It was a "Sleep in Sunday" - rare, well deserved and quite needed. I couldn't stay in bed any later than 10ish, but lil' Grunt was still sawin' logs at 11am and needed to be woken up. I was requested (and then reminded several times) by him the previous night to wake him up singing,
"Good Morning, Good Morning, It's time to rise and shine....good morning, good morning to you". You know,
that one or a reasonable facimile.
Sooo, after my shower and coffee in my sweetest singing voice, woke up my sweet prince. We had a yummy Sunday breakfast, I'm well known for my Sunday breakfasts, often referred to as FEASTS. Today we were in a hurry so I stuck to Egg McMuffins and juice then had Omar jump in the bath. Kids his age get pretty dirty on a daily basis, lines of dirt on sticky hands, sand in hair, sand in there, sand-sand everywhere! (Welcome to the rapidly changing thought process of a parent)
Fed, clean and off we go to our 1:30 play date. Which involved the kids having a
childish blast on swings, a game of Kerplunk, a snack and then the mommy's met up at the school where we mapped out the play yard for the new painting of hopscotch, four square, line game, race track, basketball court, 100 square, snail hopstoch (a variation of hopscotch), the Peace area (a mediations spot), the kindergarden game area, where the newly voted in mascot would be (hearing the kids roar with delight when it was announced at last week's school News Show), the welcome area, the fund raising for the new play structure was a success and will be placed adjacent to
the existing one, so placement of the two teatherballs (I was happy to hear we could afford these and was pining for a certain location :-)) will go on the other side with the goal of maintaining as much green space as possible. We also discussed purchasing a couple more nets. Posterier to the existing soccer feild it was agreed would be the secondary soccer area for younger kids. Currently a rotation is used to separate the grades....Hilarious getting the guys to do the 100 square court, they were doing a great job entertaining the kids showing them how to shoot basketballs and had managed to avoid any of the real work surrounding the project and immediately looking for ways out when we summonded them :-), but did a fantastic job (correction,
near PERFECT job actually :-)) - so tomorrow it will be great to see if the kids use it. No sooner than I had finished chalking out the last of three four square courts were the children already playing on it. I was so impressed that Grey's mom had really done her homework and actually visited one of the cities most decorated and well used playground to bring some ideas to our recess zone. T
here was even an in school survey done to identify what the children were wanting more of. More careful planning surrounding the existing rotation structure of age groups was incorporated as well. I suggested Google Earth if we needed to take a final look at the project in scale. Omar and I use Google Earth to zoom around the planet and check out where mommy has been.
There are other plans for the tobogan hill and timber to be delivered in the next week or two for the quiet zone. Ah... :-)
Happiness IS.
It's a truly wonderful school....Even our Mountain Biking Community - I made loose plans to meet up with a local mtbiker, we missed each other, but later that week Omar and I met up with him and his wife - she turned out to be the school librarian - what a surprise! She also happens to be in charge of our monthly school news letter. Omar and her remembered each other well (as that day happened to be library day) and therefore had lots to talk about on our very long ride (Ricardo was happy to see the next generation of mountain bikers and she was impressed at how long my little guy held out - I guess all those years of taking him along on my hikes and bikes have conditioned him well). They too have enjoyed night rides, which I would like to plan again real soon. :-)
