Blaine is in Manila this week to do a few stories - back on Saturday - and I'm having a more productive and relaxed week than usual. I'm working on a pitch to Self magazine and editing a friend's book proposal, and doing a little volunteer work for Arno's school, Willowbrook. When Lucinda has afterschool activities, I send Arno to Willowbrook's flexible afterschool program, which gives me a few more hours to get things done.
Sometimes Blaine's trips exhaust my parenting skills, but the kids have been great this week, even in my morning rush to get Lucinda to school by 8:15am.
Lucinda, as she approaches age 6, is a pleasure to be around these days. She's become increasingly flexible about choosing outfits for school, does her homework without nagging, and is feeling very confident about her reading and school experience.
She does have brief bad moods - typically if I pick her up from school and say 'no' to something she wants immediately - but she is snapping out of that moodiness more rapidly.
Which reminds me that Lucinda made up a funny rhyme the other day, to a tune she often sings about her friends or her parents:.
"Mommy and her 'No', in a tree.
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love, then comes marriage.
Then comes 'No' in the baby carriage."
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