Post band concert thoughts
My head is full.
It is full of a band concert where Gleeks acrobatic dances in the auditorium aisles drew enough attention that someone came up to me afterward to tell me that he wished he’d had a camera so they could sell the video to America’s Funniest Home Videos.
It is full of all the times in the past month when I’ve had to poke-prod-nag Kiki to do a mere 10 minutes of Clarinet practice, and now she is saying that she wants to take band again next year. I’m a firm believer in letting kids pick their electives, but I don’t want to nag about practice again next year. I don’t want to take Gleek to band concerts next year.
Then there is the way that Link came home from the concert uber-hyper about all things Nintendo because the last song was a Mario Brother’s medley. Link kept chattering on about how he wants Nintendo blankets, and pillows, and clothes, and pictures for the walls, etc. I know he needed help calming down, but so did Gleek, and Patch, and I. My kids are very prone to getting wound up and it is hard to slow them down, to soothe them. At events like concerts I can’t help but notice how quietly other kids are sitting while mine bop around like jumping beans. The comparison makes me wonder whether my kids are that much more energetic/hard to handle than other kids, or if there is some fault in my parenting.
There is also the new infestation of ants I discovered in the Kitchen. That floor needs to be swept and mopped. And there are weeds to be sprayed. And there is laundry to be done. and, and, and
It really has been a good day. I got a lot done. I even took some time out to relax. I think I’m just wound wound up from the concert and need to slow my thoughts down to a walk.