Party of Nine: Scott's Weekend

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Scott's Weekend

Ran into Michelle and Jake at the Running of the Balls on Labor Day

I got intermittent photos of Scott over the weekend, living it up in Park City as a bachelor. Since I got to experience Cancun last weekend, I forced Scott to go and take some time. The weekend was planned around the Howard Jones concert which has been on Scott's calendar for months. Anyone else remember the 80's like Scott does? It was a good time, who can blame him? The HJ concert was everything Scott hoped for and more; small venue, the guy and a piano, and lots of storytelling. Of the two of us, Scott and me, one of us has a music degree, but the other one is the true music aficionado. He knows everything about music. I saw Scott through his office window yesterday, reviewing police reports with his big, fancy headphones on. Probably listening to something on vinyl.

Scott's brother Jeff joined him for the man-weekend. Don't they look manly? Wish the other brothers coulda been there too.

They golfed.

The kids and I went to a pet store where ferrets were half price. We all wanted to get one, and we even named him Enrique. When I sent this picture to Scott, his response was, "Do not."

The view up there is always dazzling. The leaves are already starting to turn.

Breakfast at that place...the Brazilian-owned cafe on Main Street...The Bridge, that's what it is. Scott told me he liked what I said on my last post about rediscovering who you were all along. For Scott, that happens when he goes to concerts. We both recommitted to try to do more of what reminds us of our younger selves. Because really, nobody falls in love with a middle-aged attorney worried about work, or an aging mother of 7 trying to get all the homework done. We love each other now, not so much because of our roles now, though we do love those roles, but because of who we are underneath all that. If you completely lose yourself to the daily grind, you can lose sight of everything. Life is beautiful, and as Ferris Bueller once said, "If you don't look up once in awhile, you're going to miss it."

1 comment:

Ernstfamilyfun said...: "Because really, nobody falls in love with a middle-aged attorney worried about work, or an aging mother of 7 trying to get all the homework done. We love each other now, not so much because of our roles now, though we do love those roles, but because of who we are underneath all that." I LOVE that!!! It's so true!!!; Monday, September 14, 2015 at 4:46:00 PM MDT

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We are a family of nine. We live at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. We belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We love life, learning, dancing, music, family time and traveling. Join us! We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll try to figure it all out together. I'm the mom, Circe, and I do the writing here. I am a teacher of ballet and violin, and I run a violin shop, but mostly I just enjoy being with my kids and helping them do what they do. Scott, the dad, does crowd control, undermines my authority with irresistible fun and works as an attorney to keep everyone in beach trips and ballet shoes. And the seven kids provide the entertainment. Come on, let's go!

Quotes I Love

“Happiness doesn’t mean that everything’s perfect, it simply means you decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Audrey Helpburn

“What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsible, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

Your beliefs don't make you a better person. Your behavior does.

“If you want a happy family, you are going to have to tolerate a lot of unhappiness.” Dr. Haim Ginott, child psychologist

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there someday." -from A. A. Milne

"Other people's problems are not my problems." -Me

"Dance is surely a most extraordinary fusion of thinking, doing, feeling. If we are concerned about the health of a child's mind, body and spirit, then how can we ignore the educational force of an art form which addresses all three at once?" _David Rockefeller

"Strong families require effort."
-Elaine S. Dalton at the Young Women General Meeting

"The function of study is to build character."

And a quote from my dad: "Successful people do things they don't want to do, when they don't want to do them." Thanks, Dad. That's been a great motivator!

"It was a result of circumstance that he learned the violin. Whether he liked it or disliked it is not the question." -Shinichi Suzuki

Good Quotes

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. -Mark Twain
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year. -Spanish proverb
The secret to having it all is knowing you already do. Or my dad's version: The key to happiness is wanting less.
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clark
Nobody ever became poor by giving. -Anne Frank
No one should ever underestimate the power of the arts. -Sheila Johnson, founder of BET
Life gives to the givers and takes from the takers. - a guy on The Big Give