Sunday, February 14, 2010
Valentine's day column
My editor asked me to write a column about how Earl and I fell in love. The resulting piece took place a little while after the initial fall. Enjoy!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monday again
I'm at the top of the first hill, looking at the ups and downs that are going to be the roller coaster ride of this busy week.
In addition to the normal weekly routine, I'm substituting for a cantoring colleague who is out of town for a month, and have two morning funerals scheduled already. I am grateful for the work, which I enjoy, and am pleased that he asked me to cover for him.
Tomorrow is Timmy's kindergarten registration appointment. The actual appointment shouldn't take long, but compiling the necessary documentation is a big project for later today. Proof of residency, immunization forms, birth certificate, photo ID, tax forms, you name it, the school district needs it in order to determine whether my youngest son, who has two older siblings currently enrolled in school, is eligible to attend kindergarten next year. I realize that it's the same for everyone, but it's busywork I don't enjoy, especially when I have to fill out the same information on multiple pieces of paper in the same registration packet. It all seems very inefficient in this computerized age.
There are a few other things -- coffee with a friend, a church function, snow coming on Wednesday. I also printed out one of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, from the Petrucci Music Library, and would love to start learning it. I never, ever, play piano for pleasure, and am thinking I really should do that for myself once in a while.
In addition to the normal weekly routine, I'm substituting for a cantoring colleague who is out of town for a month, and have two morning funerals scheduled already. I am grateful for the work, which I enjoy, and am pleased that he asked me to cover for him.
Tomorrow is Timmy's kindergarten registration appointment. The actual appointment shouldn't take long, but compiling the necessary documentation is a big project for later today. Proof of residency, immunization forms, birth certificate, photo ID, tax forms, you name it, the school district needs it in order to determine whether my youngest son, who has two older siblings currently enrolled in school, is eligible to attend kindergarten next year. I realize that it's the same for everyone, but it's busywork I don't enjoy, especially when I have to fill out the same information on multiple pieces of paper in the same registration packet. It all seems very inefficient in this computerized age.
There are a few other things -- coffee with a friend, a church function, snow coming on Wednesday. I also printed out one of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, from the Petrucci Music Library, and would love to start learning it. I never, ever, play piano for pleasure, and am thinking I really should do that for myself once in a while.
Time to get started. The week should be an interesting ride.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Fun Friday
I am very excited today for a few reasons:
- Timmy had a playdate so I had extra kid-free time this morning. I exercised a little longer than usual and then did some housework in anticipation of Earl's parents coming over for dinner tomorrow. Not a thrill-a-minute morning, cleaning and all, but it is done, it looks good and I don't have to do it tomorrow.
- I got a writing assignment that looks very interesting. Can't wait to get started.
- A different afternoon schedule today: usually Earl and I divide and conquer -- he takes Abby to church choir while I take the boys to dance class, or vice-versa. Today, we're all going together to pick up the kids (and then to the doctor's office so they can get their second dose of H1N1 vaccine...that's not the fun part, obviously) and then OUT to EAT. This may not be a big deal for many readers, but we never, ever, go out to dinner as a family. We're all looking forward to it.
- I met my deadline, despite choosing to do housework over editing this morning.
- I had a nice cup of tea with a friend today. Aaahhhh.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Happy list
- Abby playing well tonight in her teacher's violin studio recital. Not spectacularly; not her very best, but still pretty well. Especially considering the off-the-string phrasing in Andantino.
- Abby never getting nervous or even hyped up about performing. She likes to do it. She gets up there, does it, and sits back down. No biggie. I never was that calm about performing, even as a child.
- Timmy being so good about going to the Y lately. He hated it for a while. We went, anyway, but it's much easier this way.
- Thinking about my extra-long morning tomorrow...picking Timmy up later than usual because of a playdate. Extra time! Wow.
- Realizing that just briefly meditating on the word, "patience," when I'm feeling impatient, actually changes how I feel.
- Abby's math test being postponed until Thursday.
- Feeling like I ought to mention Brian and Earl, but they are fine and I'm tired, so deciding to just sign off and go to bed. They know they make me happy, too.
Boys, overheard
Timmy: I can't wait for the flowers to grow, but I can wait for the mosquitoes.
***
Brian: You know what iron gives you? Red blood vessels.
Timmy: And Spiderman. And I know what else is red. It's the stuff under your eyes.
Brian: You know when your eyes are all red, you can see your brain.
Timmy: Now I'm thinking.
***
Brian: You know what iron gives you? Red blood vessels.
Timmy: And Spiderman. And I know what else is red. It's the stuff under your eyes.
Brian: You know when your eyes are all red, you can see your brain.
Timmy: Now I'm thinking.
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