AES is awesome. This week, they flew in Georgia Heard, a writers workshop guru, to work with the entire middle school humanities department. Today, she asked us to do an exercise the we might do with our kids called "Fall in Love Three Times a Day." The idea is that you write about three things you have fallen in love with each day. Could be a cup of coffee or a flower you pass by on the way to work. Here is one of mine.
Full grown men slamming their bodies into one another with the force of a freight train. Football is back. Specifically, Texas Aggie Football. Watching a sporting event being played on the other side of the world should not give you butterflies in your stomach, but there they were this morning. And usually, getting scolded by my wife is not a great start to any day, but it is when she is chiding me for excessive celebration, like Becky did at 5:15am today. Aggie Football is back, and I am a squealing 15 year old girl in full on, emotionally reckless love.
Please don't break my heart!
Becky's Perspective:
Just for you all to know this is what REALLY went down this morning:
4:30 am: Alarm!! Isaac squeels and runs into the other room, closing the door behind. I check the clock and my pulse to make sure I'm not having a nightmare. Nope, it's really happening. I drift back to sleep, thankful that I still have another hour to sleep.
5:00 am: LOUD claps. Seriously, I think Isaac has seal fin sized hands. Thankfully there was no barking.....yet. Once again, I go back to sleep. 30 more minutes sounds great.
5:15 am: Girl screams come from the living room. I am angry. I open the door and in my teacher voice say: "Isaac this is not ok, you're being too loud"
Isaac: "close the door"
Me: "It IS closed!"
Isaac: It's ok (this is also how we do things in India. Anytime someone tells you "no" you just have to say: "No, it's ok" and you can go on doing whatever it is you're not supposed to be able to do. I think that was Isaac's rationale)
5:17: Just as I start to drift to sleep, Isaac comes in to kiss me and apologize....no wait, he kissed me because the Aggies scored and that's what good Ags do. Definitley worth waking me up for AGAIN!
Anyway, I was able to get about 10 more minutes of sleep before it was time to get up.
It was a 2 cups of coffee kind of morning. At least A&M won! Gig'Em Aggies!
Later this afternoon: Isaac watches a replay of the same game he watched this morning and then it's time for the highlight reel.....of the same game. Awesome
Full grown men slamming their bodies into one another with the force of a freight train. Football is back. Specifically, Texas Aggie Football. Watching a sporting event being played on the other side of the world should not give you butterflies in your stomach, but there they were this morning. And usually, getting scolded by my wife is not a great start to any day, but it is when she is chiding me for excessive celebration, like Becky did at 5:15am today. Aggie Football is back, and I am a squealing 15 year old girl in full on, emotionally reckless love.
Please don't break my heart!
Becky's Perspective:
Just for you all to know this is what REALLY went down this morning:
4:30 am: Alarm!! Isaac squeels and runs into the other room, closing the door behind. I check the clock and my pulse to make sure I'm not having a nightmare. Nope, it's really happening. I drift back to sleep, thankful that I still have another hour to sleep.
5:00 am: LOUD claps. Seriously, I think Isaac has seal fin sized hands. Thankfully there was no barking.....yet. Once again, I go back to sleep. 30 more minutes sounds great.
5:15 am: Girl screams come from the living room. I am angry. I open the door and in my teacher voice say: "Isaac this is not ok, you're being too loud"
Isaac: "close the door"
Me: "It IS closed!"
Isaac: It's ok (this is also how we do things in India. Anytime someone tells you "no" you just have to say: "No, it's ok" and you can go on doing whatever it is you're not supposed to be able to do. I think that was Isaac's rationale)
5:17: Just as I start to drift to sleep, Isaac comes in to kiss me and apologize....no wait, he kissed me because the Aggies scored and that's what good Ags do. Definitley worth waking me up for AGAIN!
Anyway, I was able to get about 10 more minutes of sleep before it was time to get up.
It was a 2 cups of coffee kind of morning. At least A&M won! Gig'Em Aggies!
Later this afternoon: Isaac watches a replay of the same game he watched this morning and then it's time for the highlight reel.....of the same game. Awesome
