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It has been a busy week at Casa David. Saturday we put out our Halloween decorations. Caroline was thrilled that this year she could really help because she is tall enough to hold the lights while I tape them in place. After getting everything out, we were pleased with the look of it. Creepy during the day and colorful (and creepy) at night.
Sunday, Peter and Caroline went up to SHU to see Ariel’s fall family concert along with Peter’s sister Beth and her daughters. I stayed home because of kitten concerns and good thing too because my stomach decided to rebel against something rather graphically. Not a pleasant day for me at all.
Monday was filled with my usual Monday activities. Monday is my busy day for the week. I have lunch at a friend’s pub and catch up on news and the like. I volunteer at my daughter’s school library. And in the evening, I have my Monday night ladies bowling league.
Tuesday was a catch-up day for a lot of things that had slipped through the cracks. Including food shopping and some things needed for Halloween and the house.
Wednesday was at the school again for the book fair where I ran the cash register and helped kids figure out if they had enough money for what they got. The wrinkle is that last year the tax laws concerning state tax changed in New York State due to Amazon and some other online retailers and now the book fair has to pay taxes on their sales which means that a book that a kid use to be able to get with 5.00 because it was 4.99 is no longer in the cards for them. Which really bites for kids who save their merger allowance to be able to buy a book for them or they have very limited income but the parents scrapped together enough that their kids could buy something. The PTA and the friends of the library do provide books for kids with no pocket money but there is only so much they can do. I stayed a little longer because they were short handed which was fine.
At the end of the school day, we picked up Caroline and went into the city for the road show of America’s Got Talent hosted by Jerry Springer who turned out to be a good MC and a pretty funny comedian in his own right. And who knew that he could sing like Elvis? Caroline’s favorites were Defying Gravity, Prince Poppycock, and the kid dancers Patrick and Anna. The singers she could take or leave. She did wonder why a 10 year old girl would sing Opera rather rock and roll. For me it was a toss up between Poppycock who did a selection from the Barber of Seville and recreated his Queen Bohemian Rhapsody piece and Defying Gravity which is much more impressive in person than on TV. The magician Michael Grasso so needs a Vegas show. He is very good as is his assistant. His showmanship is polished and lovely to watch.
Thursday was another fast paced day. Peter took Day 2 of the Book Fair because I had forgotten that I was chaperoning Caroline’s class to the Long Island Science Center for a class on Bats. I learned a lot about bats and had fun with the children at the science center. I taught a number of them the difference between an open system and a closed system with these very clever ramps and other pieces that had magnets so you could create all kinds of configurations and then see if the marble that you dropped at the top could make it to the cup at the bottom.
Then Thursday evening was the Harvest Dance at the school. It was interesting to see how Caroline has changed over the years. When she was in kindergarten and I took her to the dance, she stayed very close to me unless it was one of her little friends but she didn’t participate that much. In first grade she participated in the group dances more but still kept checking to see if I was there watching her. This year she was into the dance and playing with her friends. There were the rare check-ins but most of the evening she was off on her own playing with her friends.
Today we start to get the comic books ready for the trick or treaters on Sunday. There is a number of things that need to get done before about 4 pm on the 31st. So today is another busy day of things that need to be done. Once I get to Election Day, my life gets a little easier. Or at least that is what I am telling myself.
So that’s the past week. Looking forward to Sunday. Hope everyone has a good weekend.
I am grateful for being able to watch my child grow and learn and all the people who are helping her to do this.
Sunday, Peter and Caroline went up to SHU to see Ariel’s fall family concert along with Peter’s sister Beth and her daughters. I stayed home because of kitten concerns and good thing too because my stomach decided to rebel against something rather graphically. Not a pleasant day for me at all.
Monday was filled with my usual Monday activities. Monday is my busy day for the week. I have lunch at a friend’s pub and catch up on news and the like. I volunteer at my daughter’s school library. And in the evening, I have my Monday night ladies bowling league.
Tuesday was a catch-up day for a lot of things that had slipped through the cracks. Including food shopping and some things needed for Halloween and the house.
Wednesday was at the school again for the book fair where I ran the cash register and helped kids figure out if they had enough money for what they got. The wrinkle is that last year the tax laws concerning state tax changed in New York State due to Amazon and some other online retailers and now the book fair has to pay taxes on their sales which means that a book that a kid use to be able to get with 5.00 because it was 4.99 is no longer in the cards for them. Which really bites for kids who save their merger allowance to be able to buy a book for them or they have very limited income but the parents scrapped together enough that their kids could buy something. The PTA and the friends of the library do provide books for kids with no pocket money but there is only so much they can do. I stayed a little longer because they were short handed which was fine.
At the end of the school day, we picked up Caroline and went into the city for the road show of America’s Got Talent hosted by Jerry Springer who turned out to be a good MC and a pretty funny comedian in his own right. And who knew that he could sing like Elvis? Caroline’s favorites were Defying Gravity, Prince Poppycock, and the kid dancers Patrick and Anna. The singers she could take or leave. She did wonder why a 10 year old girl would sing Opera rather rock and roll. For me it was a toss up between Poppycock who did a selection from the Barber of Seville and recreated his Queen Bohemian Rhapsody piece and Defying Gravity which is much more impressive in person than on TV. The magician Michael Grasso so needs a Vegas show. He is very good as is his assistant. His showmanship is polished and lovely to watch.
Thursday was another fast paced day. Peter took Day 2 of the Book Fair because I had forgotten that I was chaperoning Caroline’s class to the Long Island Science Center for a class on Bats. I learned a lot about bats and had fun with the children at the science center. I taught a number of them the difference between an open system and a closed system with these very clever ramps and other pieces that had magnets so you could create all kinds of configurations and then see if the marble that you dropped at the top could make it to the cup at the bottom.
Then Thursday evening was the Harvest Dance at the school. It was interesting to see how Caroline has changed over the years. When she was in kindergarten and I took her to the dance, she stayed very close to me unless it was one of her little friends but she didn’t participate that much. In first grade she participated in the group dances more but still kept checking to see if I was there watching her. This year she was into the dance and playing with her friends. There were the rare check-ins but most of the evening she was off on her own playing with her friends.
Today we start to get the comic books ready for the trick or treaters on Sunday. There is a number of things that need to get done before about 4 pm on the 31st. So today is another busy day of things that need to be done. Once I get to Election Day, my life gets a little easier. Or at least that is what I am telling myself.
So that’s the past week. Looking forward to Sunday. Hope everyone has a good weekend.
I am grateful for being able to watch my child grow and learn and all the people who are helping her to do this.
