I can tell spring is just around the corner, and not just because of the fake winter we’ve had. I think it’s because we’ve been crazy busy. Last week every night but one we had something going on, though most of the events were fun! My friend from high school works at the Denver Center and had two free tickets to the Phantom of the Opera at the Temple Buell Theatre for Tuesday night, and even though I was in the midst of a crazy week that included a weeknight birthday party, CSAP testing, a faculty meeting, three Girl Scout events, and a staff happy hour, who turns down tickets to Phantom? So my friend Kristen and I went (fortunately it was on the night that Bruce doesn’t have class), and we had orchestra-level seats! It was an amazing show, and competes fully in my mind with the only other time I’ve seen it, on Broadway in NY on New Year’s Eve when I was 15.
So the next night, the girls and I went to a 4-year-old’s birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. Not exactly my cup of tea, but that night was all about them. On Thursday afternoon, we had our biweekly Girl Scout meeting. This time the girls were earning their strength and courage petal, so we decided to do a push-up contest. It was pretty hilarious to watch all the 6-year-olds attempting to do push-ups, especially as most of them looked like they were, um, humping the ground!
Meanwhile, I had to administer CSAPs all week, which has its benefits: I was able to read three and a half books! You gotta look at the bright side of those boring days. And to “decompress”, our staff had a happy hour on Friday, and since Isabella was getting her cavities filled and wasn’t going to need me to pick her up, I decided to go. Had a good time hanging out with the people I work with, and then Isabella and I went to a GS birthday party to celebrate the birth of GS and to collect items to make birthday parties in a box for disadvantaged kids. And as if we hadn’t had enough of GS, we did our cookie booth sale at Safeway the next morning, then went out to lunch with the girls from our troop who were there.
This week isn’t as crazy, but Isabella is still in dance and might soon be in soccer (if they get her a coach), and soon Mythili and I will partake in a parent/tot roller hockey course. I’m still wondering how I’m going to juggle all these activities when I have three girls involved in things, but I guess we’ll figure it out!
And, at last, it snowed this morning. Denver weather likes to pretend it’s winter for just the amount of time it takes to drive to work, because by this afternoon, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky or a speck of snow anywhere. I guess I can just give up on having a snow day this year and instead welcome the busy-ness of spring!
