NO BUNS IN THE OVEN EITHER!!!!!
My very wise husband has informed me that it's "irons in the fire" NOT "pans in the fire".
He also pointed out that I have cooked this week so there was literally something in the oven.
I feel like have so many different pans in the fire right now....(is that even a saying?) Maybe it's pans in the oven. Unfortunately I don't literally have anything in the oven these days! Anyway...here's what's going on.
University teaching...I mistakenly thought working with college students would be different that working with toddlers. 3 out of 6 students showed up for their lessons yesterday.
P90X....I made it through all the workouts and now am on my second time through. I think I'm officially on day 14 of 90 days. It's fun...it's killer...it's very time consuming (1 hour a day).
Spring Cleaning for Normal people...yep...haven't done that walk through with a garbage bag yet.
And on top of all that, I have accepted a new "position" for Compassion so I have some training to do for that. I am really trying to get back into practicing violin and viola (my goal is 45 minutes a day). And then there is the usual staying in touch with everyone. Of course I also have 2 little ladies that need lots of attention.
So that's how I'm doing...how are you?
Teachable moments are hard.
Being an intentional mother is hard.
Today, the girls and I went shopping at Big Lots and then we went into Dollar Tree next door because the girls like looking at stuff there. We didn't find anything that we had to have so we headed home.
It was 12:30 and I was thinking that it was nice to be home in time for lunch and then get the girls down for their nap.
I started unbuckling Sydney and noticed something shiny in her hand.
It was a large jewel, craft thing that looked like it came off something. I'm thinking, "great...just what I need...a lesson in shoplifting."
After a couple questions, I found out that she had seen it on the floor at Dollar Tree and she picked it up because she thought it would be fun to play with.
You have to realize that what she "stole" was basically garbage...it had fallen off something. It would have been so easy to tell her it was wrong to take it and go inside the house.
But this was one of those "teachable moments".
And so....we buckled ourselves back into the van. Drove back to Dollar Tree. Got out of the car again (did I mention it's zero degrees here today?) And went inside to return the shiny thing.
I tried explaining that I wasn't mad at her, but this was a very good lesson to learn.
Still...she was terrified. She kept saying "Are they going to take me from you?"
But she did a good job in apologizing. And then the store employee got in her face and said "You can't do that. You can't take things." I would have been terrified too!
So then we got back in the car and drove home...only to realize that now her hat was missing.
Ug. Now I probably have to buy a new hat.
I'm going to give this a try....I'm always looking for new ways to simplify life and be organized. Check out Crystal's blog for this weeks assignment.
I'll post about my progress later this week....
