So this last week has been a little crazy. Good, but really ...odd. DH had Memorial Day off, but all the kids were gone, except S2. So....life with an only child is NOT for me! Three days of entertaining him wore me out! The funny thing is, when the other kids are home, he doesn't *need* that much attention. Although with 6 people, it is pretty easy to break up the person to person moments. We took him to a service at the local cemetery presented by the local VFW. He was quite happy to receive one of the shells/casings(?) from the 21 gun salute. And he was also quite happy to let go of the balloons as prayers were said. If only I had all the other kids home...it is good for them to be reminded that yes, people do make sacrifices for them every single day.
Then yesterday......oh. wow. Field trip! D2's class (and 3 other grades) went to Seattle to see the King Tut exhibit. Never mind the kids who get carsick, dead batteries, over heated vehicles (yeah....that was all my car!) But we made it there, we made it back, children were returned to their parents, and I went home to a glass of wine!
Now the exhibit itself was one of those ........wow.....moments. Not in an exhilarating, adrenaline kind of way, but in one of those the mysteries of the earth and our history will forever be opening up to us at some level unthought of before. I mean, you are standing in front of a thing that dates back to Ramses. You look at this and think, "hmmm, wasn't he the guy Moses had to deal with?" And the kids are like "yeah....didn't you go to school?" And you look at it and think "...........this is as old as Moses. Really. AS OLD AS MOSES!" And you look at your daughter and say, "and you though my Bif Naked cd was old" :)
The other thing I came away with was the amount of EFFORT that went into the creation of these items. Forget the culture, religion, age, etc. Looking at those pieces made me feel as though I lived in the laziest age of the entire history of man. A coffin for a prince's cat was made with more care and attention than anything I've seen in my life. A coffin for a cat. It was beautiful. The jewelry was handcrafted with out the aid of the gadgets we have today and was 5 times bigger! A more humorous example......the toilet seat! Sure, it was square in shape, but it was a toilet seat, once you get past the shape, completely recognizable as such. Again....it was how old? And we run to wally-world and they break after 2 or 3 years. No pictures were allowed, but I am so hoping to make it back before it leaves. If you are interested, it leaves the Pacific Science Center in January 2013. This is the last stop for the exhibit, and it will be returning to Egypt, so if you have a budding Egyptologist in the family, do try to make it!!
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