Am I cute or what?
Today was a little convoluted. A mixed up Monday in some ways. I think part of the problem was that I tried to fit too much into the day. In our 365 days of celebration and praise book the day was Boy Scout Birthday (yesterday actually but I was using it today). We have been doing a lot of cub scout and girl scout things lately anyway and I tried to fill in a few blanks that the kids needed towards badges. I'm big on tying things together but all that resulted in today was a big knot of confusion! The kids are using a learn to play guitar DVD and also both Hayley and the boys had a few loose ends in music requirements for scouts AND I had some musical things I wanted to show the kids. It all seemed to go well together but all the parts were interesting to the kids so it all took longer. For instance in some cases we needed to listen to 1 or 2 samples of a musical genre but Tristan loves singing so wanted me to keep playing more samples of folk music and historical music. Also I had found a video online of John Williams conducting an orchestra in a medley of his Star Wars music. The boys were all so surprised and wanted to watch it again and again. Seeing the Star Wars music played by an orchestra gave it a whole different light to the kids and they were fascinated.
So it was a musical Monday but also a mixed up Monday. A neighbor who is a friend of Bobby's stopped by early and wanted Bobby to help him with something and he also wanted to help cut some of our wood. He also wanted the boys to help and so I lost a couple kids for a time and at other times we could hardly hear ourselves think since the chainsaw was right outside roaring away! It's great to have help but Bobby hadn't planned on this and it messed up his plans for the day a little too.
To add to the confusion the DVD player was acting up again and we ended up having to play the guitar DVD on my laptop! Not exactly a big screen. In some ways it was an ok day, we did get a lot done but not everything I'd planned. I had a headache too, maybe due to the fact that the Eastenders Christmas show was on last night and it went very long! We get Eastenders about 6 weeks after it's aired in the UK. We also get a week's worth all at once. Christmas week out there is something like 6 or 7 episodes, rather than the usual 4. So that meant rather than it being on from 9PM-11 PM it was on from 9PM-12:30 AM! I'm not much of a night owl and that it late for me. It was fun to see nasty Nick Cotton back...Happy Christmas Ma!
Hopefully tomorrow will be less crazy. We have two busy weekends in a row coming up so I wouldn't mind if the weekdays stay calm and relaxed.
2 comments:
As you will probably have guessed, his reappearance is NOT good news.{g} A protracted story line which will shock you.
The current story line is about abortion (again). It's disturbing Grace terribly, but she HAS to watch. It has all the fascination of a train wreck.
I'm disapointed to hear they're running an abortion storyline again. Of course nasty Nick could not really have changed. Oh well we were hoping for the best and expecting the worst!
We just keep wondering when there will finally be a Christmas time at Eastenders where every family is happy and nobody dies or has some sort of tragedy. I guess I shouldn't hold my breathe for that one!
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