I’ve had a low grade headache for days. I can’t tell if it’s because I’ve been clenching my jaw or if it is because my sinuses have been seriously out of whack. My sinuses are out of whack because, let’s face it, 70 degree weather in December is just not right.
We went to see The Niece’s Christmas sing-a-long and she performed quite well. I’ll say this about The Niece–she’s the happiest kid and spreads that joy around. It’s cool.
Some of the kids looked like they’d rather be anywhere else and some seemed OK with being on stage. There was one little kid who pogoed her way through her song. I wondered if any of those kids would end up being the drama club geeks in high school.
In other news, I said hi to my father as I walked past him to slide into my seat. No response from him. Later in the parking lot, I handed him a box of china pieces and explained to him those pieces belonged at his house and not ours (had already told my mother this, but he was the one taking the box) and there was no response from him. At least he took the box and it didn’t crash to the ground. The better-half sat next to him at the concert and said when he made conversation with my father it was like my father was on a time delay–figuring out if he should respond. The better-half said he was trying to be nice since last weekend the ‘rents stopped by our house to give us a some Stollen and my father was sort of normal. You know, we try to be civil and nice but the fluctuations and the general lousy behavior wears a little thin. For crying out loud it has been almost 5 years, snap out of it.
As a mom of a drama club geek (who is not so geeky) I’d say it’s pretty hard to tell what direction a kid will take in elementary school. I’ve been surprised on more than one occasion. But they sure are cute at that age, and it’s easy to tell the ones who have self confidence.