I’m a total sucker for the panicky phone calls during which son explains what he has forgotten and desperately needs. Right now. I have left the office and driven home/school to drop off permission slips, shiny Dingle shoes for marching band performances, large boxes of granola bars, signed acknowledgements of test results and homework completed, and boxes of straws for science club experiments. I know I enable. I just have a hard time saying no to him/them. In part because they are trying hard, and they are good students, and they are children.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
daily music
E and J played in a competition at RHS today, and the band progressed to the regionals. Tomorrow they have another performance as well. C played his chanter. I made it through the waltz with little hesitations. Nancy offered me a piano for $400, but I don’t want to get one until we move. Have to tell her too. Sigh.
decisions
What a blessed emotional relief to have decided, though not yet announced to everyone, that we’ll keep the family intact and move as a single unit. Only until I faced the realities of being apart from some of them did I appreciate how untenable it would have been anyway. Within a month I’d have just driven east anyway.
Moving to NY
We’re doing it again. Ripping up house and home to seek a better life in farther lands. This time it’s C’s turn, and he’ll bring us back to the east coast. We’re on 4 yr cycles right now but he’s promised that this will be the last time. I guess I believe him/us when we say it.
The stress of information management and contemplating the to-do list has me physically ill and emotionally volatile. I can’t convince myself that we’re not being impulsive, again.
Break or Knot 