On Seth’s plate
this week (besides, you know, that regular –very time consuming - job he has and this drama class he's teaching)
was the big annual yard sale our church hosts every spring to support our
upcoming mission trip to Sacred Road on the Yakama Indian Reservation. Seth has
gone the last three years, but this year he is leading the trip. He’s had all
sorts of things to do in that role (monthly meetings, coordinating with the
other teams going the week we’re going, delegating responsibilities for the
trip, finalizing the roster for the trip, etc.), but heading up this yard sale
is one of the biggest efforts because it provides a good 50% of the needed
funds. I helped with some of the coordination but needed to stay home with the
boys during the sale. I think Seth was there for 3-4 hours night and 9
hours on Saturday? But they made a decent amount of money and it didn’t rain,
so we were pretty grateful.
My mom came over, randomly, after garage saling and finished planting the starts she'd brought over the day before. And then Emily pulled up too! We rarely get visitors and to have two people stop by in one day was especially unusual. It was nice to have the diversion because I'd been feeling a bit discontent, staying home while Seth was off "gallivanting" at the church garage sale.
Sunday night church hosted a documentary film regarding public school education in the US and though Seth and I weren't planning on going, my mom insisted we go and that she be allowed to watch the boys. We weren't really thinking through our babysitting needs the rest of the week or we wouldn't have "used up" some babysitting on the film. We pretended it was a date and had a good conversation about education, so it wasn't really waste, but later on in the week when we were so overwhelmed it was hard not to begrudge that time.
Monday morning I babysat for my friend so she could go to one of her prenatal appointments without her four year old, then taught some lessons. The boys and I played at the park by Seth's school for a while too.
On Tuesday, in addition to teaching, I also had to make several trips to chauffeur Seth or things he needed around, because we're sharing one car and because the baseball bus left without him and because he'd left his keys at home and because he needed me to take one of his workers to a moving job. I drove at least 100 miles and did lots of backtracking and double crossing.
Seth has been substitute teaching a bit, before his drama class, but this week it actually worked out well for him to have so much time sitting at his computer. He likes getting the hours, since he's already at the school for seventh period, but it's been disappointing that he really doesn't get to do much teaching. It's really more babysitting than anything else. Perhaps once the teachers get to know him better and know what he is capable of he will get to do more than administer worksheets?
Our last day of BSF was this week, sadly. (Well, for this year, that is; it will start up again in the middle of September.) It is such a wonderful fit for all three of us and we will miss it greatly this summer.
My mom came over, randomly, after garage saling and finished planting the starts she'd brought over the day before. And then Emily pulled up too! We rarely get visitors and to have two people stop by in one day was especially unusual. It was nice to have the diversion because I'd been feeling a bit discontent, staying home while Seth was off "gallivanting" at the church garage sale.
Sunday night church hosted a documentary film regarding public school education in the US and though Seth and I weren't planning on going, my mom insisted we go and that she be allowed to watch the boys. We weren't really thinking through our babysitting needs the rest of the week or we wouldn't have "used up" some babysitting on the film. We pretended it was a date and had a good conversation about education, so it wasn't really waste, but later on in the week when we were so overwhelmed it was hard not to begrudge that time.
Monday morning I babysat for my friend so she could go to one of her prenatal appointments without her four year old, then taught some lessons. The boys and I played at the park by Seth's school for a while too.
This week I had a lot of lessons. Well, my usual amount, but a bit more
spread out, so it ended up taking up a lot more time than it does most weeks.
Until we find the time to decide what to do about the van (necessary repairs?
Sell it and buy a new vehicle?) we’re sharing the car, so we’ve had to be a bit
creative about our schedules. It’s actually worked out really really well,
considering the timing. And we’ve actually seen each other this week, because
we’ve been driving each other places. That sounds a bit Pollyanna (ridiculously
optimistic) but it’s been really nice. If we had our own vehicles this week we
probably wouldn’t have really seen each other. And Seth definitely wouldn’t
have seen the boys. So this way we’ve been able to chat and Seth has told the
boys lots of Superhero stories.
On Tuesday, in addition to teaching, I also had to make several trips to chauffeur Seth or things he needed around, because we're sharing one car and because the baseball bus left without him and because he'd left his keys at home and because he needed me to take one of his workers to a moving job. I drove at least 100 miles and did lots of backtracking and double crossing.
Seth has been substitute teaching a bit, before his drama class, but this week it actually worked out well for him to have so much time sitting at his computer. He likes getting the hours, since he's already at the school for seventh period, but it's been disappointing that he really doesn't get to do much teaching. It's really more babysitting than anything else. Perhaps once the teachers get to know him better and know what he is capable of he will get to do more than administer worksheets?
Our last day of BSF was this week, sadly. (Well, for this year, that is; it will start up again in the middle of September.) It is such a wonderful fit for all three of us and we will miss it greatly this summer.
I was surprised and so pleased when Seth offered to take the boys out on a Daddy date Thursday morning. I desperately needed the time alone to finish sending in some information about the ERC team to Sacred Road and to finish our quarterly taxes. There's nothing like having three big "projects" due on the same day. They went to IHOP and, it was reported, that they had a great time. Ezra came home saying he'd had the "best pancakes of his life" and Isaac kept talking about "bueberry 'rup" (blueberry syrup).
As I mentioned last week, Seth's drama students had their Fine Art Night performance this week. They performed selections from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Miller's The Crucible, and did a wonderful job.
We got to relax all day Friday, which was lovely. Well, the boys didn't really relax, but what's new? Isaac even lugged his trike up onto the couch in order to stand on it in my sight.
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