Whew! Today was a whirlwind of a day. Kenric had to be out of the door this morning at 645a at which time I got up to check and respond to my already full email inbox. After his brief meeting he was heading back home to pick up me and the kids to be one of the first inline at the passport office. We didn’t quite make it when we wanted (got there about 930) but the line wasn’t to bad. It was an extremely easy process. Kenric and I were required to show our ID (no youth passports without both parents there) and sign each form. We gave him each of their birth certificates and he took their photos. Simple as that. We paid the $360 fee and that was that. The nice passport processer even gave us the extra photo that he printed which I will need for visas (if they are needed) so that is one less thing I have to remember to do.
After the applying for the kids passports we rushed back home to meet the kids music instructor. He comes to the house on Tuesdays to teach piano, guitar and violin. He is wonderful with the kids. After lessons was lunch and then a wash and grease everybody down in preparation for our photo shoot.
Believe it or not the Brooks family will be featured in the July issue of Black Enterprise Magazine as the Financial Fitness Contest Winners. We had and interview with the lady writing the article as well as a three hour discussion with a financial advisor from Merrill Lynch yesterday. So today they sent over the photographer! It was actually more challenging than I thought. He wanted to shoot outside so he gathered us all out there and then he said “OK, Act natural”. We are all kind of looking at him… our natural is not standing in the back yard in 91 degree weather dressed casually but nice. We all just kind of looked at each other for a minute. As we started talking about what we could do to act natural he started snapping away. He did have us look at the camera a few times, so I am hoping he was able to capture something suitable enough to be put in a magazine. Now that I think about it, that was the first professional family photo session we have ever had. Note to self: professional photo sessions for the Brooks family… um… not so much!
Once we were done and in the cool house trying to recuperate from the sweltering heat, I was kindly reminded by a friendly phone call that we were missing the kids science class. Doh! Even though we go every Tuesday, it completely slipped my mind today. So I jump up and rush the kids to class. After class, Kenric meets me to collect the kids and I head off to a boards meeting downtown and Kenric takes the kids to run errands with him. We all meet back at home around 6pm and share a half gallon of Baskin Robbins Ice Cream (no we didn’t eat it all at once).
We watched the second to last Oprah together and everyone went to bed (which is where I am typing this right now). Joshua has him annual state required testing in the morning, so he needs a good night’s sleep.
All in all it was a very productive day.
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