Monday Musings

I was tired today.

Busy weekend. After I fell, I stayed home and my husband took the kids to a college basketball game. Surprise, surprise, they enjoyed themselves and also enjoyed a piece of cake courtesy of Cub Scouts.

I roasted a nice sized capon with enough meat for a second meal today.

Sunday, we did church, of course. A young man led worship; he is the son of an old friend of ours. My husband knew his mother and birth dad before he was born. He did a wonderful job. The church wants to hire him but we will have to grow in order to pay him something. We'll see what happens.

In the meantime, we took a little break in the afternoon before going to the pastor's house for Superbowl. It was nice and my children had a lovely time playing with pastor's daughter, who is 5 years old. My daughter gets an idea of what it would be like to have a baby sister and so does my son. She's giving him a run for his money!

I did homework on Saturday while they were gone and finished it up this afternoon. I sat with the boys at the dinner table and did the practice test. I learned a lot from it and took notes. My youngest asked me why I was doing the test. I had to be honest and tell him that this class was hard for me and that this test helped me learn.

Harrey is struggling in school. My husband finally sees this. He was with him for about 1/2 hour in addition to the 1/2 hour homework he had done earlier.

Ronn got a 'C' in reading. I did not reprimand him or tell him to study more. He studied hard for this test and that was his grade. I told his grade school that I was concerned about his reading skills but he was gettings 'A's' until last year. 'C' is acceptable and I will be hard pressed to tell them that he is having trouble.

Tomorrow I have school. I hope to do well on my quiz.

Clumsy Oaf and a bunch of circle talk

I have these clogs. They're not really clogs. They're croc knock-offs. Herman Munster shoes with no treads on the bottom.

It snowed a little, maybe an inch and I had running around to do last night. Pick one up here, feed three, take another to Cub Scouts, run back to greet our guests.

I fell. Twice. On the ice. On my right hip.

I'm ok. Sore. I was supposed to go with my family to see a basketball game but my dear husband will be taking them. The older two are not happy about going. Ronn is anxious about doing a new thing but my daughter...

Daughter got her monthly friend. Oh, joy. It didn't occur to me why she was so ornery until I thought about it. Poor kid. I told my husband we have to look forward to this every month. He aske what he should do and I told him not to laugh at her and to steer clear.

In the meantime, I'm without a vehicle so I'll put a big old roasting chicken in the oven and type up my notes from school.

I'm not a type A person, not really. I don't think. Anyway, I type my notes so that I can READ them and as I go over them I'm learning. Plus, our teacher lets us have them for the quizzes.

Off to expand my gray matter!

Weekend Update

I should be cleaning house, writing, or almost anything other than being on the internet.

Tonight the pastor and his family is coming over so we can go over what music we will be doing in March. We may be getting a new worship leader. I'm not sure what that means for my husband and I as we have been doing it for a year now. I know that we are working hard to get the music to be better than it is. The music is not as dreadful as it was--it was terrible. Now we're merely mediocre-

We have Ronn in a youth group. I had many reservations about it, especially gym and game time. Ronn is overly competitive and has been known to melt down during gym. I was told that he had a great time and did very well. The topic was timely to the group. Our pastor talked about loneliness and how he envisioned a youth group where people would be accepted for who they are and not their appearance. One of Ronn's friends, who is a girl, has had a hard time socially and she loved it. You have no idea how great that is.

Tomorrow, morning "life skills," "blessing," (aka chores), social skills group and then we're off to see a basketball game. Not the Bulls. It's with Cub Scouts and I took a chance to check it out. As a family we rarely do anything so I'm hoping it will be fun.

Sunday, church, of course, and then to a Superbowl party in the evening. I can't wait.

Hope you have a great weekend.

Band

My daughter and my oldest son performed in a band concert. Hermionie played the flute and had a little speech.

My oldest played keyboard and helped with the percussion section of beginning band; Hermionie is in beginning band, along with other 5th graders.

They were wonderful. Will post pictures later.

