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Over scheduled

So as you know, I grew up in a very small town. In fact it was so small, it only had one stop light. And, it didn't even have that stop light until I was in high school.

Anyway, that said, there weren't tons of activities to be involved in. At least that I am aware of. There were no winter swimming lessons because the town only had an outdoor pool, those kinds of things.

So the fact that we have our son in so many things is crazy. He is booked Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night. Currently, my husband is looking into starting the winter t-ball indoors so that would tie up Wednesday nights as well.

For the record, my son isn't even 5. To me this all seems a bit excessive. My husband doesn't think so. But I didn't grow up in this kind of environment. Anyone have some insight?

Home Alone

So tonight I am home alone. Sonny is out of town for work and the boys are staying at Grandma and Grandpa's. It's really weird to be here in total silence. I almost don't know what to do with myself. I mean, I don't have to pick up all the toys on the floor if I don't want to, because no one will see them until I come home again and pick them up. It's up to me. It's just strange because it reminds me of the days when it was just me to worry about and that seems so long ago that it almost freaks me out. Maybe I will go do some stuff and stop freaking out about how quiet it is here tonight. Maybe I will just enjoy the silence.

Random thoughts

So, I was thinking about my former boss and how she got fired. I think that it was something that probably inevitable. But then I was looking online at school board meetings minutes from meetings leading up to her being fired.

The ironic thing that I keep thinking about is the fact that at one of her later meetings that she was at, she got upset with the board for not taking a vote on whether or not she could bring her dog(s?) to work when she was there and no one else was. The actual minutes said that she "demanded a vote". Like she gets to demand things. I wondered to myself if that was really the reason she was let go, because she said that if she was going to work a 14 hour day and no one was there, she was bringing her dog(s?) to work. That would be funny. At least to me it would be.

The other thing I was thinking about was the television show "I Shouldn't Be Alive." Has anyone seen this show? Last night I watched an episode about these two guys that got stranded in the Alps. They were there like 4 or five days before the first blizzard subsided and rescue came, but rescue couldn't save them because of the updraft from the mountain so they had to stay and wait more. On day 7, they were rescued, except in the time between the first appearance of the helicopter and the second, one of the guys dies from hypothermia and the other lost his limbs to frostbite. I can't shake thinking about that. It's truly an example of "What a difference a day makes."

Old Clothes

At what point does someone have to throw something away? A couple weeks ago, after the holidays actually, I got a couple new shirts, and as a result, I threw a couple into the donation bag because they didn't really fit anymore. When we went to Good Will to drop them off, I remembered that I had had the one shirt since I was in the sorority. I remembered wearing it with carpenter jeans and a grey cardigan. That made me a little sad and a little nostalgic.

Tonight, when I was trying to lay out some clothes for tomorrow, I came across a sweater that I was given by my ex-fiance's parents as a gift once. I haven't worn it the entire time I have lived in the twin cities, but I still have it. Is it time to donate that?

How about the sweater that I bought on a day when Steph bought the exact same sweater? That sweater hasn't been worn since I had kids, but I can't bring myself to donate that, even though I haven't probably worn that since Lukin was born. I just don't know.

What a difference a day makes

So today, I was driving to school thinking about how calm I was feeling for how close we were getting to the holidays and how I didn't have everything done but I wasn't stressed.

8 hours of teaching later...

I went home totally stressed about everything that still needs to be accomplished. It may have been not getting everything I wanted to get completed taken care of at work. But whatever it was, it made me stressed for the rest of the evening.

December Holidays

So, today I was looking at Kwanzaa Candles (Mishumaa Saba) online so I was ready when, and if, students asked about them. And I found this menorah.com website. Now, I don't participate in the celebration of Hanukkah, and so I found it odd that they had so many different styles. I found it almost mocking when I saw that there were animal ones and different sport ones. I don't get it. I mean I thought it was supposed to be a sacred thing. We don't wrap baby Jesus in a Blue's Clues blanket in the manger scene. You know? It just seemed really weird to me.