Outside on our deck, I am smelling the wonderful scents of various grills going. Ours, is not one of them! Dash is still in Manhattan with Mr. L.
Besides the fact that I completely bombed at "facilitating" Sunday School today, it's been a rather quiet day in our home. The kids are diligently cleaning their rooms. This simply means that their rooms look much worse now then they did a few hours ago.
A few hours ago I said, "I'm going to lay down for a little while, you need to get your clean laundry and fold and put it away." I added, "I'll be checking." Mr. Literal said "So, does that mean my clothes in the drawers need to be folded?" I replied with "yes".
Apparently he took this mission on full heartedly because an hour later when I got up he was on his bed with all his clothes piled high. Dresser drawers piled next to the bed starting to be filled. Now, he's sorting out jeans with holes (to be cut into shorts) and long sleeve shirts so he can make more room for what he has.
N was inspired I assume by her brother and she said "I haven't cleaned my closet out in a LONG time." She also cleaned out from under her bed, guess where her library book was that she thought she was going to have to pay for!
I've been pretty much bored all day. I guess I could have in theory "deep cleaned". But what fun is that? The house itself isn't that bad, the laundry is pretty much caught up and I'm too tired to care about the rest.
I haven't had many "deep" thoughts on my blogs lately. I don't know if that's because I stopped thinking deep or if I'm just finding it easier to share the more surface stuff. I guess I could point out that while I had a difficult time balancing my Sunday School failure, I started feeling like I was the only abnormal person in the world. Like everyone else would just move on, no big deal right? But after talking to the kids we kind of decided that 1. I am tired, so my "failure" is magnified in my mind and 2. They are the same way. Sometimes they can take a hit and keep going as if it's not a big deal and sometimes it sets them back for a little while, just a little harder to get over.
I guess what I learned the most today is, if I'm going to coach my kids to not get hung up on what they aren't successful at, then I too should learn to cut myself some slack. We can't all be Dash's, Dust's, Forrests, and so I guess I'll leave the "big kids" to them and I'll stick to the younger ones. But at least I tried, you can't fail if you don't try, right?!
Captains blog--Sunday, 21st of May, 2006
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N found out tonight that Mom watches star trek sometimes. She's having a difficult time with that.
Oh how wonderfully complicated :-)
It gets worse ... I'm now finding out that she used to watch TNG, DS9 and Voyager WHILE I WAS WORKING nights at MCI.
.... And she used to watch TOS late nights when she was a kid.
And she mentioned Tuvok - BY NAME! - when trying to remember Janeway's cook (Neelix).
No wonder she never wants to watch Star Trek on Spike TV .... she's already seen them all.
OMG!!!!!!
I was going to say that I thought I was reading Dash's blog for a moment there.
You're no more abnormal than I am, if that's saying anything. I can't teach worth a lick (is that a real phrase?), but I can introduce a topic for discussion and I don't mind it if someone challenges me in class. That always got me through Love's Command. :)
Welcome to my world. I would never teach Loves Command with some of those people in there. Somehow, I feel my lame attempts at teaching or facilitating are better received among younger people. But most of my lessons are trainwrecks, but they are fun.
If only they had challenged me! :) I was the substitute teacher on the last day of school! I couldn't keep their attention. So we just closed in prayer early and went straight to the "fellowship!" They didn't seem to mind! :) :)
In response to dash...I mentioned Tuvok by name AND then I went on to bring up "the cook" I had forgotten a lot of the names, thank goodness you were here to remind me of them! ;)
And of course I liked the shows, they were cheesy, predictable, and oh yeah--they had cool gadgets from the future! :)
When 2nd service got out, I noticed that the class was empty when walking by. I am sure you did fine. Everyone loves getting out early.
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