 I was chatting with an online friend and apologized for the delays between pm’s. I explained that I was helping to make a tambourine. Today felt like a total wash. I’ve got a headache and it just feels like we laid around all day, but as I wrote it out one thing after another came to mind. Which was originally why I started the blog. Because a lot of days you think, “What did we do today?” If you don’t have need to reflect, I think many days can go by as feeling unaccomplished. Maybe it’s just me. Sometimes all the little moments that make up a day get lost among the big things or the chores.
We went bowling this morning with friends. Someone from our homeschool group suggested it and a ton of kids showed. I think we counted 17 bowlers and 4 toddlers. That’s a whole lot of little people when the bowlers range from 4 to 10. After bowling we came home and made cupcakes. I had promised them we’d make them yesterday and the day just got away from us. So C played wii and D listed to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on audiobook and B measured, mixed and poured into the cupcake holes. Did the whole thing herself. While the cupcakes baked, she made me a picnic lunch to feed her dolls: Kayla, Bollyball and Cutie Pie. Then the decorating began. She has a decorating kit and basically a frosting explosion ensued. Still they did frost them all themselves. And it never hurt anyone to have two cupcakes for lunch. It’s all about balance – some days it’s lean chicken with steamed broccoli, other days it’s cupcakes.
And cupcakes eaten, I was being taught how to play a wii Star Wars game. Not my forte. D ended up shaking his head and taking over. I do fine with the games that use the controller like the object – bowling and tennis, for instance (had fun with tennis last night – both C and B wanted me on their teams so I was playing against myself) – and the ones with the balance board. But get me to ones where I have to remember A, B, Z? I kept throwing things I was supposed to pick up, dropping things I was supposed to shoot. D and I got a very little bit of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone read; it was too distracting with his brother running around.
B found a make-you-own instrument kit we’d never opened. It had bells and cymbals and chimes and instructions on how to string it all together. We made a tambourine and numerous other self invented instruments while I periodically typed responses. Sometimes chatting with a grown up is an amazing thing.
Then it was dinner time. And now they’re off with daddy to go to the lego store. Yesterday was a free build day (the store picks a single item and the kids build it and get to keep it – July was a flag, yesterday was a lobster) and they said they ran out of pieces. Actually the had buckets left but ran out of time. So daddy is off to see if we can at least get instructions to build it ourselves. Cause we certainly have enough legos to build it; we have enough legos to take over the world.
Sometimes it is good to write it all down. It had seemed like an uneventful day until I started typing ….
At the end of our recent 4 day sleepover. D mentioned that we had not finished the big lego Star Wars battleship thingy that C and I had started on his alone sleepover. When I said that it was a shame but that I hadn’t had time to work on it with them. D’s reply was “But what were you doing that you didn’t have time?” I stared blankly and could only come up with the fact that we had three meals a day, I had done a couple loads of laundry and give B a pedicure. Pretty lame, especially since our days were full from the time we got up at 6:30 until 9:00 when I fell into bed. I always plan to note at least some of our activities but in the heat of the moment it slips away. Everyone had a good time so in the long run I guess that’s all that matters. But I must add in reference to the lego project-after C pointed out the portion that I had built by myself, D came to say that I had been the worst lego builder there ever was but that I had done well and he was impressed. High praise indeed from a lego master.