Tuesday Ten

1 Busy week again. Tomorrow Wednesday is as follows:

Take Ronn to school at 7:30am

Pick Up Ronn and Hermionie and take them to orthodontist at 8:20am

Bring them back to their respective schools.

Go to bible study.

Go grocery shopping with senior friend and drop her off.

Go out to lunch with some Girl Scout employees*

Get kids and take them to school for band practice

Make some kind of dinner, homework for kids,

Then at 7pm, Ronn goes to youth group and we have worship practice.

After we get home, my husband and I will become one with the couch, pass out and drool before going to bed.

2 *My dear daughter and I are not involved in Girl Scouts, per se. Our church is partnering with them so that we can establish some good ties in our community.

3 Band concert on Thursday. Ronn will be playing with the Jazz Band and Hermionie will be playing flute with beginning band.

4 Hermionie is frustrated because she loves band so much and many other people that are in it don't. I told her to relax.

5 Dear husband and I are having discussions about Harrey, our youngest. My husband is coming to terms with Harrey's academic problems. Me too.

6 My goal is to love my house. I have had a love/hate relationship with this building since we bought it 14 almost 15 years ago. It belonged to my mom and dad and unfortunately we have boundary issues.

They left everything and they think that they can do whatever they want with what's left here--but I cannot. I have let this go on for too long.

7 I pray that I will not do the same with my children.

8 As a result of this issue, I am a big tosser. I love to throw things away.

9 #8 does not include papers.

10 Friday the pastor and his family are coming over so we can discuss the music in March. Saturday, we're going out to a basketball game, I think. Something like that. I insist that we all go as a family. As they get older, things will be more splintered. I want to do things together as much as we can.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell

I woke up from a nightmare this morning.

Johnny Depp, dressed like Benny from Benny and Joon, and I were riding on a bus. I think he followed me on the bus or something like that but I don't remember.

He and I were riding on a bus and I knew that he was staring at me. I was terrified. He was sitting towards the back of the bus. So I got off near a local hospital. I was walking down the street, which was lined with store front stores. I saw him get off the bus and the bus pulled away. He walked towards me with a limp.

I knocked on the business doors but everything was closed. Suddenly a woman opened a door and ran in. I could see that he was coming towards me and I had to hide so I went into the store with the woman.

I watched her run ahead and disappear in the darkeness.

In this store there were clothes racks like the one in the picture above but the store was in darkness like night. And the racks were filled with wedding dresses.

I couldn't hide in the racks so I found a changing room and hid in there. Only the changing room did not have a door, it had a curtain. I hid in the darkest corner of that changing room as I could manage but noticed the curtain was moving slightly. I knew that he would find me because the curtain was moving. I reached out to make it stop.

Then I woke up.

Tuesday Ten

1 I found out Harrey has been eating Children's rapid dissolve tylenol. Not all at once, thank God.

2 I think I lost about 5 years of my life finding this out.

3 If you ever have trouble borrowing sorrow from tomorrow, let me know. I'm an expert. I could teach a class.

4 My past weekend:

Fri; after school, dance class for Miss, dropped off Ronn for movie night at church and Harrey had pinewood derby (Kirwood Derby) at Cub Scouts. All between 5:15-5:45pm.

Sat; DH and Harrey at church all a.m. to dig up church's front lawn, Ronn had social skills group, and at 5pm I dropped off Hermionie to her Girl's church club for 50's night-fundraiser, where we ate dinner.

It was also DH's birthday so he got to stay home and rest.

Sun; church until 1pm (we're the worship leaders and we don't have the luxury of roadies), quick lunch, off to another pinewood derby with Harrey with Awana this time, back just in time to take Ronn to his junior high group.

7 It took me 3 hours to do 3 pages of homework and I'm still not done.

8 The next few pages will be much easier.

9 The children were surprised that I have school today, during the day, while they are in school.

10 I do nothing all day but eat bon bons. ha

I started doing Wii-Fit each day. Gotta get this weight off. Yesterday, I faced the sum of all fears and found out how much I actually weigh. In spite of the number, I did not disintergrate and crumble into the dust. I've faced it. With prayer and action, that number will go down.