Scenes from Our Weekend

Nirvana comes on over the car radio as Eric and I drive to dinner early Friday evening.  

"I don't know how seventeen-year-old me would feel about this," Eric remarks.  "Listening to Nirvana while I drive a Subaru through the suburbs on Friday night, on a date with my wife. I think seventeen-year-old me would be unimpressed."  

By 10 pm we're both lying in bed.  I'm watching Scandal on my phone, and Eric is playing Game of War on his.  

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Listening to Madeline help Eric with some home improvement projects:  

"Be careful where you swing that hammer, Madeline."  

And then,

"No.  Stop. That's very dangerous."  

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Madeline throws a ball across the room for Vivi.

"Fetch!" She commands.

"Madeline, she's not a dog. She doesn't fetch," Eric tells her.  

Maddie watches Vivi chase the ball. "But look, she is fetching."  

"Madeline, stop trying to make fetch happen. It isn't going to happen."