WED. JANUARY 11
I fasted through breakfast and lunch today (making up for yesterday!).
Tonight started Sabrina's 6-week Wednesday night program up at church. They promised pizza, but they also said we had to reserve our pizza by Monday -- and we didn't get the flyer that said that till today. Oops. So I made a quick dinner just in case there wasn't enough pizza. I made fish tenders (sort of halfway between fish sticks and full fish fillets and angel hair pasta w/ parmesan sauce. I was starving, and really jonesing for pasta for some reason, so I all of mine and all the kids' leftovers.
When we got up to church, turns out they had enough pizza. But it didn't look that great (Dominos, sitting around for a while). Cory ate some pizza, Sabrina refused it, I passed as well. Theoretically I should have stayed for the evening, as it was supposed to be "Family Movie Night." But these Wed. nights are supposed to be nights of learning and being with friends, not of plopping them down in front of a screen (I can do that at home!), and I didn't want to encourage them to do it again but sticking around and showing support. And there were only about half a dozen parents who stayed anyway (and some brought sudoku or whatnot to do).
I'm a little concerned as well, because this used to be the 3rd through 5th grade group, and kids were so excited to be old enough to go. Well, last year they opened it to 2nd graders. And this year they've opened it to preschoolers and up. So of course the older grade kids don't want to go. I think Sabrina and her 4 3rd-grade girlfriends there were the oldest kids there. No 4th or 5th graders at all that I could see. (Cory had gone up to the jr. high program by this time.) And note the use of the word "girlfriend." There were no boys. At least none over the age of 5. I'm so grateful to Bill Parrott, who ran the program when Cory went through it, and trained up a whole cadre of God-loving boys. With him gone (moved to Washington), the program is getting girlier by the minute. It makes me sad.
So sad I think I will have a piece of See's chocolate as I sit down to watch the new episode of Lost... And that will be it for the day.
Tomorrow I'm home writing all day, but go out in the evening to the Alliance of Women Directors meeting. But often the snacks there are things I don't even like (hummus, etc.), and I don't really drink wine, so shouldn't be any real temptation there.
Tonight started Sabrina's 6-week Wednesday night program up at church. They promised pizza, but they also said we had to reserve our pizza by Monday -- and we didn't get the flyer that said that till today. Oops. So I made a quick dinner just in case there wasn't enough pizza. I made fish tenders (sort of halfway between fish sticks and full fish fillets and angel hair pasta w/ parmesan sauce. I was starving, and really jonesing for pasta for some reason, so I all of mine and all the kids' leftovers.
When we got up to church, turns out they had enough pizza. But it didn't look that great (Dominos, sitting around for a while). Cory ate some pizza, Sabrina refused it, I passed as well. Theoretically I should have stayed for the evening, as it was supposed to be "Family Movie Night." But these Wed. nights are supposed to be nights of learning and being with friends, not of plopping them down in front of a screen (I can do that at home!), and I didn't want to encourage them to do it again but sticking around and showing support. And there were only about half a dozen parents who stayed anyway (and some brought sudoku or whatnot to do).
I'm a little concerned as well, because this used to be the 3rd through 5th grade group, and kids were so excited to be old enough to go. Well, last year they opened it to 2nd graders. And this year they've opened it to preschoolers and up. So of course the older grade kids don't want to go. I think Sabrina and her 4 3rd-grade girlfriends there were the oldest kids there. No 4th or 5th graders at all that I could see. (Cory had gone up to the jr. high program by this time.) And note the use of the word "girlfriend." There were no boys. At least none over the age of 5. I'm so grateful to Bill Parrott, who ran the program when Cory went through it, and trained up a whole cadre of God-loving boys. With him gone (moved to Washington), the program is getting girlier by the minute. It makes me sad.
So sad I think I will have a piece of See's chocolate as I sit down to watch the new episode of Lost... And that will be it for the day.
Tomorrow I'm home writing all day, but go out in the evening to the Alliance of Women Directors meeting. But often the snacks there are things I don't even like (hummus, etc.), and I don't really drink wine, so shouldn't be any real temptation there.
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