Day Twelve, Friday Nighty Night!

Here's what I planned: get up, get ready to tackle my day, make breakfast for the kids, start tackling my day with phone calls, super action towards finishing the sideboard and of course the DVDs. Start really putting together a plan for a Big Project. Investigate shelves...all sorts of wonderfully active actions that would get me just that much closer to my goal of accomplishing SOMETHING.

Here's what happened: got up, got a text from Mr.D asking if I could come help out with some stuff at exwork, said yes, no one wanted breakfast, I made a list (ever hopeful that I would be home early enough to do something) and I got ready to go help out and did just (and I mean just) that. I ended up there until it was time to do the Middle Kid Pick Up. I'm not even sure what I did that was helpful, though I DID see a lot of people that I miss, and that makes it worth it right there.

the List of Friday September 26th reads like this: (super ambitious ?)

• Mr.D's coffee (not at all like Mr. B's Ballroom)
• Sideboard sorting
• Call possible places to donate sideboard
• Middle Kid Pick Up
• Big Kid Pick Up
• email Ms. S re: volunteering Monday
• Barn after school
• Frozen
• Blog-reflection on talks with Primo (plastic bags)

It does seem a bit hopeful to have a list that long, knowing I am going in to exwork. I really must have known in my heart of hearts that I wouldn't really follow through. I did help out with the coffee, it turned out to be more of a social coffee than an informative gathering. I think he has the right intention, we just have to work on informing the community and presentation. I did all my pick ups and went to the barn and even stayed while Prima rode. In addition and not on the list, I prepared a return to amazon, got TR's renewal in the mail, went to see an outdoor, sing-along showing of Frozen with lots of friends and folded laundry.

Okay so I am going to jump right into the last item on my list. Talks with Primo...for years Primo has been my captive audience in the car, spending many car rides alone with me after I have dropped off all the other children I was carting around and traveling to his destination. It seem that most often I end up chatting with him about funny ideas that travel through my mind. All sorts of things, reflections on subjects ranging from historical observations to ideas bordering on theoretical physics. Today he came to me as we were getting ready to go and told me that only 1 billionth ( I think that's the amount he said) of all the matter created by the Big Bang ( I have always loved that name) still exists. He then started explaining each point, how much matter there had been, that everything is made from the same matter and is basically recycled over and over again, and then, it looked like he had a light bulb realization, he explained how if all matter was in a closed system, it didn't make a difference how materials were made, whether found already or manmade or man altered, EVERYTHING was natural because no new matter was introduced. It is all from the same batch and therefore is all still part of the same system. His example of it was plastic.

He often comes up with interesting ideas like that, and while I know he isn't the first person to have ever thought that, it does seem intuitive of an 8th grader to make that connection on his own. He continually amazes and delights me. He is a truly sparkly human being and not only that, he was awarded student of the month this month!

I am tired, both physically and emotionally. I and toddling off to bed. More on sideboards and DVDs tomorrow.

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