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five random things on a...Tuesday?
Oct. 28th, 2008 08:16 pm1. If you were going as a mad scientist for Halloween, what would you include in your ensemble? So far we have a white lab coat with various scientific notations scribbled on it (E=mc2, the chemical notation for photosynthesis, Planck's constant, some calculus, a diagram of an animal cell, the DNA double helix, etc., as well as some lighter fare, like an alien with "Roswell or bust" and "There IS such a thing as a tesseract.") I didn't find any child-sized Einstein wigs at Walmart, so I think we'll fluff up his hair to look messy. But I can't help thinking he needs more. Like those glasses with the nose and mustache, only he already wears glasses, so it's hard to put fake ones on. Ideas?
2. So once a year the kids (ages 3-12) do the whole church service, and that was this past Sunday. The primary president introduced the program and said that the kids had all written their own parts. (Which means that ours were cooked up fairly recently, as we just moved here.) My littlie gets up to say her part: "I like to play with my family, and my puppy." Um, we have no pets? (Unless you count the Lap Boy.) I asked her if she even knew what a puppy was. "No, Mommy. Was ist ein Puppy?" I think she must have told her teacher in German, and the poor woman wrote down what she thought she heard. "I like to play with my PUPPE (doll)."
3. Is it normal for 3-month-old children to give up on naps? I took the littlie of to playgroup today and was hoping that Lap Boy would fall asleep as he sometimes does when no other kids are around. I try to save that two hours each week with only one child to work on this book. I got as far as spreading it all out on the floor, and on the floor it stayed all day. He isn't sick or sad--he is just AWAKE and he wants to sit up and see things, not lie down and stare at the ceiling.
4. Despite not having basically any uninterrupted time, I do find that my head has more room these days. I miss working with the teen girls, but what with a small baby and a large move, I'm glad to have a break. Since I have a car now, I don't have to shop every day. And the kids all go to school at the same time every day. Concept! So even though I have more kids than I did last year, I feel like I have a lot more time, both temporally and mentally. I do still have stress (DH is still on the market for a tenure-track job, and this was an extremely whopping big expensive move), but I'm realizing that not long ago I was under a lot more stress. Now is the time to tank up on mental reserves.
5. Still, sometimes I daydream of good news and positive surprises. I know I should brace myself for another round of difficulties--in our respective areas of academic interest, DH and I both just keep trying, and haven't quite gotten there yet. I know that chances are slim that things will work out the way we want, and that I should be bracing myself for more disappointments. But some days...I just want to let go and hope, you know?
2. So once a year the kids (ages 3-12) do the whole church service, and that was this past Sunday. The primary president introduced the program and said that the kids had all written their own parts. (Which means that ours were cooked up fairly recently, as we just moved here.) My littlie gets up to say her part: "I like to play with my family, and my puppy." Um, we have no pets? (Unless you count the Lap Boy.) I asked her if she even knew what a puppy was. "No, Mommy. Was ist ein Puppy?" I think she must have told her teacher in German, and the poor woman wrote down what she thought she heard. "I like to play with my PUPPE (doll)."
3. Is it normal for 3-month-old children to give up on naps? I took the littlie of to playgroup today and was hoping that Lap Boy would fall asleep as he sometimes does when no other kids are around. I try to save that two hours each week with only one child to work on this book. I got as far as spreading it all out on the floor, and on the floor it stayed all day. He isn't sick or sad--he is just AWAKE and he wants to sit up and see things, not lie down and stare at the ceiling.
4. Despite not having basically any uninterrupted time, I do find that my head has more room these days. I miss working with the teen girls, but what with a small baby and a large move, I'm glad to have a break. Since I have a car now, I don't have to shop every day. And the kids all go to school at the same time every day. Concept! So even though I have more kids than I did last year, I feel like I have a lot more time, both temporally and mentally. I do still have stress (DH is still on the market for a tenure-track job, and this was an extremely whopping big expensive move), but I'm realizing that not long ago I was under a lot more stress. Now is the time to tank up on mental reserves.
5. Still, sometimes I daydream of good news and positive surprises. I know I should brace myself for another round of difficulties--in our respective areas of academic interest, DH and I both just keep trying, and haven't quite gotten there yet. I know that chances are slim that things will work out the way we want, and that I should be bracing myself for more disappointments. But some days...I just want to let go and hope, you know?
