Best wishes to Askye and smonster on their important days.
Is June over yet? I'm tired already because of (in no particular order):
Three high school graduations (one for son of a friend, one was my daughter's, and one I helped with the dessert reception for) - 3 nights out until 10-11pm within 7 days.
The 3-day whirlwind MIL visit that went with my daughter's graduation (lovely, but exhausting) and seeing my parents (wonderful, but Dad is looking very frail and that hurts).
End of school trips, barbeques, pizza parties, assemblies, plays, half-days, and OMG FINALS AND PAPERS for the 2 in elementary school and the 2 in high school.
Paying a shiva (house of mourning) call at the home of a local Chabad rabbi whose wife (age 49, director of a large preschool, legendary teacher, wife, and mother of 6) died suddenly of the cancer no one knew was there. (Can I get a "F*ck Cancer" from the congregation? Thank you.)
The 25th anniversary (today) of a strong, wonderful marriage (first guy that asked me, too) - but there's no time to celebrate now because of DH's work and all the stuff listed above, so I'm frustrated that we don't get to play and enjoy our special day.
Still to come in June: DD#2 leaves today for two weeks in Memphis to visit a schoolmate, a wedding and sheva brachos (festive meal with the new marrieds during the first week after the wedding) for the daughter of a friend, the start of the day camp that DD#3 and DD#4 attend and of the other day camp that DD#1 is a head counselor for, and DH leaves for a 4-day business trip. And then the weekend of July 4 we celebrate America's birthday and my mom's 70th with an extended family gathering.
Yeah, I need more sleep. Most of this is good and fun stuff and full of blessings, but - whew! Where are my quiet routines and my second cup of tea for the morning?
Aww, Shari, happy anniversary to you, even if life does insist on getting in the way of celebrating!
(Also, how on earth is DD1 out of high school? In my mind, she's Stor-sized!)
Shari, happy anniversary! Also, congrats on your daughter's graduation.
And about your friends, that's beyond incomprehensible. Much coping~ma for the rabbi's family. And yes, fuck cancer.
(Also, how on earth is DD1 out of high school? In my mind, she's Stor-sized!)
In my mind too, sometimes, amych, but her brothers are 21 and soon-to-be 20 and both are over 6' tall, so I can't delude myself anymore that my kids are all little. Even the last two (ages 11 and 7) don't seem little anymore!
Someone asked me, while we were setting up the reception at the boys graduation the other night, whether I had more kids coming through the school - how long would I be doing this kind of volunteering? I said I'd probably be doing this one day with a tray of cookies in one hand and a walker in the other! By the time the youngest finishes 12th grade, we'll have spent 26 years paying tuition to Jewish schools. And that's nowhere near the record :-)
Dude, you haven't read Anne of Green Gables?
Note to self: Don't admit to Dana that I haven't read Anne of Green Gables either.
Cassiepants, don't admit it to me, either. Just in case you were gonna.
Signed,
Is my very favorite and I own at least 3 full sets of the books, and some one offs in hardcover. Including the paperback set that came out with Megan Followes on the cover.
Still finding it hard to fathom people who haven't read or don't love Anne. I was so excited to start reading Anne of Green Gables with my youngest ones recently. DD#3 turned up her nose when I brought the book out, but after we started reading it together, both girls started reading ahead in it on their own. So now there are three bookmarks in different places, but we're still enjoying the group read.
I read Anne of Green Gables when I was a kid, but never any of the sequels. I just didn't identify with Anne enough to seek them out.
Oh for sure TOTAL LIME now.
THe movies are great. The first one is very true to the book and the second one takes the best parts of books 2-4 and melds the stories nicely.
The third movie? Ptui. We shall never speak of it again.
And now there's some abomination with Barbara Hershey talking about Anne finds her mother's diary and her father's not really dead and what the fuck ever. Poor LM Montgomery. It's like the ghost writers for VC Andrews found some notes and went fucking nuts.
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smonster - was I supposed to PayPal you shipping for some LM Montgomery books? Fucking hell, what is WRONG with me??
