re-entry

This is Twelfth Night. I had intended to serve a nice family feast, followed by the removal of our Christmas decorations. Dennis was happy to open his 12th day of Christmas gift this morning, a set of 4 matchbox planes to go with his aircraft carrier and airport. I wonder how it will be for him to not get a gift every day after this... Here I sit beside our still fully decorated tree, nursing my headache of 4 days' duration. I haven't been in constant pain, but I have had an on-and-off headache for quite a while now. I had a taste of re-entry into the real world today--church Wednesday night classes resumed tonight, and I was the only teacher for my group out of the usual 4 that came tonight, and if they hadn't called me yesterday to warn me and ask if I'd be there, I'd have stayed home as well. Dennis was happy to go back out into the world after the long Christmas break, and he's thrilled for school to start back tomorrow. I suppose I'm ready to get back to everything. I'd be more ready if my health would perk up a bit. Dennis, on the other hand, seems to be doing so much better. He's still hanging on to a cough and still seems to miss some of the things we say to him, but his energy and appetite are at their usual high.

Tonight we watched a show that talked about talent, which they defined as "something you are good at and like to do", so Dennis said his talents were "playing and eating". Yes, he's very good at those things! Dennis also learned the meaning of the word 'distraction' I think. I asked him if he'd had fun playing with his Daddy while I was gone, and he said "yes, but Daddy and I got distracted a lot." Though I tried to get him to expound on this, he couldn't, but he did ask me what it was to be distracted. I told him that a distraction was something that took your attention away from what you were doing, and I gave him a couple of examples ('suppose you told me to look at something that you were holding, and I was driving, but I turned to look--you would have distracted me from driving'). I was surprised when 'distraction' was the lesson my group of 5th and 6th graders learned in their large group session tonight! Dennis is ahead of his time.

Here's hoping I feel great tomorrow, that I muster up the strength and energy to get the things done that need to be done, and that Dennis has a wonderful day at school. We shall see what transpires.