Slightly Sick Enough to Be Lazy

The kids are both slightly sick today.  Sick enough to miss school but not sick enough to want to take a nap.  Sick enough that when they both had nuclear melt downs last night I suspected something might be off.

I don't mind.  I like these lazy days.  They are on my bed watching Sesame Street while I shop online and pin things on Pinterest.  My new hobby these days.  It is a combination file cabinet/ craft ideas book.  It is totally becoming my new Facebook.

I am letting myself have a morning to chill after our crazy Sunday.  I am the music director for my church's children choir.  We had our big presentation yesterday.  This is a big deal for the kids anyway but for me things were complicated exponentially since our congregation is dual lingual.  Not bi-lingual, dual.  As in some people speak French and some speak English but not too many people speak both.  Myself included.  So I have spent the past three months teaching these kids songs in a language I don't speak.  We performed yesterday and they did great but it was a lot of work and I am glad it is over.

Stella is happy about missing school.  She tolerates it but is still not head over heals about her preschool.  I admit I am tolerating it but not head over heals either and I hope our attitudes are not linked.  I try to keep my attitudes to myself.

The latest drama as of late is snack time.  In Belgium they have a communal snack.  Stella as I have mentioned is painfully picky.  She does not like "wet" fruit.  So when they put a wet sticky apple in front of her or a mushy banana she wants no part of it.  They are fine with this but she is not allowed something she brought from home.  So she goes hungry.  So far this stand-off has lasted two months and she hasn't budged. Luckily this school does not punish kids for not eating their snack like my neighbor's son's school.  At his school they make you sit by yourself if you don't eat all of your snack.  Nothing teaches eating disorders like shaming.

Of course the Europeans think I am nuts for being concerned and they are confident that my daughter will fall in line with their program.  I wouldn't hold my breath but we shall see.

In other kid news Tiger is self potty training.  I have done this before and now realize diapers are MUCH easier than running a kid to a toilet every 30 minutes but this kid HATES being wet and begs to use the potty almost every time.  He is getting so big.