We didn’t have good luck with the Perseid meteor shower last night, what about you? We did go out at bedtime (from about 9:00 until 10:30) and saw maybe half a dozen. The sky was so bright with the moon, it was hard to see much. We planned to go out again, but when I woke up at 2 am it was overcast… and again at 4 am, and again at 6 am. We were sad that we didn’t get to see the peak of the shower, but we might try again tonight.
The Perseids are particularly sentimental for me. Ten years ago this week, PisecoDad and I were staying with my parents, getting ready to move away and get married. As the household started winding down for bed one night, I started talking about the meteor shower and peeking out the windows and getting excited that the night was crystal clear. So excited that I wound up talking my mom into star gazing, and she, PisecoDad and I drove out to a little lake about ten miles away to sit on the shore and ooh and ahh. When our wedding rolled around not quite two weeks later, my mom included that night’s adventures in her portion of the ceremony, using it as an example of how her children were always inspiring and teaching her. The words meant so much to me then, and even more to me now that she’s not here to say them again.
After I spent the whole night last night peeking out the windows in the hopes of a good show, I was pretty tired this morning! We did a little light reading, math play (JediBoy wanted to read and discuss Anno’s Math Games again, something he really enjoyed last week) and some history reading. Then, since we’re reading about “biblical times” for history this week (and I have to rephrase a bit of the writing there to make sure I treat the Christian god in the same way - with no more or less reverence - than I treated the Egyptian gods) and we’d just read the story of Joseph, we snuggled in bed to watch one of my all-time favorite musicals: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was a wonderful way to spend the morning, especially since the musical was one of my mom’s very favorites too.
After lunch we went over to Leigh’s house for the first time in nearly three weeks - she’d been taking care of two extra boys whose babysitter was on vacation for the past two weeks. JediBoy and Nate found themselves having to renegotiate their relationship (who got to make the rules!) at first, but soon settled into happy play. This was the scene for a chunk of the afternoon: the boys watching Mario, and BabyGirl eying their food!
This evening we passed the time laughing at the FAIL blog, watching Bones while the kids played in the nursery, and then working on our super-duper project.
We did a little wiring tonight, as you can see. I’ll show you in the morning what it looks like from the inside…
Sounds like a great day. That “Fail Blog” is too darn funny.
