Kiss My Knits!

The meeting was less than a stellar success. My co-leader for tonight was also the cookie mom, so she had to load cookies into peoples cars, which meant I had to run it alone. The girls blew through the conversational lesson very quickly and with little attention. In fairness, I had very little for them to do besides talk and make a few faces, and I didn’t factor our three chatterbugs into this. They’re charming girls, but if there’s one thing those spirited little pixies don’t need, it’s tips on how to strike up a conversation.

The best part was coming out afterwards. The girls helped clean up some, in the scattershot way that seven-year-olds do, and I didn’t press it as much as I should have. I wound up cleaning up heaps of glitter, so we got out about 7:15. It was dark.
Emily looked up and said, “What are those dots?”
“Those are stars!” I said, “Look, there’s the constellation Orion!”
“What does it look like?”
“You see those four stars, with the line of three stars in the middle? The three stars are Orion’s belt, and the constellation is Orion, Orion the hunter. People think he looks like a hunter, hunting other constellations across the sky.”

“…Orion…”

She kept looking, to the point that she tripped a little as we were walking because she couldn’t take her eyes off the sky. So we stopped and watched for a while. We looked again at home. She was really interested. It was very nice.

I’m really wiped, and may not go to knitting tonight. We’ll see after she goes to bed.

Emily lost another tooth last night, this one on the top right as you look at her. She knew it was loose, but in contrast to last time, she didn’t make a big fuss. She was eating, it came out, she put it in her tooth box, and came back to tell me the tooth fairy was coming tonight before I knew anything had even happened. Okay then!

I had to go out to a Girl Scout council meeting last night, so I wasn’t there when she went to bed. However, Steve asked her if she’d rather put her tooth box in the hall so the tooth fairy wouldn’t have to come into her room. Her highness doesn’t like to be disturbed at night. So that’s what they did. I was pretty tired when I finally came to bed. The tooth fairy came and did put a coin in her box, but when Emily woke up, the tooth was on the bathroom counter. Oops! We decided that probably the tooth fairy had to use the potty and accidentally left it. We figured she’d be back to get it later.

On the Brownie front, I decided it would be better to do the animals badge in the Spring, when there was a chance of, you know, actually SEEING some animals. Instead we’re doing “People are Talking.” Considering my daughter’s issues, this’ll be interesting!

What we’ll do.