It’s November 14, 41 days until Christmas and 40 days until the Christmas pageant. We have picked out a pageant script and held an organizational meeting, which is an ironic name for the meeting because of the chaos going on in the room with kids crafting and using Legos, parents arriving late and having to step out for various reasons.…
Month: November 2019
Birthday
Today is my 48th birthday. Natalie asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday and I essentially told her I’d like to hide. I don’t care about the age thing at all. Day by day we get older, our bodies and minds change, whatever. But I would rather have this be a secret day where only the family…
Expectations
I get really anxious over expectations. I think through the years I have tried to keep my expectations low about a lot of things so that I wouldn’t be disappointed. But, inevitably, I’m disappointed, or disappointing, sometimes. With the kids, there are frequently the exclamations of “not fair!” And I have to tell them that I try to be as…