Walking Backwards

So now that I've gotten that painfully indulgent, politically oriented entry out of the way, I now feel able to continue on with writing about my normal life. That entry was a total road-block for the past week and I just couldn't write anything else without doing it. Now I have an entire week to catch up on and, as my time is short, I am just going to have to skim over it.

First, Nicholas loved the circus we went to on election night. The tent was almost totally empty so we got really great seats and there was a wide walk-way in front of us for Nicholas to run around on. He loved the contortionist and kept trying to put his legs behind his head after watching her, a feat that kept both us and the family next to us laughing. About half-way through the show, Nicholas had gotten so excited that we had to leave. He kept running under the seats and down the aisles and was just becoming to hard to keep out of trouble. It was probably best, too, because the circus was pretty far from our house leaving us very little time to get Nicholas ready for bed before his usual (and needed) bed time. They didn't have any big pretzels, anyway.

We skipped out on the trip to Houston last weekend because, believe it or not, Joe's Godmother died and we didn't think Nicholas could handle two funerals in a row, especially as this one was in Louisiana. We are going to see the family the weekend after Thanksgiving. Instead we spent the weekend working on our neglected house. I planted flowers in the front gardens and picked up the backyard. I also broke another light fixture bracket. Bad luck I guess. We have so much left to do to the house in the next two weeks that I am not sure we are going to have the place in order by the time our twelve guests arrive. Oh well, the only one who will really care is my mom and I can live with that for five days. I would like to get the place a little cleaner, however, before having my in-laws stay the week.

Ugh, I JUST got a phone call telling me that I need to sub for the helping parent at Nicholas' preschool tomorrow. I'm going to have to cut this entry short because I now have to go to the store to get the class snack and set everything up for the morning. I'll finish my week-long re-cap tomorrow, hopefully. I must talk about how my first yoga class was and how truly out of shape I am.