Quiet Weekend just us girls
Posted By Kathleen David on May 6, 2006
Peter is off at the Nebulas this weekend. Harlan is getting the grand master award and Peter wanted to be there for him. So it is Ariel, Caroline and I for the weekend. Ariel has a bowling tourney tomorrow that she wants to participate in. We’re still figuring out today and what we are going to do. There are a couple of possibilities including a number of parks in the area. We just have to check to see which ones are open now and which are going to open after Memorial Day.
It was one of the early mornings as Caroline came into the bedroom and at 5:15 cheerfully informed me that it was morning and she wanted breakfast. I convinced her to go back to bed because the sun wasn’t up yet. At 6:30 she returned and pointed out that she could see the sun so it was time to get up. I have an early bird for a daughter. I guess I am just going to have to adjust to her schedule again.
I really need to sit down and do a calendar and a list to figure out what I need to get done when. I feel like I am missing a piece to the bigger time puzzle. I figure if I sit down and figure out what’s what on the plate currently I might remember what seems to be teasing me at the back of my head. All I know is I keep hearing Yoda say “Do or do not. There is no try.” And Kermit singing the Rainbow connection. Yeah there are a lot of Muppety kinds of things in my head.
I am grateful for such a pretty sunrise.
Saturday mornings as a kid. I remember it well. I was up at the crack of dawn, at least 5:30. Breakfaast wasn’t much of an issue. Even at 4 and 5 years old, I could pour a box of cereal into a bowl and eat it. I had to eat it dry though ’cause I couldn’t read the instructions on how to make the powdered milk. That was fine too. I wasn’t much of a milk drinker anyway.
I would wake my older brother and we would go downstairs and turn on the tv and start watching the early morning movie show, Sunrise Theatre. There was always some monster movie on. Mostly Godzilla, but also Giant radioactive spiders and toxic ants, aliens and an occasional western. Next came Roy Rogers, My Friend Flicka (remake’s out now), then the Saturday morning cartoons, till around 10 or 11. Then Sky King, Rin Tin Tin and a local teeange Dance show called “Teenage Frolics”. Okay, I’m probably misremembering a lot of this stuff, but to this day, I still love getting up early on Saturday.
You’re doomed, Kath. 8^)
Ahh, yes. I well remember the sound of the televsion being switched on and hearing “Thunderbirds” music coming from the lounge room at 6:00am. In the late 80s -early 90s (when my 3 boys were between 2 years and 7-8). The oldest one would put the tele on, and the three of them would snuggle up on the lounge to watch. They would come in to us once it was over.
Trillian
” really need to sit down and do a calendar and a list to figure out what I need to get done when. I feel like I am missing a piece to the bigger time puzzle. ”
The solution for me, is to put all “paperwork” on the cork board on the wall next to the phone. The Family all know that “if it’s not on the corkboard, it’s not happening”. This includes medical referrals, invitations, “assigment due” calendar (I have a Year 12student this year), music lesson & string ensemble timetables, dance timetables, hockey draws etc. I found that with 4 children, me studying (undergrad & postgrad), husband travelling for business heaps, I had to do something to keep all the balls in the air. It’s not so bad now that we have 2 out of school, and I’ve cut back on the number of committees that I used to be on.
Megan
I’m trying to locate some of the old “Teenage Frolics” tapes…I, too, recall watching Norfleet Jones and other great shaggers on the old black and white TV Saturday afternoons growing up in Raleigh!!