The water is off. The furnace is on. We got here at 10pm. Sleeping in beds across the basement. I'll get up soon. 605am. Betty is across the basement and dreaming. She utters in her dream... I reeeaallyyy.... love you.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Just aweful
It's been a horrible day. Miranda volunteered to parent for the branton trip to the zoo. But this evening her and Alice got into it over Alice not wanting to go to volleyball tonight.
I came home to every single person in the house as pissy as possible. Fight fight fight. But I made everyone help with dinner and then eat together. The whole start of the meal I kept talking about how mad I had been all day. Then everyone seemed to start getting better
I've instituted no electronic readers for bedtime reading for a while. It's magical right now. Everyone seems so much calmer and kinder.
Betty reading the lion the witch and the wardrobe.
Alice looking up words in the dictionary.
It's going to end wonderfully tonight. From storming to calm waters.
Gnight.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Graduating, June 28 - 2023
Capitol Hill Elementary was a good choice. I wanted them all to go into Banff Trail but there have been wonderful surprises that came from this elementary. For example principal Johnson that taught us to read to our children. So many problems avoided by turning these children into readers.
Michael fortunately, or not, is the guinea pig. I experience everything with him first. A first parent is always experiencing extremes. The first projects day I was amazed and took so many photos. The others, sometimes I didnt even go.
Probably similarly, his grade 6 graduation was almost more for me. I cried the whole presentation. Who knows if I'm over it now or not.
An hour, maybe an hour and a half. First some songs by the grade 2 kids. Then a song presented by the graduating kids. Finally they got in line and each had a walk across the 'stage'.
The biggest problem with this day, was that his little sister was in the grade 2 class for a song to the graduating kids. Whether by intention or by accident, the children choosing 'try everything' by shakira just fully opened my flood gates. Even now I think about her singing to her older brother that he should go out into the world and 'try everything' and it gets me all torn up.
During the power point presentation every child had a screen to show memorable saying and things about themselves.
A really fancy ice cream shop down the 19th hill in hillhurst had an icecream truck and donated giving everyone an icecream on the graduation day. Much appreciated.
When I tried to do a selfie with everyone on the b ench, I got a really good shot. But I chose the selfie portrait or something. So I only got the most important person in the shot....
And the shot that I did get of everyone on the bench, I successfully got everyone with their eyes closed. Except Miranda, but almost everyone with eyes closed.
Michael the little gentleman.
I used to post for Arta to read. Like I used to take tons of photos and share them with her so that she had these piles of things to look at if she had the time and needed a pick me up. Now that we are so far past the day that we lost her, I'm starting to think that I'll keep doing this. It's not for her anymore. There are other people to share these little memories with. It feels like a shift for me.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
October 1st, a little play date.
Michael is dropped off a Mattias Tsang's house. Michael asked for a play date with his new friend at school. The story comes out that someone in his class has been his lunch eating buddy these first few weeks at school. Mattias told Michael that he's teach Michael how to finish some levels on some game. I dropped him off this morning before volleyball so that he could play with Mattias for a few hours. They live almost outside of the city. A bit of a drive, but same for them driving Mattias to Branton as well....
A new little friend, made on his own, a bit of a new experience. The parents, Ben and Jenny, a nice Korean family. Canadian family I should say, Mattias has a little sister as well. The parents were lovely when I dropped him off.
Now, a little updating in reverse order:
School Photo:
I don't get to 'going to school photo' with Michael now that he walks to school. A few times I've been able to catch him and a take a photo before he leaves. He's so cute.
I've been shooting arrows in the garage for a long time now, as long as two months? The bow started to go to crap, and I figured out it was because the strings had started to fray and get ready to snap. These are two photos of the bow.
I went into Cabelas, they repair for free if you'd bought their 'in house brand' bows. the only negative was that I'd went in, and they'd recommended that I buy a bow string from 'scorpion in manitoba'. That took two weeks to arrive and when I brought it in for repair they put it on and then said... woops, the other string is now fraying'. So another two weeks and $60 for the second string. Then it arrived and I started practicing again. Then the peep sight came out of the main string. So back to cabelas for them to stick the peep back in. I need to get a bow press I suppose. It's starting to get irritating to run over there and then spend an hour over there waiting for them to 'fix' it.
Michael getting a little hair cut last month. He never gets his hair cut but I usually require at least the start of school and then again in a few months. I should start getting him on a two month routine. He's so adorable when he's all cleaned up.
Morning school photos. They've become less of a fight. Everyone knows the routine. If it's your song day you choose the song for the trip to school. Then it's also your day to choose if it's a photo in the car, out of the car, only individually, or no photo at all.
For Michaels birthday I bought about 200 balloons and filled up his room as he was out that evening. He liked the gesture very much. The room is still full of half deflated balloons and it's almost two weeks past.
Alice was almost as excited. She sat beside me and tried to fill balloons quickly with me. She could hardly contain telling him all about it as he came in the door. After he'd been allowed to find the surprise on his own Alice kept brining up how tired her cheeks were and how fun it was to michael. A fun experience for all.
A morning that Betty braided her own hair in the morning. It was adorable with the red died hair. So I asked her to let me take a few photos of the result before school started.
School Photo:
Another photos on the way to school.
The photos of the battery that Miranda put into the car seven years ago. I've had engine light and gas cap warning lights for about six months. Recently the rear hatch wouldn't open either. It's an electrical button to have the trunk pop open.
I changed the battery two hours ago and its now all fixed. The battery was the only problem. Sheesh.
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