Still showing up
Him: Are you sure you’re gonna come?
Me: I haven’t missed one yet, have I?
Him: No…I just wanted to make sure.
It’s been super busy here for a multitude of reasons, least of which is that the kid is winding up his school year.
This means that there’s one event after another, of varying degrees of entertainment.
The first was his end of year recital, where he played a cover of Billie Eilish’s Lovely on the guitar.
I should mention that the Firecracker’s never missed a single one – which is something considering that not all the kids were as talented as mine.
She’s the best, truly.
As for the song he chose, I’d never heard the song before and it was pretty maudlin, which was a bit concerning.
But, he did a great job and was pretty jazzed about it, so I just enjoyed it for what it was worth.
The next was his dance recital, which was absolutely adorbs.
I couldn’t get a good clean shot for video, but another parent was able to get some vids of them dancing.
Another one was the kid’s last publishing party, where the parents come in and check out all the artistic stuff that the kids were working on for the past few months.
I brought a huge jug of Dunkin coffee; several of the other parents brought a ton of delish looking carbs.
I’m proud to say that I didn’t have any but, man, did I want to.
In any case, with the portfolio of work due in just over a week, it’s been stressful around here.
Really didn’t have the 2-3 hours to spare this morning on top of the previous two events I went to.
But I told you once that it’s so important for little kids to have their parents show up to things. And there’s no “parents” here, it’s just me.
So, I showed up.
Gotta say, it was sweet to see him so happy to see me in the classroom.
There were another three or four events that were also end-of-year related but I’ll tell you about those in the next entry.
Location: Hoboken, playing Codenames and dreaming of more food
Mood: hot and bothered
Music: Always in my head space but I know some day I’ll make it out of here (Spotify)
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