways what we've told him not to do...so it can make for some difficult days. He's also prone to some temper tantrums when things don't go his way. All can add up to some rather trying times.

Our Saturday started out like this-attitude from the get-go. We didn't think it would be much of a good day-but we managed to mostly salvage it.

We started out with a walk to show Jason the market where we have been buying fruits/veggies. We got a few more things-some various greens/lettuces/something green and presumably edible for salads anyways, garlic (I want to make baked garlic like Arin Krin), a lemon, and maybe some other stuff I can't remember. We walked back through some neighborhood areas, saw beautiful views of the ocean, Fisherman's Wharf restaurant, and generally just sweated our way back home.

Once home, it was lunchtime for the boys and Jason left to play basketball with friends from work. Kieran decided that screaming was the appropriate naptime behavior (rather than sleeping, of course!) and Brendan, who had earlier lost his TV, computer and playroom privileges, entertained our neighbor with the story of his life. (We live next door to another American family-also Air Force.)

While I worked on cleaning Facebooking, Kieran screamed and Brendan both charmed the neighbors and watered the flowers for me. Jason came home sooner than expected, as no one else showed up for basketball. He wonderfully entertained the boys in the backyard with the water table and the sprinkler, while I actually got to clean the house. (Or Facebook maybe??)

We ended the evening by going and getting a movie to watch, went to a new (to us) restaurant- Hanahou- and had fabulous garlic shrimp, tuna sashimi and shrimp/avocado/wasabi salad. MMM. The boys (and mom!) shared a great Hawaiian pizza-the crust with thin, crunchy, and delicious. No tomato sauce on it either-there was some fantastic cheese-it had a slightly smokey scent, but I'm not sure of what it was.

We came home, put the boys to bed and watched Night at the Museum Two. It was funny, though I fell asleep through some of it, as tired as I was.


Sunday (it's Sunday early evening-ish now). Sunday started out okay...I made pancakes for breakfast. We lazed around a bit-boys watched a Kai-lan DVD and we finally decided to run a few errands. Unfortunately, the temper tantrums and attitude started rather quickly. We've currently got veggies roasting in the oven for dinner (brussels sprouts and green beans), corn soaking in the husks to be grilled, and steak marinating.

We'll see how this evening turns out....