The pool party with the Valdezcos was a busy one despite a morning that started out gray and drizzly. The kids were in the pool as soon as the sun came out. W- and I were in the kitchen making Momofuku-style pork buns, which turned out to be so yummy. He also made Vietnamese bun with calamansi at some point during the week, and that was delicious too.

A- spent a lot of time with us in the kitchen. She also got comfortable with being held by Papa and John G., both of whom quickly figured out how to bounce her for her maximum amusement. Yay! Mission accomplished: A- comfy with people who are not us. We also discovered that A- likes green mango. Whee! She's also been learning how to put things back into containers, which is a totally awesome development.

I enjoyed playing with G* and A*. They were fascinated by A- and graciously shared their toys with her, needing just the occasional prompt to be gentle with A- or to keep small things away from her. They're both quite verbal, and I was relieved to find out that I could keep up a running commentary with on-demand word definitions and explanations. I had been worried that our generally quiet nature might affect A-'s exposure to words, but we'll probably be okay.

The kids opened their gifts early so that Ching and John V. could be part of it before they flew back to California. It was nice being all together for a week, and we hope to coordinate vacations with them in the future.

We had lunch with a few of my godparents: a beautiful spread of cold cuts, cheese, bread, and a few nicely cooked steaks. They cooed over the kids, commiserated over various health issues, and discussed politics at length. W- and I swapped off every so often, since A- was sleepy. Then we headed back home with the kids while everyone else took care of other errands.

I started working on lots of paperwork: helping my parents with their Canadian visa applications, accessing my Philippine bank accounts, learning more about estate planning… There was a surprising amount of paper involved in updating our local bank accounts, but that's just life.

I wrapped up the week by freezing lots of lumpia for Saturday's party with the barkada. So much cooking, yay! Best vacation ever.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 25, 2016
• 2016-11-28 Emacs News

Sketches

• 2016-12-01a Week ending 2016-11-25 #journal #weekly
• 2016-11-26a Saturday #daily #journal
• 2016-11-27a Sunday #daily #journal
• 2016-11-28a Monday #daily #journal
• 2016-11-29a Tuesday #daily #journal
• 2016-11-30a Wednesday #daily #journal
• 2016-12-01b Thursday #daily #journal
• 2016-12-02a Friday #daily #journal

Focus areas and time review

• Business (0.1h – 0%)
  • Build (0.1h – 100% of Business)
• Relationships (17.9h – 10%)
• Discretionary – Productive (14.0h – 8%)
  • Drawing (2.4h)
  • Emacs (1.8h)
  • Coding (0.0h)
    • ☑ Renew domains
    • ☑ Fix Mysql issue
  • Sewing (0.0h)
  • Writing (0.0h)
• Discretionary – Play (2.0h – 1%)
• Personal routines (8.1h – 4%)
• Unpaid work (66.5h – 39%)
  • Childcare (54.4h – 32% of total)
• Sleep (59.4h – 35% – average of 8.5 per day)