Each year when the weather turns, our family writes down their best guess on when we’ll get our first snow. The winner gets $50 to spend on something for the family. Last year, Ames won and bought a red metal sledding disk. Haddie won today. Maybe I can convince her to take me to dinner.
Tonight began tech week. Our run of seven Nutcracker shows begins this weekend. We were in the theater, all six of us, until 10pm on a school night. I could not stop crying, the tears starting over each time I saw my kid or someone else’s kid present their hard work on stage. This is something else.
Ames joined the tech crew this week. Chris is editing music, shooting photos, and dancing as a Party Dad. I am delivering food and pinning hair and I cannot believe I get to do this with these people.
It’s taken me nearly two decades to figure out where I fit in as a mom of children who attend public school. Enter the academic policy committee, a parent-and-teacher committee whose main job is to hire (or fire) a charter school’s principal and help set the vision and direction of and for the school. I am having a blast, feeling both alive and at home in my bones serving in this way.
We ventured into a new era of parenting tonight, after receiving a mildly concerning behavior report regarding my twin daughters. We used the feelings wheel and walked the fine line between you should not care what people think and also reputation affects future opportunity. There were tears and hugs and written apologies and a plan for a fresh start. During the long and emotional evening, we interrupted by a phone, a local kid wanting to apologize for something something unrelated but which also affected said twin daughters. I love parenting tweens in this town.
Nesting for winter! Every few months, I move furniture and switch out art and quiet the loudest spaces in our home to prepare for the next season. Thank you, Myquillyn.
It’s true, what they say about the unusual strength and motivation associated with women attempting to move furniture alone, but add four kids and I’ve got myself a whole home design team. Chris is out of town, so… we did some things last night.
I ran back and forth between our town’s rotary health fair and our town’s Nutcracker rehearsal all day, one held in the high school gym and the other in the theater. Then we came home and giggled a little and watched the Hornets almost beat the Nets.
