Today In History

Today was the first day of February. Did you flip your calendar page? I flipped mine yesterday when I was doing all my planning and plotting for this new semester. My daughter thought this was so inappropriate --to flip the page on the day before. Lovely K is reaching that age where she has an opinion about everything. Sigh. Isn't it odd that I have one child wearing braces and rolling her eyes and another in diapers wanting to eat every ten minutes? So when my oldest is going off to college, my youngest may be losing his first teeth.

Today was also the six week mark: Baby J is six weeks old today. He is getting more interactive, and that's a good thing because if he has another day like today where he fusses all. day. long. he is going to have to be interacting with someone else. No, of course not, but you know how you have those thoughts when you are reaching your limit. Six weeks seems like a long time in a way. I go Wednesday for my six week check up with my OB. I should be released from all my restrictions. I'm sure I'll blaze a trail to the gym right after that appointment...with a Moo Latte from
Dairy Queen in my hand...

Today was also Sweet T's first day of officially doing his preschool work. I have told him for some time that he'd be starting this after Christmas, after Baby J was born, when he turned four. He had not forgotten. He was ready. He took it so seriously. It was so sweet when he was sitting beside me, coloring this page in his new workbook with great care and singing the theme from Scooby Doo. He would have done things the whole time that Lovely K and Big E were doing school work. What a change to have a child asking what they could do next rather than
"Can I have a break?"
After lunch I had him go get his Legos and bring them to the kitchen table. He didn't like this idea until I told him this was part of his school work (and hey, it's preschool--that's manual dexterity and all kinds of cognitive skills) and then he was excited about it and "worked" at it for quite a while. That child is a sponge. Eager to learn, eager to advance, eager to be "big" like his big brother and sister. He works so hard and everything. And I have to say, things come rather easily to him. He's just such an interesting little person.

So we jumped back on the school wagon and the day went well. It wasn't a day loaded down with heavy, vast plans however. We shall see how the rest of the week goes. There's nothing like a Science lesson (from which I can no longer hide) to stop the momentum. But we stayed on course today. Chores got done. The house got picked up. Chickens were tended to. We got several chapters into the new read aloud (the second book about The Borrowers). Supper was fixed. I think all the necessary things got done.

And guess what?
Tomorrow is going to be another day.
What was it that Anne Shirley
(in the Anne of Avonlea series) would say?
"Tomorrow is fresh with no mistakes in it."
Let's see if we can keep from
screwing it up, shall we?