five unrelated things make a post
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cahn1. A. and I took E to the beach last night (thanks A. for hanging out with us!), and if there is anything better than Ecstatic Child signaling her absolute adoration for the ocean by jumping for joy and screaming with laughter and running ecstatically in and out of the waves and getting all three of us thoroughly wet, I don't know what it is.
2. All three of us got haircuts this weekend, leading to the following exchange:
E: Daddy's hair looks different!
D: Does [E]'s hair look different?
E: Yes.
[beat]
E: Daddy and [E] are the same!
D was totally happy at E's discovery of the syllogism!
3. Choir at My Church Drama in My Head, part #43: The latest, and hopefully last, installment is that Madame Director decided she wanted choir to sing Sunday (the same song we were supposed to sing the Sunday before Father's Day, then Father's Day) on Saturday afternoon, sending out email to the choir at that time asking everyone to show up early Sunday morning to practice. Come Sunday morning, how many people showed up? Predictably, one person on each voice part (except tenors, who fielded three, go tenors, a small group but a loyal one), plus me. The soprano, alto, and bass were all unwilling to sing solo on a part, and I can float parts but not that many, so Mme Director canceled.
However, she appears to have learned from this experience and is scheduling next month's music NOW, which I highly approve of.
4. My parents are visiting. I… think I may have structured my life to include as little stress as possible as a direct reaction to the part where they are both complete stressballs.
5. Apparently next week I get to sub at church for Wonderful Children's Music Director (different woman than choir director), which is making me feel sort of inadequate, because you guys, she is seriously really good and I don't think I can do what she does. Fortunately it's just one week, though. And in August I get to sub one week for my-church choir director, which I will enjoy the heck out of.
2. All three of us got haircuts this weekend, leading to the following exchange:
E: Daddy's hair looks different!
D: Does [E]'s hair look different?
E: Yes.
[beat]
E: Daddy and [E] are the same!
D was totally happy at E's discovery of the syllogism!
3. Choir at My Church Drama in My Head, part #43: The latest, and hopefully last, installment is that Madame Director decided she wanted choir to sing Sunday (the same song we were supposed to sing the Sunday before Father's Day, then Father's Day) on Saturday afternoon, sending out email to the choir at that time asking everyone to show up early Sunday morning to practice. Come Sunday morning, how many people showed up? Predictably, one person on each voice part (except tenors, who fielded three, go tenors, a small group but a loyal one), plus me. The soprano, alto, and bass were all unwilling to sing solo on a part, and I can float parts but not that many, so Mme Director canceled.
However, she appears to have learned from this experience and is scheduling next month's music NOW, which I highly approve of.
4. My parents are visiting. I… think I may have structured my life to include as little stress as possible as a direct reaction to the part where they are both complete stressballs.
5. Apparently next week I get to sub at church for Wonderful Children's Music Director (different woman than choir director), which is making me feel sort of inadequate, because you guys, she is seriously really good and I don't think I can do what she does. Fortunately it's just one week, though. And in August I get to sub one week for my-church choir director, which I will enjoy the heck out of.
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Date: 2013-06-25 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-26 01:32 am (UTC)Hanging out with family is really a wonderful opportunity for reflection and analysis. And sometimes realizing that someone needs to be the person who stops the "after you", "no, after you" dance of scheduling, which... does not seem to be the problem you're having.
Small kids at the beach is one of life's awesome fun things. :-)
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Date: 2013-06-26 02:33 am (UTC)In the past week she's also discovered (or we have discovered her discovering) generalizing from one example. It's pretty awesome.
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Date: 2013-06-26 02:34 am (UTC)And, um, good luck! :)
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Date: 2013-06-26 02:38 am (UTC)