Beginning the Week with Celebration
This past Sunday was my spring concert for the youth orchestra I conduct. They played a good concert, and I was proud of them. Another part of that celebration is that my Monday evening rehearsals are over until next fall. I will miss the kids and the musical outlet of leading them in rehearsal, but I won't miss the busyness of Monday before the rehearsal: planning orchestra, prepping dinner for M and the girls, and trying to find 10 minutes to get myself showered and presentable.
Perhaps the bigger celebration is that L has slept through the night three nights in a row. We're talking sleeping straight through with no wake ups from 7 PM to 6 AM. I am absolutely high on energy. I feel like I could run around the block twenty times and then lift a dump truck. After a rough time last week with teething, I'm SO happy-- and so is L. We're both back to our wonderful selves after a full week of being grouchy.
Another celebration is a lovely weekend I spent with my mother and sister. On a whim they invited me to Concord this weekend to visit the Louisa May Alcott homestead and spend the night with them in the Colonial Inn there. The scenery was beautiful and it was so interesting to learn about Alcott's life, her house, and the history of Concord in general. We also visited the place where the "shot" was "heard 'round the world" and the Revolutionary War began. It's actually quite a beautiful, tranquil place. I can't thank those ladies enough for such a lovely little getaway, and M for holding down the fort here at our homestead in my absence.
Lately I've been "celebrating" N's love for arts and crafts. (This is a bit of a stretch to include under the celebration theme, but I had to do some bragging.) One of her favorite activities is to "make" as she calls it-- a term that includes any kind of drawing, painting, crafting, etc. She likes the stories at library story time, but her favorite part is definitely the craft at the end. After each story she says, "And now it's time for craft!!" to which the librarian replies, "Not yet, N." (We have a very patient librarian.)
We bought her a pair of safety scissors recently and she entertained herself for an hour-- no exaggeration-- just cutting paper.
She helped me cut the skirt and tried for a long time to blow up the balloon for me. Here's N moving like an emu with the Wiggles:
Her drawing skills have increased, too. Here's a book that she made at the library, which is a pretty typical drawing of hers these days (eyeballs within eyeballs):
One day recently she handed me a very detailed face, complete with ears, eyebrows, and a tongue. Of course I don't know what happened to it. I'll hang on to the next great face drawing I receive.
Now that it's spring here, I've been the happy recipient of many dandelion bouquets. I know that every mother must get these from her two-year-old, but it's still pretty sweet.
I also have to mention L's first real word (besides Mama and Dada): "Oooooh-kay!"
Happy week to all!
Perhaps the bigger celebration is that L has slept through the night three nights in a row. We're talking sleeping straight through with no wake ups from 7 PM to 6 AM. I am absolutely high on energy. I feel like I could run around the block twenty times and then lift a dump truck. After a rough time last week with teething, I'm SO happy-- and so is L. We're both back to our wonderful selves after a full week of being grouchy.
Another celebration is a lovely weekend I spent with my mother and sister. On a whim they invited me to Concord this weekend to visit the Louisa May Alcott homestead and spend the night with them in the Colonial Inn there. The scenery was beautiful and it was so interesting to learn about Alcott's life, her house, and the history of Concord in general. We also visited the place where the "shot" was "heard 'round the world" and the Revolutionary War began. It's actually quite a beautiful, tranquil place. I can't thank those ladies enough for such a lovely little getaway, and M for holding down the fort here at our homestead in my absence.
Lately I've been "celebrating" N's love for arts and crafts. (This is a bit of a stretch to include under the celebration theme, but I had to do some bragging.) One of her favorite activities is to "make" as she calls it-- a term that includes any kind of drawing, painting, crafting, etc. She likes the stories at library story time, but her favorite part is definitely the craft at the end. After each story she says, "And now it's time for craft!!" to which the librarian replies, "Not yet, N." (We have a very patient librarian.)
We bought her a pair of safety scissors recently and she entertained herself for an hour-- no exaggeration-- just cutting paper.
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| This is a paper cutting party she had with Daddy one afternoon (the frame was cut by M, of course) |
Today I finally found some crepe paper at the store so that we could make an emu costume like the Wiggles (ah, the hyper TV shows that you swore you'd never let your children watch, and now that they love them so much you can't say no... seriously though, these Wiggles have grown on me):
She helped me cut the skirt and tried for a long time to blow up the balloon for me. Here's N moving like an emu with the Wiggles:
Her drawing skills have increased, too. Here's a book that she made at the library, which is a pretty typical drawing of hers these days (eyeballs within eyeballs):
One day recently she handed me a very detailed face, complete with ears, eyebrows, and a tongue. Of course I don't know what happened to it. I'll hang on to the next great face drawing I receive.
Now that it's spring here, I've been the happy recipient of many dandelion bouquets. I know that every mother must get these from her two-year-old, but it's still pretty sweet.
I also have to mention L's first real word (besides Mama and Dada): "Oooooh-kay!"
Happy week to all!
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