Stormy weather

It was a tough day at work. Then I get home and we've got to get everyone ready to head down to Annapolis for a board meeting at the CCM (nonprofit children's museum) where we're both on the board and the kids play while we have a meeting. But as we're getting everyone all packed up, the skies opened with a tremendous thunderstorm. 

So naturally we put our plans on hold so that we could run upstairs and watch the storm for about 20 min with the kids. They really like seeing the trees sway and the raindrops and the lightening. They're working on not being afraid of thunder. 

As we were ready to go again, we got a call that the meeting was cancelled. Good. As disappointed that J. was to miss the museum, it was the best thing for us all since we were tired and I have a sinus headache again. We watched a movie and ate ice cream instead.

best part of the day: watching more episodes of Lost on dvd

worst part of the day: long yucky morning meeting

Thoughts of the day: Being active in the community is important for my husband's political career, though we're the kind of people that do it anyway. For most things he goes to represent and participate and I stay at home with the kids (young kids and adult meetings don't mix). I do MOMS Club without him (duh) and we do the CCM together. A once a month meeting for the CCM doesn't sound like much but it's really hard to go most times. Something always comes up or the kids are cranky or whatever. We try to push through it and go anyway. But at times like that I wonder why we're overlooking our desires and our kids best interests. For the greater good? Do we really make much of a difference? The impact of our participation isn't that great, really. Life would be easier if we just stayed home. But no one said this was going to be easy...