Blog Guilt

Ugh!
Now I've added Blog Guilt to my list of reasons to feel guilty. I think this is the longest I've gone without posting. Yes, I do realise that none of you are waiting at your computers just for me to post a picture or a recipe or an account of our day. You aren't, are you? Tell me none of you are doing that! But I still manage to feel guilty about not keeping the blog up to date.

So, some of the things we've done in the last few days are:

Had a music rehearsal in our home. 8 musicians and their equipment crammed into our living room is bizarre. I really should have taken a picture. It's especially funny when people end up playing each other's instruments because they are squashed in so close.{g}

We led the worship at church. It was one of those days when everything went really well. Jamie did brilliantly. Nothing went wrong. The instrumentation was fantastic, the people responded. I do hope God liked it.{g} I couldn't hear my voice in the monitor though and it's VERY hard to sing in tune when you can't hear yourself so I do hope THAT was ok.

Took Jack for a haircut. He is now quite shorn.

Grace went back to our old town to stay the weekend with her friend, Beccy and had an exciting time.

Fielded lots of queries from parents going on a trip I'm the organiser of. They were meant to have sent their cheques to me 3 weeks ago, but haven't and now there's a postal strike so they can't. All wanted to leave responsibility for this problem with ME and couldn't see that, after the 3'd request for payment went out early last week, they should have sent it THEN. ie BEFORE the scheduled and highly publicised postal strike.

These are the sorts of issues that make me never want to work with home-schoolers again. They ALL think they're entitled to be the exception to the rule. Any rule. All rules. {sigh} And anyone who organises an activity gets characterised as authoritarian.
I hate being The Man.

Got started planning the Kids' Praise Party our family is leading in 3 weeks.

Helped Jamie go through the songs for the evening celebration of music and testimony, called One Voice, which we're leading in 2 weeks. {gulp!} Scared stiff about this. This is the biggest, most important thing we've done for this church and it'll be the biggest 'gig' he's played since leaving the music business. The last one was the LA forum.{g} I know this is nothing like that and there is only basically an Audience of One, when it comes down to it, but oooohhhh hard not to get nervous. We figured out which instruments were needed when, scheduled the rehearsals, thought about arrangements, wondered how our sound system would cope etc etc

Sent multiple emails full of questions to our ASDAN moderator who's helping us through the work (portfolios of evidence) for these awards and qualifications. I STILL don't quite understand quite what we are doing but I'm getting closer! {g}

Managed to upset Grace's college tutor when she called yesterday. I don't know how I do it sometimes. I thought I was just asking questions about why Grace was doing certain things in her course. Tutor assumed I was criticising her and ended the call abruptly and with an icy tone. Jamie is calling the director today to arrange a meeting with all of us, including Grace, who is getting bored and asking not to go back. Eeek! Not looking forward to that meeting.

Took Jack to Athletics. And the Library. And Scouts. And his small group. I'm looking forward to when this child can learn to drive.
Or am I?{g}

Another busy day ahead, so I'd better get showered and breakfasted! See you later!