This past weekend was pretty normal. The worship and music committee met Saturday morning at 9, then I practiced. On the way home I stopped at Kohl's to spend the $10 Kohl's cash I had earned when I bought the capris. After lunch I cleaned up the old porta-crib we used when Emily was a baby. Why did I do that, you might ask. Because on Memorial Day E, K and e arrive for a 2-week working vacation! E will telecommute, K will take the ferry to his San Francisco office, and I will care for e in my home instead of hers. I will enjoy being in Alameda for an extended stay, Randy will get time with e, E and K will bask in the coolness (if one can bask in coolness). Everyone wins! More on this later.
Tomorrow I return home for the choir's dress rehearsal with instrumentalists for their performance Sunday of Mark Hayes' Requiem. I have loved working on this music, playing along with a professional recording of the piece to have some idea of how Julie will direct it, but this is not the same thing as following a live director with live singers. So E and K are covering child care for a couple of days to enable me to make the rehearsal. The 6 movements of the Requiem will be spread out through the service so listeners are not overwhelmed, though it seems to me that this music is very accessible even with some Latin mixed in with English.
As those of you with children may recall, just when you think you have a routine established the baby says, "Gotcha!" And so it is with e. She seems to be waking a bit earlier each day, perhaps as the sun lights the room earlier. Black-out curtains are being discussed!
The family comes to Alameda - interesting job situations that let everyone do that! Any chance you'd allow for drop in visitors to meet this little one you've been telling us about???
ReplyDeleteCertainly! I expect we will take a walk every morning, though I can't predict the exact time, so that might be fun to do with you. Or we can visit in the living room, where I expect to spend a lot of time with her on the floor.
ReplyDeleteI think it will be most interesting to watch how you interact on the floor. Today a colleague brought her 10 month old granddaughter to the office and we got to watch her on the floor playing with 2 blocks for about 10 minutes. We talked with the baby, and remembered to keep our hands in our pockets. I think adults don't always do a good job of letting children play without interrupting.
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