Reflections on a Thursday

So far this has been a pretty run of the mill day. 

Jack has given up on getting up with his alarm clock and I have given up caring.  We'll try again next year, and for now it's no big deal to just go and wake him.  It's not like when he was 5 and ABSOLUTELY refused to get out of bed if I asked him too.  That's why he got an alarm clock in the first place...it was easier to let the beeping do the talking instead of my sweet wake up songs. 

I learned the songs from my dad and they TOTALLY annoyed me when I was a kid and now only make me smile.  I have never understood the words to this one: 

Wake up Jacob, daddy shot a bear, shot him right between the eyes and never touched a hair.

I have no idea what that has to do with waking up either but it's what he sang and now I love it, so I'm hoping someday Jack will look back at what is annoying to him and find it makes him smile.

I called John at work, but we talked longer than I thought we would, planning next years vacations.  Katie Anne didn't get a bath, but she's pretty clean if you don't count her fingernails.

I taught my last pre-school of the year today.  This week's theme: oval, 4, bugs and butterflies.  We had a great time singing bug songs, doing bug fingerplays, hiding the fly and letting the frog find it, and making a few crafties.  On Tuesday we did the whole day on the Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Most of the books I read today were by Eric Carle...he sure does love bugs! 

I only have one more year of pre-school and then Katie Anne will go to kindergarten.  I have loved doing preschool and wonder what I'll do when that is no longer on my mind.  Suggestions?

After preschool and lunch, Katie Anne and I went to ShopKo.  I bought only a couple of useful things and a bit of fluff.  It's not smart to go shopping at the beginning of a budget cycle.

I felt a little embarrassed at myself later when I went outside to throw some stuff in the big garbage cans.  An "oversized load" lead car was turning down my street.  I live by a big cement plant and they always have big machines going in and out, but the oversized loads are usually pretty cool.  I got excited when I saw it, thus the embarrassment.  It wasn't anything too cool this time, so bummer.

So, that's a Thursday for you...in about 30 minutes the kids will come crashing through the door and then the excitement starts...make dinner, get John to his Home Teaching, get me to my Visiting Teaching, get the laundry folded, read the papers that came home in the backpacks, put out fires, get jobs done...

That's Life!