1. I have been meaning to post my bloggy to-do list for BooMama’s Before and After, with accompanying Before pictures, but they have been sitting on my camera for lo these many days, so here is the list without pictures:
- Paint the walls that connect my kitchen, dining room and living room
- Weed the front planter (because even though I swore off weeding, it’s really out of control and embarrassing)
- Hang the wall clock (which sounds easy, except it is all in separate pieces, so there are 15 numbers and the hands, plus the wall has to be painted first.)
The goal is to have these finished by July 25th, and then post the afters.
We’ll see.
2. If you were wondering about the scrapbooking poll, here’s how it broke down:
- 12 of you love scrapbooking and want to see more of it.
- 11 of you don’t do it, but enjoy looking at people’s pages.
- 2 of you hate it and would like it to stay on it’s own page.
3. I apologize in advance to the two of you who hate it, but my next post is scheduled to be about how I totally revamped the way I scrap and fell in love with it all over again.
4. That post will probably come sometime in early 2009 since Audrey has croup, Isaac is back from his Field Exercises and is sick, and Chloe has decided she is 2 and not 5 and is having tantrums.
5. Chloe has her first loose tooth. Any ideas on things to do other than the tooth fairy?
I’ve been taking a couple online scrapbooking classes lately, and have been undecided about whether to post about them in a regular post, or to keep the posts separate on the Scrapbooking page.
So I decided I’d just see what ya’ll prefer. There wouldn’t be a flood of posts, but it is a change from my normal posting topics.
No suspicious bodily fluids at all.
What do you think? If you’re reading in a feedreader, you might want to click over so you can vote in the poll I put up.
In case you were wondering how the musical turned out…
Chloe did end up going back on stage after the big dance ended. She was very reserved at first, but got into it after a few minutes.
And I noticed some friends sitting on the end of an aisle and sent Luke to go sit with them so he could watch the show.
And Audrey was free to run around in back, so everyone was more or less happy.
After the show Chloe was happy, which was a huge relief. It turns out her foot had gotten caught on her skirt, making it fall off.
Being the cry-first-and-ask-questions-later girl that she is, she just started crying hysterically.
Of course, they had to go on with the show, and they couldn’t get her calmed down enough to just go out on stage with the other girls in the middle of the song, but she was able to join them after they all rejoined the choir.
She says that she had fun and wants to do it again.
So I guess mine is the only heart that really got broken.
Have I mentioned that Isaac is gone for two weeks?
And that this week was our church’s Fine Arts Camp?
So from 9-3 every day Chloe has been off at camp, loving every minute of it, but coming home exhausted and cranky.
And Luke and Audrey are exhausted and cranky from having their naps disturbed to pick her up every day.
Which all set the scene nicely for the musical that the kids performed this evening after a long day of rehearsals.
It was really a great show. Grease-inspired with the cutest costumes. There were the main performers, but all the kids got to sing and dance in the choir and each age group got to do one special dance.
Chloe’s special dance was that fruit-hat-on-the-head one. She had the cutest bright pink skirt.
All the kids came out and got in their line to do the dance.
And she was off on the side of the stage crying.
She cried through most of the dance, then disappeared.
And I had no idea why. And I couldn’t find out why.
Because about 20 minutes into the show, which was over an hour, Audrey completely lost control. She couldn’t sit and had no place to play and after juggling her and Luke she finally had enough, threw her pacifier where we couldn’t find it and just started screaming.
So when Chloe’s big song came on I had been outside the theater for 20 minutes, trying to keep Audrey happy and quiet, trying to keep Luke from having a fit because he wanted to go back inside and watch the show, and trying to sneak peeks at the show.
And that was when I started crying.
Not only was I missing Chloe’s first-ever performance, but something was wrong, something was causing her to miss her big part in her first-ever performance and it was breaking her heart and she was sobbing and there was nothing I could do.
And I was handling it all alone.
But I got too distracted by the kittens and forgot to put it up.
Possible titles:
Real Men Wear Pink
How To Know When You Really Love Your Daughter
My Princess Charming
My Husband Is Going To Kill Me
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