The trouble with vacations is always re-entry. I was going to take time off from school between the end of that seminar and the Fourth, and now all week I've been thinking, "Get back to it you have to get back to it you'll never graduate if you don't get back to it." Also, last weekend's reorganizing project was not as successful as the one before. The boys' room looks great, but I am still dealing with the stored kids' clothing that was displaced when we moved the Legos into the secret room -- "dealing with" in the sense of "sighing heavily at the bags stacked all over my bedroom while thinking 'gee, I'm not sure how to organize those sensibly.'"
I've been spinning my wheels and feeling frustrated about spinning my wheels, and so I'm going to do a small successes post.
1. Yesterday I took six children to cover a friend's hour in the Adoration chapel, and it went well. The boys' friend Jack had lunch with us and I invited him to come along, thinking he'd say, "Gotta run home now!" But instead he said, "What's it like?" Joe said, "Great!" Jack said, "Sure, I'll come." And he liked it. How about that?
A small success within a small success is that I have been reading Joe the book of Esther this week. He thinks my favorite part is just as funny as I do -- he laughed and laughed when I read it to him, and asked me to read it aloud to everyone in the chapel. I'm feeling good about sharing it with him and getting such an enthusiastic response.
2. Today I read the first chapter in my book on multilevel modeling. This is the approach I'll need to use to analyze my dissertation data, and I have to understand it before I can crunch my numbers. Chapter one = one small step forward.
3. I lost the first five of those irksome ten pounds.
More small successes here.
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