It’s my turn to be the solo parent, but only for the weekend, not two weeks like my husband just slogged through. I bought some unusual breakfast foods, and we have a project to keep us busy, so far moral has been high (accept for one Mommy tantrum when my little one wouldn’t go down the hall alone to use the bathroom – someone must have told him ghost stories; he refused to cross the shadows where the hall light stop before the bathroom light starts. I was appalled by our electric bill last month and have meanwhile been carefully turning off lights.)
This morning I’ve gotten the birthday cake mostly asembled, its an angel food cake with a trench cut out the middle, filled with frozen strawberries, bits of cake, and glued together with jello. The fault line will be disguised with whipped cream. At 3pm the Lego team comes over to eat the cake, and watch the DVD about their project and some suggestions for presenting it to the judges.
In the F.I.R.S.T. Lego League, the kids have a "mission" to have their robot do certain challenges on a game board, and they have a "project" to visit a public building, examine where it’s energy comes from then make suggestions for conserving energy, which they have to communicate twice, once to the public, then once to the judges (including how they told the public to save energy).
So, our big project for the day is to get ready for the FLL meeting at our house, since I don’t have the key or authorization code to use my husband’s job site like we usually do. The other parents are sticking around for this meeting, so I think I can handle the 10 little boys. Hopefully they will go home before the sugar hits their bloodstream ;-) Actually, all they need to get rowdy, is to be together, we usually feed them veggies and dip or cheese and crackers, and they still bounce off the walls.