Week ending Aug 10, 2008: This week I made a few choices that may prove, in the long run, to be unsound. My first choice was that I agreed to let Chloe have a pet. After the Great Pet Debate in the car on the way home from OBX, I had told Chloe that she had to the feed the cat everyday if she wanted a pet. Well, she actually did it. Every day. She kept asking when we’d talk again about getting a pet and I kept saying “not until after the Chincoteague vacation”. Well, just about as soon as we walked in the door getting home from the vacation, Chloe started asking about pets again. I told her that I would have to research what kinds of pets are good for 5 year olds and that we’d get a pet by the time her birthday is here. After a smattering of research, I think a guinea pig is the front runner. I think I may regret this decision if we end up with an ignored pet that I have to feed and clean up after, but we’ll see. Chloe does seem to be more responsible about pets than I was as a kid.
My second possibly unsound decision this week was to sign up as the Sunday school teacher for the 3-8 year olds in the fall. Since Alex and Chloe have been going to Sunday school for 2 years now, I feel that it is time that we give back to the institution. The reason I may regret my decision is that I have some pretty serious social anxiety and being in front of a group, even a group of kids, does not agree with me. My plan is to just suck it up and plug through. I did a trial run this week and we only had 4 kids with 3 grown-ups in charge. Everything went very smoothly and I still felt like I’d been through the ringer afterwards.
The children’s birthdays have been a hot topic of discussion this week. They know that after my birthday, we start planning their party. This week they’ve each picked out their themes (Wall-E for Chloe, and Speed Racer for Alex), they’ve decided the guest list, and we’ve designed the cakes. We had some points of contention, for instance they wanted to invite as many friends as Natalie did (20+) and we decided that 6 boys and 6 girls was enough (including the 4 cousins that we always invite). Another point of contention was that they wanted the venue to be Chuck-E-Cheese. I can barely stand Chuck-E-Cheese when the place is almost empty, there is no way I was going to host a party of 14 five year olds there. So we settled on our backyard as the venue without too much of a fight. Next I need to create some invitations and pick a date.
Also this week, Chloe saw a picture of the Michelin man and asked 20 questions about who he is and why he looks that way. I didn’t have many answers, so I looked it up at this site: http://www.bobkestrut.com/2006/03/05/just-who-is-that-jolly-puffy-toff/
My second possibly unsound decision this week was to sign up as the Sunday school teacher for the 3-8 year olds in the fall. Since Alex and Chloe have been going to Sunday school for 2 years now, I feel that it is time that we give back to the institution. The reason I may regret my decision is that I have some pretty serious social anxiety and being in front of a group, even a group of kids, does not agree with me. My plan is to just suck it up and plug through. I did a trial run this week and we only had 4 kids with 3 grown-ups in charge. Everything went very smoothly and I still felt like I’d been through the ringer afterwards.
The children’s birthdays have been a hot topic of discussion this week. They know that after my birthday, we start planning their party. This week they’ve each picked out their themes (Wall-E for Chloe, and Speed Racer for Alex), they’ve decided the guest list, and we’ve designed the cakes. We had some points of contention, for instance they wanted to invite as many friends as Natalie did (20+) and we decided that 6 boys and 6 girls was enough (including the 4 cousins that we always invite). Another point of contention was that they wanted the venue to be Chuck-E-Cheese. I can barely stand Chuck-E-Cheese when the place is almost empty, there is no way I was going to host a party of 14 five year olds there. So we settled on our backyard as the venue without too much of a fight. Next I need to create some invitations and pick a date.
Also this week, Chloe saw a picture of the Michelin man and asked 20 questions about who he is and why he looks that way. I didn’t have many answers, so I looked it up at this site: http://www.bobkestrut.com/2006/03/05/just-who-is-that-jolly-puffy-toff/
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