1. Generally speaking, I am not a fan of Saturday Night Live. But as a National Anthem singer (who grits her teeth at the ludicrous versions we’re subjected to) and a liturgist (who can’t stand the fact that the national anthem has become a solo op instead of a community song), I found this performance by Maya Rudolph absolutely hilarious. Enjoy!
2. Continuing the pursuit of fame is my son Alex, who rode his bike almost a mile to the grand opening of the new fire station on Sunday. He got interviewed by a reporter and his picture is #9 in the slide show, where he’s sitting with his friends down the street. But the paper didn’t use the best material they were given. “Do you want to be a fireman when you grow up?” asked the reporter.
“Actually,” Alex said, “I want to be Batman when I grow up.” HA!
3. You know those weeks when life is busy, and yet somehow you clear your to-do list by Tuesday, and by Friday you’re six items into bonus territory? That was not this week. No, this was the week when you start with a list of ONE item and by Friday, you STILL haven’t made any progress on it.
4. I lost Monday and Tuesday to snow days (completely unjustified ones); Wednesday to an advisory committee meeting for the state early intervention program; Thursday to a THREE HOUR visit to the pulomonologist. Julianna went to exactly ONE day of school this week. Out of FOUR.
5. The other time killer this week has been work on the Children’s Therapy Act. It’s exciting to see people paying attention to us, but it is taking up a lot of time. I’m spending around an hour every day on emails and phone calls. We are scheduling a meeting with some people from the government’s insurance provider, which means we have to collect denial letters from families to justify our bill. My mother tells me this is the “vetting” process.
6. On the up side, I did get my book, Joy to the World: Advent is for Families sent to Liguori, and my editor had virtually no editorial changes for me. So I am almost finished with that assignment. Available June 2010!
7. Finally…you know how I love to chew on my children. I’ve decided that I chew on Alex for substance, Julianna for spice, and Nicholas for spun sugar.
Happy V-day, all!
Kathleen M. Basi 
About #2, little boys all over the world are the same! The eight year old boys in the village school that I taught wanted to be Power rangers and batman… I wrote about it in this post.. http://soozywoozy.blogspot.com/2008/07/overheard_28.html
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Seriously…you might as well get over the snow day thing right now. Everybody is always pissed off about snow days no matter if they call them or not. There is no winning in that situation.
Wow, such sympathy. I feel so uplifted now. 🙂
I could not get through the SNL clip. Just can’t do it. I love SNL when it comes to politics, but otherwise it is sort of meh.
The batman quote is wonderful.
Congratulations on the book!
Picture #3 has Christian leaning against the side of truck facing away from the camera and Alex is sitting on the front of the firetruck! Very cute! Congratulations on the Advent book!
I wasn’t trying to be snippy…just realistic. Some guy was grumbling on the news about how they cancelled school early last week. He said they should just automatically cancel school if it’s snowing. So there are people on all sides of the argument. I think pretty much whatever the district does, someone will be unhappy.
Yes, I’ve often thought that myself. FWIW, Monday I thought it was probably a good decision, considering the snow that was ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY going to dump on us. But it didn’t, and there was hardly anything overnight, so it was Tuesday that irritated me.
Way to go with the flow, Kate! Mothering requires scads of flexibility while trying like the dickens to create routine…you’re doing great!
Congrats on the book!!! Yay!!!
I love the chew on the children ending…heartwarming, stirs my mom-ness. Thank you!