Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family.
The week began on a particularly high note for our dog Prewash, when we had our church Care Group over for lunch after Sunday's service. Not only did this mean that our living room and dining room were full-up with friendly people who showered her with attention, but then after lunch they put their plates on the floor and she got to live out the job that goes with her name, over and over again. She was a very, very happy dog. (And I liked having friendly people over to the house, too).
My husband had his own down-and-up adventures this week. Let's see, how to say this? Well, the good news is that he got a chance to use a Christmas gift my niece gave us: a rice pack (ice pack) that we've been keeping in the freezer. The other good news is that, after a few days' pain, he got an x-ray that showed him that the fall he had on the icy sidewalks didn't actually break his wrist but just sprained it. The bad news is that this means he hasn't increased his Life Time Broken Bone count past a piddly 35, so that he has a long, long way to go before he can challenge Evel Knievel's record. Evel noted that he, also, broke "only 35 bones", but he broke those 35 bones frequently enough that he had well over 400 breaks.
It's probably obvious that we value a bit of risk taking in our family, so I was a Proud Parent when I found out that I-daughter took on the challenge of auditioning for a part in the chorus of an upcoming theater production of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a really rigorous audition, including (for example) the piano playing a chord, and asking the singer to sing only the middle note. I-daughter said that was especially hard for a soprano like her. Yay for bravery!
Oh . . . and she got the part!
K-daughter also got some good news; she's gotten a job within the Y as a front desk clerk. She's already been teaching swimming lessons and working in the child care center there for many months now. The fact that she gets free childcare for A-child makes a job at the Y much more financially worthwhile than a lot of other local jobs. And I'm so glad that she's getting a variety of experiences, including (increasingly) administrative ones. It's a good launching place for her, while she waits for the day that A-child gets to start school and free up even more options for her mom.
As for me, I got the happy news from my editor that the press where my co-authors and I had submitted our book manuscript gave the project the thumbs up and will be sending it out for review. Whoop!
N-son (with K-daughter and I-daughter and me and his dad) got to go to an amazingly good production of Romeo and Juliet at my college. Afterward, my husband and I offered to N-son to arrange a marriage for him. N-son seems to need a bit more convincing before he'll go along with the plan, especially because of how the plan went south for R&J. I told him we'd find him a frugal spouse, and that would make it okay. If you have an eligible child you're trying to marry off, let me know and maybe we can chortle over the future of our kids together.
And that's the news from the Miser Family, which continues to be prosperous in our adventure. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
The week began on a particularly high note for our dog Prewash, when we had our church Care Group over for lunch after Sunday's service. Not only did this mean that our living room and dining room were full-up with friendly people who showered her with attention, but then after lunch they put their plates on the floor and she got to live out the job that goes with her name, over and over again. She was a very, very happy dog. (And I liked having friendly people over to the house, too).
My husband had his own down-and-up adventures this week. Let's see, how to say this? Well, the good news is that he got a chance to use a Christmas gift my niece gave us: a rice pack (ice pack) that we've been keeping in the freezer. The other good news is that, after a few days' pain, he got an x-ray that showed him that the fall he had on the icy sidewalks didn't actually break his wrist but just sprained it. The bad news is that this means he hasn't increased his Life Time Broken Bone count past a piddly 35, so that he has a long, long way to go before he can challenge Evel Knievel's record. Evel noted that he, also, broke "only 35 bones", but he broke those 35 bones frequently enough that he had well over 400 breaks.
It's probably obvious that we value a bit of risk taking in our family, so I was a Proud Parent when I found out that I-daughter took on the challenge of auditioning for a part in the chorus of an upcoming theater production of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a really rigorous audition, including (for example) the piano playing a chord, and asking the singer to sing only the middle note. I-daughter said that was especially hard for a soprano like her. Yay for bravery!
Oh . . . and she got the part!
K-daughter also got some good news; she's gotten a job within the Y as a front desk clerk. She's already been teaching swimming lessons and working in the child care center there for many months now. The fact that she gets free childcare for A-child makes a job at the Y much more financially worthwhile than a lot of other local jobs. And I'm so glad that she's getting a variety of experiences, including (increasingly) administrative ones. It's a good launching place for her, while she waits for the day that A-child gets to start school and free up even more options for her mom.
As for me, I got the happy news from my editor that the press where my co-authors and I had submitted our book manuscript gave the project the thumbs up and will be sending it out for review. Whoop!
N-son (with K-daughter and I-daughter and me and his dad) got to go to an amazingly good production of Romeo and Juliet at my college. Afterward, my husband and I offered to N-son to arrange a marriage for him. N-son seems to need a bit more convincing before he'll go along with the plan, especially because of how the plan went south for R&J. I told him we'd find him a frugal spouse, and that would make it okay. If you have an eligible child you're trying to marry off, let me know and maybe we can chortle over the future of our kids together.
And that's the news from the Miser Family, which continues to be prosperous in our adventure. May you and yours be similarly wealthy.
No comments:
Post a Comment