More days that are crazed
Continuing in the vein of posting about the logistical challenges of my life...today is a bad one. :(
Tonight Ruthie is bridging up in Girl Scouts. This "bridging" is for whatever reason the word they use to mean graduating or moving up to the next level. After two years as a Brownie, she's going to become a Junior. It's kind of a big deal because, well for one thing it's another rite of passage, but also because Ruthie's time in Girl Scouts has been a bit bumpy with ups and downs -- I mean in terms of her enjoyment/engagement with it -- and now she's really seeming to enjoy it and showed no hesitation when I asked if she wants to continue next year, so I like that because I really think it's good for her to have something like that in her life, a group activity with a focus on values and learning/growing as well as fun.
Anyway, so there's a ceremony, and a sort of party, with pizza and so forth.
Meanwhile, Isaac has his last Little League game of the regular season, and his team is in second place so if they win tonight they get a bye for the first round of playoffs -- which would be a mixed blessing -- but in any case it's kind of a big deal also. And particularly because the coach told us that he's going to have Isaac pitch tonight. This season Isaac has only pitched once, and it was one that his grandma and I both missed because we had a chorus thing, so we were really bumming. When your kid is pitching, it is, again, kind of a big deal. And since Isaac hasn't pitched very much, grandma and I both really want to see it when he does. I tried to get him to tell me whether he's nervous about it, whether it makes him more or less nervous to have us there watching, etc. and he isn't very forthcoming. Not a big one for talking about how he feels, that kid.
It doesn't help that I feel like I've missed more of Isaac's games this year than usual, just due to misc other things that have come up (mostly chorus). That makes me feel bad, even though I know there are other parents who watch even fewer of their kids' Little League games than I do.
So anyway, of course both of these things are on the same night and at basically the same time. The baseball game will start at 5:30 and the Girl Scout thing at 6:00. I'm kind of hoping that coach will put Isaac in as the starting pitcher, so I'll be able to watch him for the first half-hour or so before I rush off with Ruthie to Girl Scouts. After that I figure I'll see how things go and whether I feel the need to rush back and forth between the two things, or just hang out at one of them, or what. It isn't far -- probably a five minutes' drive between the two locations, and I've done the back-and-forth thing before so I know it's doable, but it isn't fun. I get all stressed and feel like I'm not really experiencing either of the activities.
At least grandma will be able to watch Isaac's whole game, and tell me about it.
Sigh.
Tonight Ruthie is bridging up in Girl Scouts. This "bridging" is for whatever reason the word they use to mean graduating or moving up to the next level. After two years as a Brownie, she's going to become a Junior. It's kind of a big deal because, well for one thing it's another rite of passage, but also because Ruthie's time in Girl Scouts has been a bit bumpy with ups and downs -- I mean in terms of her enjoyment/engagement with it -- and now she's really seeming to enjoy it and showed no hesitation when I asked if she wants to continue next year, so I like that because I really think it's good for her to have something like that in her life, a group activity with a focus on values and learning/growing as well as fun.
Anyway, so there's a ceremony, and a sort of party, with pizza and so forth.
Meanwhile, Isaac has his last Little League game of the regular season, and his team is in second place so if they win tonight they get a bye for the first round of playoffs -- which would be a mixed blessing -- but in any case it's kind of a big deal also. And particularly because the coach told us that he's going to have Isaac pitch tonight. This season Isaac has only pitched once, and it was one that his grandma and I both missed because we had a chorus thing, so we were really bumming. When your kid is pitching, it is, again, kind of a big deal. And since Isaac hasn't pitched very much, grandma and I both really want to see it when he does. I tried to get him to tell me whether he's nervous about it, whether it makes him more or less nervous to have us there watching, etc. and he isn't very forthcoming. Not a big one for talking about how he feels, that kid.
It doesn't help that I feel like I've missed more of Isaac's games this year than usual, just due to misc other things that have come up (mostly chorus). That makes me feel bad, even though I know there are other parents who watch even fewer of their kids' Little League games than I do.
So anyway, of course both of these things are on the same night and at basically the same time. The baseball game will start at 5:30 and the Girl Scout thing at 6:00. I'm kind of hoping that coach will put Isaac in as the starting pitcher, so I'll be able to watch him for the first half-hour or so before I rush off with Ruthie to Girl Scouts. After that I figure I'll see how things go and whether I feel the need to rush back and forth between the two things, or just hang out at one of them, or what. It isn't far -- probably a five minutes' drive between the two locations, and I've done the back-and-forth thing before so I know it's doable, but it isn't fun. I get all stressed and feel like I'm not really experiencing either of the activities.
At least grandma will be able to watch Isaac's whole game, and tell me about it.
Sigh.