We had a nice full day yesterday. We started off by starting to finish off organizing all the boxes of clothes, but then needed to leave to a community fix up day. We were there for several hours (not dh and ds14), and got a lot done. Well, I didn’t do much except watch ds17 months while the kids worked. I feel that volunteering is an important thing for the kids to participate in, to see how they can help others with their time and energy. They are able to realize that they can help make a difference even if they are kids! Not that many people showed up, maybe because it was Labor Day. One of the organizers came over to ask if he could give the older girls a brand new stereo he had forgotten was there in the storage area they were clearing out, so I said it was fine. I didn’t realize that he really meant a stereo system! (Apparently he bought a load of 50 at an auction, sold a bunch, bartered a bunch more for a vehicle, and forgot that he had stored three more away.) It is really nice, but really big! So they ended up setting it up in the basement instead of their room, where everyone can enjoy it.
Straight from there I took ds to a dentist appt – his dentist was very generous in offering to stay late so he could see ds, since he knew that I made the appt seven weeks ago but then got the school calendar and found out they would be having school at the time of the scheduled appt. The entire building where the dentist was located was locked, but we found an unlocked stairwell and went up. There was just one problem – I couldn’t remember what floor the dentist was on, so at each floor, we walked around to see if he was there, then went back up the next flight of stairs. He was on the fifth floor – I was finding it kind of amusing picturing myself going up all these stairs (while having lots of strong Braxton Hicks), as fast as I could (which isn’t very fast at this point 🙂 because I didn’t want to be late.
Right after the dentist, ds and I went to the memorial service for a friend’s 20 year old daughter, who was tragically killed in a car accident. She was a very special young lady, who left an unusually large amount of good memories behind for someone that age (or even someone 20 years older).
Once I got home, I wanted to get back to the job of organizing all those clothes boxes we started on earlier, but got sidetracked when we went to set up the new stereo in the basement. When I got down there, I saw it needed some major reorganizing, so we got to work to get that done. I was pretty wiped out by dinner time!
I was joking to ds14 that it would be a good day to give birth, due to the name of the day, but that didn’t happen. 🙂 I actually expected that it would, due to some signs and strong feelings about it, but those feelings shifted to anxiety when I found out my midwife was an hour and a half away and wouldn’t be back until 8 am. And since dh had to leave for work at 6 am, it didn’t seem like a good time. 🙂 People don’t realize what a major part emotions play in giving birth or going into labor. A woman who feels emotionally ready will let go and labor can progress, but many times labor will stall or stop entirely when something happens to interrupt her feeling of security.
As for those boxes of clothes – that became today’s job! We have a few boxes left that were in the room where our toddler was sleeping that we didn’t yet get to, but otherwise, all the others in the house have been moved to the attic. So hopefully I can get it all finished up today. Though there’s always more to get done, this is a big project that I will be glad to know is finished, and will give everyone more space in their rooms, while making it easier for everyone to find/put away clothes that they are growing into or out of.
Avivah
