chirpin' n' chillin'

After lunch, we had a wonderful time downtown at the museum of natural sciences. It is a museum of stuffed animals. But not the teddy bear kind - more like the "once-upon-a-time-howling-and-growling-and-prowling-but-now-dead-but-posing" type. I played a game with the boys so that we wouldn't just get bored after a few minutes. We flipped through the pages of the description of each specie, guessed the continent they would most likely be acclimated to and located the animal featured in the presentation in the scenery in front of us. The game worked nicely and the boys started to chirp exitedly as soon as they could find the animal. Looking around and excusing us for all the commotion and high pitched shrills, I noticed people were having double takes at us. I could imagine what went on in the brain of the average "Mrs. Biology-teacher-who-cant-get-enough-of-the-animals-even-after-class-hours" by the look on her face: my, my, aren't mothers getting younger and younger these days! It was kind of funny. Tomorrow after church, we are off to chill out elsewhere - just me and the kids. Short call from my own mother this afternoon reminded me of yesterday, and, in so-doing, of the work I am supposedly to have done before Monday. A lot to ask with such short notice. I could have been in the North Pole for the weekend (well, you get the point). Yep, I am not usually the type to be frustrated over a job situation after sleeping on it, when it is probably not worth wasting my energy on the mole hill, but I am just bewildered by the position I am in. I am clearly struggling at present, expect things to soon improve and in the meantime, will continue to give it my all with a positive attitude. So happy I am here watching over the boys - its a change of pace, a taste of the usefulness of having a routine, a can of "unexpected comments from the kids", and a lot of the time, blast.