Things I learned this week: (in Christmas colors for your reading enjoyment)
*To not walk into a music store and ask for a G-String. Rather, that one should walk into a music store and explain that one's daughter has broken a violin string, and that the string in question was in the key of G.
*That the light in our church's bathroom is excellent for spotting stray eyebrow hairs. I'm bringing my tweezers with me next Sunday.
*That no matter how much "pre-holiday" and frugal shopping I do to spread the pain out across a year, I still get suckered into the sales and gadgets that only come out at Christmastime. Next year, I will wait and crowd the stores with everyone else.
*That when it comes to lecturing my kids, less is more. It's going to be an early New Year's resolution. Pray for me.
*That I don't have patience to teach fifth graders. Give me a room full of four year-olds any day, but when an eleven year-old yammers on to his neighbor while I'm giving instruction and then asks, "What do we do?" I just about lose it.
*That I wish people would go back to sending cards with long, windy, braggy Christmas letters. I experience such a let-down when I open an envelope and find just a photo card. (Not that I don't love these as well--my refrigerator door will attest to that!)
*That it's never too late for anything. My 97 year-old D.U.P. friend, Della, just hired a physical therapist to come to her home because she wants to be able to stand from her chair without using her arms to pull herself up.
*That seeing a child learn to play a musical instrument is magical. Whether it's one of my piano students or Eliza's orchestra class, I get teary when I see all the hard work come together to create music.
*After re-watching the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice, that Matthew Macfadyen is a waaay better Mr. Darcy.
*That like Jane Austen's Mr. Bingley, it seems I know so many 'accomplished' women. Now that I am almost 40, I have decided to stop comparing myself to them. Cross your fingers for me. Next week I might be complaining again that if I meet another woman with five kids *and* a Ph.D. I'm going to scream...
5 comments:
...but Colin Firth makes a great Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary :)
(We just watched that again the other day. So funny!)
I can't wait to see Eliza's little performance and I loved your Christmas card this year!! You've motivated me to do one for next year.
Heather, you are absolutely THE best!
Amen to the latter Mr. Darcy. He has me bewitched, body and soul :-)
I love your posts Heather...they inspire me!
Ooh, I love Colin Firth. I am a tad older than you though Heather. I can prove this by stating that I hate the lighting in the church bathrooms because they show me my stray eyebrows AND the extra sags and wrinkles!
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