I am so tired and nearly forgot to update for NaBloPoMo so I’m going to give you a bullet point portrait of a Friday.

• Breanna always hears me when I get up for Breakfast Club mornings which means she’s awake from 5:30 am onward. In order to give George a break from super-early-morning-Breanna I took her with me to the school. She enjoyed a waffle for breakfast and then played in the gym before curling up with some of the books from daycare while I finished cleaning up. She then spend the rest of the day being EXHAUSTED. This kid needs to learn how to sleep until at least 8 am because the lack of sleep will either kill her or turn me into a raging alcoholic.
• Hayley went on a field trip to the Cosmodome where the class got to build a Newton vehicle for a rally, watched a film on the solar system, saw models of the solar system, and even looked at the sun through a special filtered telescope. When she first brought the permission slip home I was SUPER excited. Then I read that they didn’t require volunteers. I’m highly jealous. (I went for a job interview on the space camp side several years ago and it was the best interview of my life, no joke.)
• I had fully intended to put the kids to bed early. Usually they stay up until 9 pm on a Friday or Saturday night but between Breanna’s exhaustion and the fact that Hayley was up at 6 am and on a field trip almost all day, I was thinking the usual 8 pm bedtime. Then at 7 pm Hairspray came on TV (the 2007 version) and I had never seen it. Being a musical loving girl the songs immediately caught my attention, the kids were being SO good in their room, and I ended up watching the whole thing and getting them to bed at 9:30.
• In related news, why can’t we burst into song at random like they do in musicals? Singing and dancing would be awesome.
• I sat and enjoyed a beer and some chips while watching “Blue Bloods” and I have to say that as much as I love “The Walking Dead”, I think that “Blue Bloods” is my favorite new fall show. The fact that Donnie Wahlberg is in it is only part of the reason. It just really is a good show.
• Since I was also up at 5:30 am I am really sleepy. I think that’s it for now.

However, one last thing. As I was looking at all kinds of things to do with Remembrance Day, I found this video which – I fully admit – brought tears to my eyes. It also made me really proud to be a Canadian. “Eyes right” is a command used by marching troops that is usually reserved for dignitaries who are present. It’s an extremely high compliment to have troops do an “eyes right” for you.

A young boy in Belgium was watching a parade at a memorial service when the Canadian troops passed by (aside: How CUTE is that little boy? He was so excited and I love his repeated thumbs up to – I assume – his parents!) and when they saw this little kid saluting them they did indeed give the “eyes right” command for him. What an honour and what a special moment. I love Canada.

Can’t keep a dry eye when I watch it.