Quick Run Down of Events

In spite of my personal doldrums, the day was a fairly vibrant one. I’m going to list it in stream-of-consciouness note form and as always, it is the tip of the iceberg:

• Sean and Brendan are having an energetic conversation about their ongoing Bionicle story — what time is it again???
• Clare played the piano and listened to La Traviata (not at the same time)
• Kieron played outside and talked to me for a long time about Sliders — informal narration.
• He also told me that now that we’ve let up restrictions on video game time, he is not as interested in playing for hours. I’ve noticed this myself. He started off playing for hours at a time and is now choosing to go off and do other things, and is also being more creative in how he spends the video game time. For instance, he spent a couple of hours today configuring his computer so that it would play games for the little ones — games he enjoyed in his early years, like the Broderbund Living Books and Putt-Putt. He showed persistence and ingenuity and kindness in this endeavour, and its about time another computer tech expert starts blooming in this house now that Liam is gone during the year!
• Brendan is up to page 40-something in his new book.
• Aidan as mentioned earlier pushed his Tonka truck all the way to the top of our street. His conversation was surprisingly advanced: “which direction should we go in?” “For a second ago I thought…” (Cute!!)
• Kevin and I took Aidan for two walks in the wheelchair.
• We’ve gotten a bit past the board books — the little ones listened to The Napping House and Teddy Bear Picnic. Progress!
• Brendan is reading “Socrates meets Marx” and just asked me who used the term “The Big Lie”Isn’t Google great! He also spent his customary weekly Tuesday time checking out the NFL web site and the Bionicle web site.

Games:

• Puttputt goes to the Moon
• Harry and the Haunted House
• Mario Party 7
• Super Monkey Ball 2

Liam mentioned a concert he attended at college where he heard a musical version of Lamentations. I found this article — but it mentions FOUR composers and I don’t know which one he heard . But the way he described it sounded intriguing and I would like to follow up. I remember reading a book by Madeleine L’Engle talking about Canon Tallis and wonder if perhaps that was the composer Liam heard.

We said a family decade of the rosary, Aidan leading, and Liam and I said a Rosary and a Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I managed to clean the kitchen a bit though it still looks pretty dreadful, and make sausages and pancakes for breakfast. In general, the day went well.