Wednesday, November 15, 2006

So Much To Blog, So Little Time

I used to always blog when the boys were taking their nightly bath - a nice 15-20 minutes that I had to myself and the computer.

Things have changed -- R takes showers now, often in the mornings.

While T takes his bath, R reads to me. Then we continue with our regular night-time routine -- get pjs on, brush teeth, R's allergy meds, books, song, bed. So, you see, my blogging time has disappeared. I have to find a new time for me to blog. I'm working on it....

  • R is doing great in school (he's literally at the top of the class in math, science, reading, and social studies) but he still gets stressed out on Sunday nights. He gets a variety of aches and pains in anticipation of a long 5-day week of school -- poor boy. But, the time that these pains last is much shorter than before -- they last 10-20 mintues now versus the 3-4 hours that they used to last!
  • T is a happy boy and a lot of fun. He still loves dogs, steam trains, and art. As a matter of fact, the other day he and I sat down to so some painting and I asked him what he wanted to paint. "Well, I want to get a really old piece of wood and do an aboriginal painting on it." "Really?" I said, "what is aboriginal painting?" "Oh, it's the kind of art that the aboriginese in Australia do. I saw it on that TV show that I watched with Dad." So he proceded to do this cool art piece using lots of dots -- as he was doing it, he said, "this is kind of like stipling, but bigger." When I asked him when he learned about stipling, he told me that I taught him. Good for me! My camera isn't working right now, when I get it up and running, I'll take a picture of the aboriginal art piece that is on display in our kitchen right now.
  • Both boys are having fun in hockey/skating (remember, T doesn't want to play hockey, but he does want to know how to skate.) R even played goal tender at the last game and had a blast.
  • M and I went to a BNL concert a couple of weeks ago and had a great time. We ran into one of his cousins and she offered us ticketst to a concert in Chicago that is tomorrow night. We got Uncle D and future Aunt J to babysit and we're going! It will be a blast!
  • Today is the first day of deer season, so M is out freezing in the blind that he and Mr H built. Hoepfully he doesn't come home empty handed -- that venison summer sausage we had last year was great!

3 comments:

CaliforniaGrammy said...

Wow - can't believe your Dad beat me to commenting! Great blog . . . can't wait to see the Aboriginal art—what a creative boy that T is (I think he takes after his Grammy with his nothing-to-it-but-to-do-it attitude).

Your standard blogging time has been interrupted but I'm glad you've found a few minutes to squeeze in a good update.

And I'm thrilled R's allergy meds plus his new glasses and sessions are helping him. He's such a brilliant and great kid.

You scored in the BNL concert with a "built in" baby sitter. I know you'll have a blast.

Venison Summer Sausage . . . yummo?

Aunt Patty said...

Good to have the update, and nice to hear all the good news about both those dear boys! Pretty sharp and creative those two are!! I don't even know what stippling is!! Will have to look it up. What a riot !!

SeattleS said...

I really hope that I will get to meet these two creative guys sometime!
BNL? I love BNL! They put on a great show...that is, if we are talking about the same "ladies"...
I, too, would like to see the aboriginal art shots once you get the camera going again.
And btw - I hear ya about the lack of blogging time! :-)