December 5, 2006 - Tuesday
Mommy is away all this week and I'm alone with the boys, so this evening I took them to my Conservation Commission Meeting. I didn't really have to go. I'd confirmed enough other Commissioners would be there to avoid any quorum problems. But it was the first meeting for a new member and the agenda was very short, so I brought them along. Through the day I figured if we ended up going that I'd just bring the portable DVD player and stick them in a side room somewhere. But as the meeting got close and we got our things together I realized that Harry still needed to do his homework and figured that Jeremy is fine almost any time he can draw. And rather than putting the boys off in some other room where I couldn't see them, they just sat at a side table right in our conference room. I figured that I'd play it by ear and leave if I had to. Yet aside from whispering to each other several times, the boys were just great. They seemed to understand about being respectful and letting others talk about their important plans for building houses and so forth. Of course, they were close enough so I could lean back and whisper in their ears, and I did do that a few times, but I think it worked out OK. Was it mean or overbearing of me to make them sit through an hour of adults talking? I do wonder about that. But as I've maintained with concerts, sitting still and being respectful are really learned skills for little children and maybe the was a good, fairly low risk chance to work on that.

Besides, Jeremy perked right up when one of the proponents before the Commission put a plot plan up on the board. I had wondered if the boys would have been at all interest in these meetings I go to, at least peripherally, and maybe they were. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Harry turn to see what was going on whenever I spoke, and Jeremy must have stared at the plot map for a good couple of minutes. After the meeting he said he'd also noticed the one that the other proponent had put on the table.
Maps .


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