One Week

I'm so glad this week is coming to a close. It's been stressful and long! I have definitely decided I do not like being a working mom. It's okay to occasionally have to be somewhere that takes all day, but day after day of it is crap. And my house shows it.

I subbed for my librarian friend again this week. She's having a hard time bouncing back from her surgery and the decline in health of her aging parents. I am happy to help her out, and I have really enjoyed the chance to "teach" library, but being gone from home has been an issue. I enjoy being here when the older kids get home from school. And by the time I would get home, it was time for piano, horseback riding lessons, cello lessons, volleyball, or whatever so nothing got done beyond the basics.

In addition, it is the end of the term so everyone is stressed... And we've had orchestra and choir concerts to attend, to boot. I love seeing my kids perform :)

Here's some pics...
M's Central Singer's Choir Concert... They sang Abba songs. That shouldn't be allowed.


N's first orchestra concert as a junior high student... She's the odd one out in our family, playing the violin.


M's orchestra concert... M enjoys orchestra only because she really enjoys the company of the other orchestra geeks she sits by. She refuses to try for first chair because then she couldn't misbehave with the basses and 8th grade cellos. That's my M!


and bnl_fan 's orchestra concert... She's orchestra president again this year and is working so hard to make it fun and cool. She's got the orchestra involved in the Homecoming activities, something they've never done, she's arranged for fund raisers for a CA trip, something that's never been done, and she's hosted parties--here--that was weird. Orchestra kids are just weird.


Strange that they didn't notice the large yellow arrows above their heads...