8 Days of Happy meme - day 3
Dec. 17th, 2010 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellymellIt might be best that I waited until morning to write this. I could use some happy this morning. I sleept hardly at all last night and the sleep I did get was on a folded up futon because I got squeezed out of bed by Chris and the cat. So, I'm pretty much an animated corpse today. *grumpy yawn*
Yesterday I awoke to no white stuff outside. Drizzly rain, sure, but none of the forecasted ice and no more snow. YAY! Also, words can not express how happy I was to see not only above freezing temps, but actually low 50s!
I got to hang out in Jonah's class for about an hour. Was really fun to see a glimpse of what he does and how he interacts. A couple of kids got really comfortable with me right away. One little girl (who I think is the tallest kid in the class, seriously, she looks like a 6 year old!) and a little boy, EJ, who I've referenced here before. Blake, the little girl, kept asking me to "watch this" and would do some odd thing only a 4-year-old would think to do. EJ, in the midst of playing, would come running up to me and say, "hold this, don't let anyone get it" and put something in my hand, like a phone they were using as a walkie-talkie. As we were getting ready to leave, Blake came up to me and asked, "could we have a playdate sometime?" Knowing I've got all these Monkey's Treehouse passes to use and that the kids are about to be out for 3 weeks over the holidays, I waited around and mentioned it to her mom and we swapped numbers. We're going to shoot for the week between Christmas and New Year's.
I'm proud of myself on that one for two reasons. One, I have a lot of social anxiety and ordinarily would have just paid Blake lip service and told her to have her mom get in touch with me, knowing the likelihood of her following through would be slim. Two, I can pretty much tell right away I'm not going to have much in common with her mom. But Blake and Jonah seem to enjoy playing together and that's really what it's all about. It's sort of hard to get over that as a parent, though. You want to like your kid's friends' parents because you're going to be stuck hanging out with them while the kids play (at least at this age). But sometimes, you just have to recognize when kids really enjoy playing together and make the best of it.
Also, jerk chicken and black beans and rice for dinner. YUM!
Yesterday I awoke to no white stuff outside. Drizzly rain, sure, but none of the forecasted ice and no more snow. YAY! Also, words can not express how happy I was to see not only above freezing temps, but actually low 50s!
I got to hang out in Jonah's class for about an hour. Was really fun to see a glimpse of what he does and how he interacts. A couple of kids got really comfortable with me right away. One little girl (who I think is the tallest kid in the class, seriously, she looks like a 6 year old!) and a little boy, EJ, who I've referenced here before. Blake, the little girl, kept asking me to "watch this" and would do some odd thing only a 4-year-old would think to do. EJ, in the midst of playing, would come running up to me and say, "hold this, don't let anyone get it" and put something in my hand, like a phone they were using as a walkie-talkie. As we were getting ready to leave, Blake came up to me and asked, "could we have a playdate sometime?" Knowing I've got all these Monkey's Treehouse passes to use and that the kids are about to be out for 3 weeks over the holidays, I waited around and mentioned it to her mom and we swapped numbers. We're going to shoot for the week between Christmas and New Year's.
I'm proud of myself on that one for two reasons. One, I have a lot of social anxiety and ordinarily would have just paid Blake lip service and told her to have her mom get in touch with me, knowing the likelihood of her following through would be slim. Two, I can pretty much tell right away I'm not going to have much in common with her mom. But Blake and Jonah seem to enjoy playing together and that's really what it's all about. It's sort of hard to get over that as a parent, though. You want to like your kid's friends' parents because you're going to be stuck hanging out with them while the kids play (at least at this age). But sometimes, you just have to recognize when kids really enjoy playing together and make the best of it.
Also, jerk chicken and black beans and rice for dinner. YUM!
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on 2010-12-17 06:32 pm (UTC)We're both having chicken today... ;)
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on 2010-12-21 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-12-21 04:48 pm (UTC)This time of being forced with unmatched parents is past with us, but now the thing with "the boyfriend" has started with Lisa. They've been dating a year, and it's had a strange impact on our family dynamic. Philipp is probably a few years out on that, but we shall see. Similar problem, but again different.
I'm trying to remember when it tapered off with parents. I think this happened rather recently, when we took them out of the private school. We don't have much to do with any of those parents anymore. Some I miss, but I haven't actually gone out of my way to do anything about it. Heh, Yes.
Kids force others into our lives when they start a social life, I guess. So we're kinda stuck with it forever after that happens.
But you get used to it!
I have yet to describe the blowout that occurred between my Dad and Marty, Lisa's boyfriend. THAT was something I wasn't prepared for, until confronted with it head on. NOT FUN! So much NOT FUN that I did not post on it. Maybe I will, in a catch up. Just to remember...
Hogs!
DROID!
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on 2010-12-21 05:15 pm (UTC)Yikes! Blowout between grandpa and boyfriend! Wow, just... wow. I think I remember you saying he's an Atheist? I can only imagine how it must have gone down.
Yes.
*hogs*
DROID! ;)
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on 2010-12-20 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-12-21 04:33 pm (UTC)