navygreen: (School)
Whew, but my throat is sure hoarse. I spent about an hour tonight chatting with my friend Jan at Jack's school, and we had to yell to hear one another. Tonight was the Book Bingo & Family Dance night, and the boys had a good time. Philip and I never got a bingo, but both of the boys did (A.J. first, and then Jack got one in the last round).

Philip and I ran some errands during the afternoon, and I'm working on something to share soon. In addition to that, I shipped off some cookies and am currently in the middle of icing two more batches (different designs). I baked a bunch of projects on Monday, and I plan to finish icing all of them by tomorrow. I imagine that Sunday will involve lots of Valentine prep for Jack and his classroom. His party is on Monday afternoon.

His buddy, Bryce, has asked that he go along as a "bro" to the Prom next weekend at the Youth Center. Prom... yes, really! They're throwing a prom for all the younger kids, and Bryce wanted to make sure all his boys are going. Jack had been thinking about asking his "girlfriend" Angela to go anyway, so now they can meet up and hang out. Oh, and speaking of "hanging out," I heard that last night after soccer practice, as Bryce's mom Amber and I were walking out.


Amber: Maybe we can have Jack come over this week for a playdate.
Bryce: Mo-om! We don't have "playdates" anymore. We "hang out." We're not TODDLERS anymore!


Jack asked me a few weeks ago if we could have Angela and her parents "over for dinner sometime," and I about choked. He's 9! I'm so not ready for all of this!
navygreen: (Boys: fall guys)
I'm up, and I'm baking cookies. (Naturally!)

I had only three hours of sleep last night, and it was broken sleep at that. A certain feline was causing lots of mischief. *grumpy face* I gave up at 5:30am and got up for the day. Despite that, I attended a meeting at A.J.'s school, and I still met Jack for a lunch date at his school. I had a great time with "The Jack Pack!" (a term coined by A.J. for Jack and his friends), chatting with his new classmates over turkey and gravy. His friends really seem to love him, and that makes my heart swell!

While I was at Jack's school, his old teacher flagged me down and gushed about my teacher gifts from last year. She wanted to order 30 cookies for her students for next week, so that's what I'm baking now. With all the thunderstorms, it's taking an extra day for the icing to dry and fully harden, so I'll start doing the decorating tomorrow.

Meanwhile, A.J. has politely told me that he doesn't really want me to come eat lunch with him anymore. "Mom, I think everyone would be staring at me." I understand, as I suspected middle school would be too old to continue the tradition. Still, a little piece of my heart broke knowing how grown up he really has become. *sniffle*

In addition, A.J. has a middle school dance to attend next Friday night. I offered to teach him some moves, and the look on his face was one of pure horror! I told him I was just joking. He had been worried about not knowing how to dance, but I explained to him that most school dances were really more "stand-arounds" than dances. I slipped for a moment and actually quoted, "You can dance if you want to" (It's Safety Dance!), and again he let me know his utter embarrassment. "Mom, I don't think anyone else is going to know GLEE songs!"

Oh, my funny, funny serious-yet-still-silly preteen!

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