This morning I attended a school event at Link’s class. It was called “Moms and Muffins.” The whole point is for Moms to come to class and read for an hour with their children. As an enticement to the moms, they are given muffins if they come. Link was very excited about this event. He’d watched Gleek have her turn a couple of months ago and was glad for an hour of having mom all to himself. I was glad for the event as well. It finally got me out of the house for a pleasant event. Out of the house is important because otherwise I’d spend all day attempting to entertain myself by watching the advance of glaciation on my windows.
I also got out of the house to run Patches to his gym class and to pick up Gleek from school and to pick up Link from school and to pick up Kiki from school. Those trips weren’t as fun, because mostly they involve coaxing recalcitrant children into and then out of the van. Gleek did recalcitrant exceptionally well today. By the time I was done doing all of that out-of-the-house I was rather glad when Kiki decided to skip art lessons today. Instead I huddled in my office and played Chuzzle for awhile. My office is a much nicer place now that I’ve installed a full spectrum light. Partly I wonder if it is a placebo effect. Perhaps the addition of any lamp would have made it better. Oh well. I have the bulb now. I might as well use it.
Opps
I think you used one of your kids’ real name, didn’t you? In the first paragragh? It is possible it is a friend or school mate but just in case I thought I would hollar at ya.
Faren
Opps
I think you used one of your kids’ real name, didn’t you? In the first paragragh? It is possible it is a friend or school mate but just in case I thought I would hollar at ya.
Faren
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That’s what I get for being too tired to proofread properly. Thanks.
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That’s what I get for being too tired to proofread properly. Thanks.
I’m not so sure I’m sold on the Moms and Muffins thing (I went too). I’m wondering exactly what the point is. Does it truly encourage reading with the kids more? Or is there some other motive?
Maybe I’m just miffed that I only got HALF a muffin.
Julie 🙂
I’m not so sure I’m sold on the Moms and Muffins thing (I went too). I’m wondering exactly what the point is. Does it truly encourage reading with the kids more? Or is there some other motive?
Maybe I’m just miffed that I only got HALF a muffin.
Julie 🙂
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No problem, I hope your winter doldorms get better!
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No problem, I hope your winter doldorms get better!
light helps. I got some low-energy daylight-spectrum bulbs recently, and they’re pretty impressive. I’ve had the “blue” regular daylight bulbs before but they’re pretty bad from the environmental point of view, as you end up using a bigger wattage to get the same amount of light. The LE ones make plenty of light from 18W, and comparing it with the sunlight coming through the windows (which actually happened for about half an hour the other day) it’s pretty close on color. I don’t know how complete the spectrum is in reality, might hunt around for a prism one day and see if I can find out, seeing as I don’t have a spectromter; or make a spectrometer of course.
One chap I know had 1000W of halogen floodlights in his room. Mind, I’d not have liked to pay the bill for running them.
light helps. I got some low-energy daylight-spectrum bulbs recently, and they’re pretty impressive. I’ve had the “blue” regular daylight bulbs before but they’re pretty bad from the environmental point of view, as you end up using a bigger wattage to get the same amount of light. The LE ones make plenty of light from 18W, and comparing it with the sunlight coming through the windows (which actually happened for about half an hour the other day) it’s pretty close on color. I don’t know how complete the spectrum is in reality, might hunt around for a prism one day and see if I can find out, seeing as I don’t have a spectromter; or make a spectrometer of course.
One chap I know had 1000W of halogen floodlights in his room. Mind, I’d not have liked to pay the bill for running them.