In my previous post I wrote about the logistics of last Thursday. It turned out fine, of course. I ended up going with the option that was less logistically complicated but that involved me not seeing the kids for almost a full 24 hours. The babysitter picked them up after school, and since it was a ridiculously hot day, they basically just hung ( Read more... )

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On how we're doing / what we've been up to the past few days ( Read more... )

Last night we had the first chorus rehearsal of the '10-11 season. It was really nice to be back; I didn't sing in the spring concert because I couldn't find a babysitter, and I definitely missed it. I felt quite rusty, voice-wise, but it was nice to be back among my chorus friends. That one chunk of time in my week spent interacting with other ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone for the words of support on my post about my mom. (And if you somehow missed it, here it is.) Sorry to go more than a week without updating ( Read more... )

Also I forgot that I wanted to link you to this article from the Cambridge Chronicle about our choir, the Cambridge Community Chorus, which is performing our Twentieth! Anniversary! Concert! on December 13th. My mom and I are quoted in the article, because we have been with the chorus since the beginning as a mother/daughter team, from when I was a ( Read more... )

* The concert last Sunday went quite well. I hope I shall have a chance to write more about it at some point. (I say that a lot, don't I? sigh.)

* Monday was a glorious day both weather-wise and activity-wise. We spent basically the whole day in the back yard, with six(!) other kids coming over to play at various points. The fabulously wonderful wneleh ( Read more... )

Last night we had the last chorus rehearsal before the dress rehearsal, which is on Saturday. Our concert is Sunday. Yikes!

So it was a long and grueling (but good) rehearsal. Our conductor William singled me out, twice, for being the only(?) person who is consistently looking at him when he looks at me. The lower a person's confidence in her ( Read more... )

Not much updating from me lately, eh? I got home late last night from chorus rehearsal, after deciding to go out to dinner with the crew -- something I used to do all the time, in those heady days before kids. It was fun-ish, but I couldn't really enjoy it. Too busy thinking about the kids and about how tired I was and how tired I would be in the ( Read more... )

Augh!! I have had quite enough of these car-breakdown adventures thankyouverymuch!!

( The short version is that they said it was fixed but it isn't. Longer version behind the cut. )