Friday bullets, April 16, 2021

It's felt like a very full week followed by a very full weekend.
  • I took H. to get her first Covid vaccine today!
  • This weekend is our Greek feast and play. L. is making sure that everyone is working on rehearsing whether they want to or not. Today, she made everyone help her make programs for it. Telling you that in the actor bios in the program Y. is recorded as saying, "I didn't want to be in this play, but I had to anyway," tells you everything you need to know about how the two narrators (Y. and L.) are getting along over this.
  • The masks are all painted and they have been rehearsing with them all week.
  • I promised Y. that I would not video the performance. Note that I have no control over what her older siblings choose to do with their phones.
  • And tonight, I had a brief insight into what is going on with Y. and the world of theater. Tonight she told me that she wanted me to change one of the lines about her character because she didn't want anyone saying that about her (Y.). We had a brief chat about the difference between the actor and the character. The line is staying.
  • I will be very glad when all of this is over... for a variety of reasons.
  • My horse classes have started again. This could be a reason why I felt as though I had so much less free time this week. It's not the classes themselves so much. I enjoy teaching them and they don't take that much time. It has been the prep work that has been one of those things that takes far longer than you expected, so everything falls by the wayside until it is done. I think it is all done now, thankfully. I can clean up my mess and get the rest of life back under control.
  • The math routine has successfully been re-entered and life, math-wise, was quite calm here this week.
  • I only have two more sessions of my class left and I'm kind of sad. It has been a great experience. I do still have about eight more hours of Zoom coursework and homework to complete, including a video-ed session with a "client". There is still quite a bit more work to do, but the end is coming up quickly.
  • Today I learned that Java likes to play with water coming out of the hose. She doesn't really care to have it sprayed on her, but she likes to put her mouth over the stream of water. Between that and splashing with her nose in the stock tank, she was pretty entertaining as I waited for the stock tank to fill.
  • J. is still working out in the shed, and is enjoying having a little bit of separation between work and home.
  • P. makes the long drive home tomorrow!! I'm not sure when she will get here, much will depend on what time she can leave. 
  • I realized today that we have just 45 days until TM ships out to boot camp. I'm afraid that this coming and going of children is what our lives are going to be looking like for the foreseeable future.
  • D. accepted the admissions offer from Denison University. He'll be heading out there this fall. 
  • Despite what the weather forecast had predicted, today felt a tiny bit warm. We were able to have teatime outside again today.
  • Current events make me equal parts irate and devastated, all the while feeling powerless to make any sort of beneficial change. Black lives matter. I truly do not understand why this should even need to be pointed out, yet clearly it does.
  • J. and I have quite a few world music DVD's that we like to have on while we are cooking dinner. For our Greek feast, I ordered a couple of disks of Greek music. (Yes, I still prefer discs. Yes, my children laugh at me.) They turned out to be really good, so they will now be added to the cooking music line-up.
  • After last night's upset, R. ended up having a good day today despite having to go to a doctor's appointment.
  • K. has promised me to build famous Greek buildings out of Lego for our table centerpiece.
  • We have moles in our yard. I'm not quite sure what one does about moles in the yard. The dirt trails they leave in the grass make me think of scabies trails on skin. This makes me also think that I have not led a typical life.
  • My tiny forsythia bushes we planted last fall are blooming, having survived the winter. I imagine they will get much bigger this year. I was also happy to discover that the three currant bushes we planted a couple of years ago are still alive. We put them a little off the beaten path in our yard, and sometimes (okay, a lot of the time) I forget they exist.
  • G. discovered that DuoLingo has Greek, so after I do my time on it, she has been using it to learn modern Greek. Since she is using my account on my phone, it does help keep my points up.
And with that, it is late, so I'm going to head to bed Good night, all!

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