Monday, May 31: the week started with a free day. So what am I complaining about!! It was the memorial day weekend. It was fine having P home especially since his parents arrived the Thursday before memorial day.
Tuesday, June 1: Brought Miss F. to Gorton center and Miss A. to school. Then I went home to assist - read following all over the place like a little nosy old lady - Anderson Pest Solutions. Haha, he found 4 dead mouses, probably trapped in before he closed the hole. That's what he and I and all of us are hoping. Those dead mouses can stink!!
Wednesday, June 2: I this was the day I stayed at the Gorton Center to help with the costumes. It was so much fun being there, seeing Miss F. with her friends... She saw me and I could see the excitement in her expression. I smiled and then ignored her. I didn't want to be a distraction. I think she understood it. We smiled each other each time I saw her, and that was it. It felt so good to be involved and be close to Miss F. I know she'll never forget that. That's the reason I love being home with the kids.
After picking up Miss. A, I took her home, left her with my in-laws and went back to the Gorton Center for a short while. After school, I brought Miss F. to Charlie's b-day party and went to LifeTime for Miss. A's swimming lesson. Tristan didn't show up and there was an older busy boy in her class. Miss A. decided that she didn't want to have a lesson. Meester Tom did every thing he could, I used all techniques including the bribes I knew, but no way!Too bad for the grand parents who came to watch her. After the struggle, we left he lesson and went to pickup a happy Miss F. From there, the grand parents brought me to my Chiropractor and left with the kids. P was supposed to come there, too. Unfortunately he changed plans. I had to walk from the chiropractor to Barnes & Noble in a cold weather with light rain, to my SCBWI meeting. I had a story with me, my first story in the States actually, version 25. I have a love/hate relationship with the story. The readers had the same, too - different though, some liked it, some hated it. At 9pm sharp. P came to pick me up!
Thursday, June 3: Thursday was the day of the technical rehearsal for the ballet. After F's pickup, we went to the Rec Center. I was the room mom for F's group, with 2 other moms. I ended up staying with another group which had no room mom. Ballet tech rehearsal is nothing exciting. All the kids practice the grand finale, twice. this means a lot of waiting. At the end, they do their routine once, and they are done. The whole process tool like 2 hours, way too long for the little ones. I was tired at the end, the little ones were exhausted! Oh well, it was one down, two to go.
Friday, June 4: Shweta, the new girl from school invited couple people from school for a little morning coffee. Always fun! Close to the 3 pm, we went to the Lake Forest Library with my in-laws. It's a beautiful building, very nice to see. After Miss F's pick up, we went straight to the Lake Forest High School for the dress rehearsal. It's the first time the kids do their ballet routine on the stage. It's so much fun to see. The confusion, the overwhelmed look on their faces when they see the big room... They did so well, all of them. That same evening, I went out with Shelley to chill out at bit. We had a very nice evening, I had never talked to Shelley so much, I'm glad I did!
Saturday, June 5th: Miss F. had drama rehearsal until 1pm. We had strict instructions from school about the following hours. The kids were supposed to rest. At 6pm, they had the real thing! Kids from 5 year and older are allowed to go to the school drama. So Miss A. had to stay home with a sitter. For weeks, each time I mentioned her this, she started crying. I was really worried about it. I remember how upset she was when we went to see Mary Poppins. She had cried for the whole time we were gone and she had slammed the door on the sitter's face - poor Kerrie! I was waiting for the same reaction!
Well, after crying many times, she told me that she was afraid the sitter wouldn't understand her. She is so much used to have her sister as the talk! It's easier for me when I know the exact thing she is worried about. I said to Miss A. that she can watch a movie (we got a movie at the library the day before), and she might even see another one. She wouldn't have to talk at all. Somehow, this seemed to sound good to her. She actually had something to look forward to! When the sitter came - Veronica -, she just went off with her. She was totally OK - they did watch movies for hours, but well, she wasn't slamming doors or crying!
The play was at 6pm. We all got prepared, P wore his leather slippers against all my objections, and we went to see the play. The whole production was so well done, so cute... Miss F., who was saying that she will not go on stage, took her place and sang her songs as confident as a person can be! The little ones were in a choir, they sang 3 songs. The older kids had real parts with words. It was amazing how those kids put on stage a whole production in three weeks of partial repetition and then one week full time practicing! We saw the movie of Miss F. probably 15 times already.
oh yes, at the intermission, Duncan said "P should let me know when he will wear his flip flops again, I will do that, too!" Just too funny!
A little note about the play: the school does this for couple of reasons:
- the kids build confidence for being on stage - think about giving speeches, talking or performing in front of a crowd of people.
- it's a good experience to work together and produce something together. The older ones help the younger ones, the younger ones see the process the older ones go through.
- The kids get to know each other in a different way, in a different environment than the normal school.
I love our school!
Sunday, June 6th: We had the seats right in front of the stage for the ballet recital. Some people said the seats were too low and too close by. They probably just wanted those seats and couldn't get it. We were basically nose to nose with the kids. We could perfectly see them, and they could see us.
Miss A. was too occupied with Miss Sarah, her ballet teacher. She didn't see us at all. Miss Sarah was on the stage with the them and Miss A. was, as usual fully focused on her. They didn't present their best performance, some kids got a bit confused, but with the little ones, everything is just too cute!! After the intermission, Miss F. came on the stage and her class put on stage their best performance. The ballet movie is also watched many many times!
And this was the end of the crazy busy week!
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