some things just don't work out i guess (160/365b)

actually got a good night's sleep last night, and my early start this morning didn't feel that early - -i was even up before my alarm. perfect. that's the kind of habit i would like to cultivate!

Monday was a lot easier that it should have been. Our lessons were cancelled because elke was sick, and the workers were working on the windows so i didn't really go anywhere. i did try to screw the bench together. and when it was all back together, one of the old boards on the back broke spontaneously and i almost cried. annoying. i also vacuumed ... twice. a plant got knocked over dirt everywhere. then i cleaned it all up, and when i putting the vacuum away i knocked the newly watered plant back over and got to clean it all up again. annoying.

Eventually it was barbara, irmtraud and my instagram coffee date for the week, which i scheduled at the same time as chorus. theodore is starting his independent singing thing - 3 kids who are learning to sing 3 part harmony in a regular sing lesson, so henry and felix and i got ice cream. i gave theodore a coin to get himself a kugel of icecream on his way home for later. cafe luis is not really my favorite, but we had a nice time, us three adults and three kids. henry went off on his own into town to join theodore, and felix and i got ourselves home, just in time to say goodbye to the workers for the day.

walking together

a few minutes later, i was doing a wood project of my own, trying to make the ostrich egg lamp shade fit on the lamp base. after 1 failed prototype, the second one was the correct size, but even worse, even uglier, and the process took a long time, and i eventually took my scarf and purse off. sometimes you just gotta stop what normal boring stuff you're doing to go do something else.

on the way in the door.

henry took that picture. he got home very early, because he couldn't figure out where to go because of a construction detour, and was crying and sad when he got back. i told him i was proud of him for having the wits to take himself home.

 

more hobbit for bedtime. when i read a chapter of the hobbit, even when it's really long, nobody falls asleep until i'm done. that's actually kind of cool, it means that we are all following the story together. it does mean i have to field weird questions well into the nighttime about whether goblins will snatch us in the night or why it was a "good thing" to burn the head warg.