Day Eighteen, Third Thursday (Night)

I like the word penultimate. That's it, I like that word, now onto the blog...today was a good day, not monumentally productive, but a good day nonetheless. I feel like the dust exposure from yesterday's cleaning, has caused a huge allergic reaction in me and my eye is swollen and my nose is super stuffy. Also it's that hot October weather, hot ( as I mentioned), dry and still. When the weather is like this I feel I will suffocate from the hot, stillness of the air. I long for humidity and cool breezes whispering against my face.

I was really tired today but in spite of that, I walked around the lake (not the big downtown lake, the little suburban lake) at least 3 times and had a lovely visit (while walking) with a friend. I went home and made breakfast, sat for a bit and decided I would take the day off and rest, My body is clearly telling me something. First the list, then what I really did...

• One thing I love about my kids, they draw pictures, in pencil, of things they like, cut them out and tape them onto things. Like making their own stickers. I love seeing these drawings taped onto their things, school notebooks, journals, and Prima has decorated her guitar that way.
• Primo's phone
• 9:00 walk with L
• Donation station
• Allegra D
• More coffee
• Vitamin run
• Birthday shopping

No to the Allegra D, and vitamin run, but yes to everything else. Which is funny because if someone asked me if I got most of my tasks completed today I would have said no. But I did and even some more that I forgot to write down and some I just plain didn't write down.

So here's how it all played out: I was tired after breakfast and was fooling around on my phone and had just decided to call it a day when I realized that I really did have to take Primo's phone to be examined. Yesterday it stopped working, the screen became unresponsive to touch, and if I let it go, I will be paying for that phone service while his phone doesn't work, forever. So I got myself together (as together as I could) and away I went. As I was barreling towards my destination I heard a little voice inside my head say "go get your son" so I went to his school, picked him up and took him with me. It was so nice to have some time with him. While we waited for his phone to be repaired, we got birthday presents for the girls and also some for TR. We went and dropped off the donation bags which was right down the street from the coffee joint so we did that too. We swung by the High School, picked up Prima rushed home and then I ran back down to the school to meet TR for dinner and back to school night. It was a whirlwind day but as I have said, a good one and despite being tired, I feel like I got a fair amount done. Enough to go to bed feeling satisfied with myself.

Back to school night was interesting. I do love Prima's school. It is truly a place about educating young artists, and the teachers are so enthusiastic about what they do. More than one of the teachers thanked us parents for entrusting our children to them. Her english teacher sounded like he was/is on a personal mission to create the kind of understanding and safe place for growth that he lacked as a teen. He was so passionate about his role with the children and it all had to do with bringing greater self understanding to them. He is an amazing teacher. All the teachers that we introduced ourselves to as Prima's parents gushed over how much they liked her and what a wonderful student she is. Several of them remarked that she seems to be coming out of her shell. I am glad we went, I really like back to school night there. Maybe I should send the director an email.

After all my silent, internal philosophizing today, I find my brain so tired, all it is thinking now is, 'when is lights out?'. So It will be in a moment, tomorrow I will try to write a bit earlier so I am not so drained. Tomorrow...ladies birthday lunch with three of my oldest and dearest friends. I am a lucky girl, maybe the luckiest!

I can't wait for birthday cake!