I did it! By Friday I had the thank you cards done & in the eldest's backpack. It took the initiative to start on Tuesday, and I got it done by end of week - I did it! The fact that the eldest forgot to give them to the teacher...well, that's just Murphy's Law...I had him walking into school with a baggie filled with the cards for today. Hopefully the letters will not come home in his backpack & this task will be done, crossed off the list until the 2011/2012 school holidays {insert happy sigh here}.
The summer pool registration forms need to be filled out this week. The pool opens this coming weekend and we are pretty excited to give it a try. Now that the kids are old enough to walk in a place without running in all directions, I think this will work out nicely. We are even planning a staycation in a few weeks where I think we will spent a few days poolside.
We spent the Memorial weekend camping. This was my first camping experience (and obviously the kids') and it was a fantastic one at that. We camped with my oldest cousin & his wife - two people who bring me absolute joy. They are a fantastic couple and always fun to be around. They came supplied to show us the ropes and treat us to gourmet campfire meals. We spent a great weekend even though the cold and rain came - that didn't stop any of us...we enjoyed the town and the tourist attractions it had to offer. Thank goodness for a flexible bowling alley owner, who opened for our group of tweleve and awarded himself with a house filled with bowlers for the entire afternoon. We visited a local cave - it was beautiful!
This kind of love and quality time with my family, my cousin and his wife, and their super nice friends put me in the place I need to be for this coming week. It's going to be an interesting few weeks coming up with my boss leaving our small work group. This leaves me in a circus tent not very well lit, so I can't exactly see what's direction the tightrope will be going as I step onto it for this new change directed by the ring master.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Tightrope exercise
Today's acrobatics include exercising! Today I was able to balance exercising. It's something I know I should do at least 3 - 5 times per week but how to fit it in with the other things on my balance beam I just can't envision. But alas, today I was able to fit it in my excercise by walking to the commuter train station. It's a 2 mile walk, that I tallied via mapquest, and takes me about 25 minutes. Today, on this blistery, misty, cold May day, I enjoyed it. I'm hoping to keep it up, at least once a week for the summer. This will allow me to balance some exercise while giving the babysitter the ticket to freedom with the family minivan.
Today's balancing act: work (boss just announced she's leaving...more on that to come), exercise (walking home from the commuter train), completing the thank you notes (yes, from Tuesday...still there on the tightrope balance beam), bath night for the children, start packing for our first family camping trip, and complete the summer pool registration forms.
Today's balancing act: work (boss just announced she's leaving...more on that to come), exercise (walking home from the commuter train), completing the thank you notes (yes, from Tuesday...still there on the tightrope balance beam), bath night for the children, start packing for our first family camping trip, and complete the summer pool registration forms.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The feat complete? Gifts
So, yesterday I had the feat of trying to get the thank-you gifts for the school staff. I completed that only with the help of my wonderful husband and my great parents. Wonderful husband took all the kids from tee-ball along with my great father, bathed them and put them to bed. This allowed me to run to Target and get the slew of gift cards for the teachers, therapsists and after school care staff. The other stores were canceled for yesterday's performance.
Tightrope feat for this morning, before the pre-school singing program this afternoon: how to get the eldest to sign the thank you cards with only a few hours before school. It takes him about 1 minute to write 5 letters the first time, 2 minutes the second time, 3 minutes for the third signature...you catch my drift. To make the feat that much more challenging...he's not home. He's at the children's museum on this rainy day with the babysitter and the twins.
Solution: I will write the thank you cards myself. This is the part of the working mom that is hard to swallow...you have lots of great ideas but can't exactly excecute the acrobatics.
Tightrope feat for this morning, before the pre-school singing program this afternoon: how to get the eldest to sign the thank you cards with only a few hours before school. It takes him about 1 minute to write 5 letters the first time, 2 minutes the second time, 3 minutes for the third signature...you catch my drift. To make the feat that much more challenging...he's not home. He's at the children's museum on this rainy day with the babysitter and the twins.
Solution: I will write the thank you cards myself. This is the part of the working mom that is hard to swallow...you have lots of great ideas but can't exactly excecute the acrobatics.
Do plants have eyes?
Before thinking of the tightrope feat I will attempt today, I've decided to focus on something fun first...help me keep the day's circus acts in perspective:
My eldest brought home a plant for mothers day, the cute kind in a baby jar all decorated. It's on my kitchen sink windowsill and is growing very nicely. I'm wondering how in the last 12 hours, the longest stem found the tether to my blinds and wrapped itself around. When I went to bed, I did a double take as I shut the window and wondered, is that branch reaching for the pulley? This morning it was confirmed, while I was sleeping, that young branch wound itself around the beaded cord three times. Amazing! How did that plant know that blind's cord, 6 inches away, would be a good fit to loop itself around and grow? Plants must have eyes. Re-think this one all my friends and family who are vegans...maybe plants do have eyes.
My eldest brought home a plant for mothers day, the cute kind in a baby jar all decorated. It's on my kitchen sink windowsill and is growing very nicely. I'm wondering how in the last 12 hours, the longest stem found the tether to my blinds and wrapped itself around. When I went to bed, I did a double take as I shut the window and wondered, is that branch reaching for the pulley? This morning it was confirmed, while I was sleeping, that young branch wound itself around the beaded cord three times. Amazing! How did that plant know that blind's cord, 6 inches away, would be a good fit to loop itself around and grow? Plants must have eyes. Re-think this one all my friends and family who are vegans...maybe plants do have eyes.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Gifts
I have a lot of gifts coming up: teachers and therapists at school for year end thank-yous, the afterschool daycare coordinator, and my sister's shower. How to do this when trying to stay within my monthly credit card budget? It's a question I ponder as I look over my 3 new tee-shirts I purchased this week to replace the old, worn out ones from last year. The bigger question for the balancing act today: how to fit in the shopping trip to these stores, when today seems like the only feasible day to get it all done (packing for camping this week is on the list, but first things first). Today's tightrope feat: tackle today's work, perform the school drop off, attend a doctors appointment, host dinner with parents, and spectate a tee ball game. I WILL fit in the trip to Target, Hallmark and Deals (and maybe Michaels) for these gifts in the day somewhere...just where?
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