Thursday is My Sharing Day

Gabe has sharing day at school every Thursday.  Actually, every day is sharing day at preschool – some kids share on Monday, some on Tuesday – Gabe’s day is Thursday.  Nothing excites him during the week more than sharing day.*

*Trash day on Wednesday is a close second – no kidding.  He loves to wheel the trash cans down to the curb with me on Wednesday mornings.  We use “tomorrow’s trash day!” the same way other parents might use “tomorrow, we’re going to Disneyland!”  Gosh, I wish I was three and got that much joy from a green, stinky trash can. 

Thing is – none of the kids, including Gabe, actually care what’s being shared in his classroom.  A toy from home.  A book.  A rock.  A sock.  Lint.  They dont care what they’re sharing or what’s being shared with them.  They just like sitting around in a circle and having something to look at.  And being able to tell friends what it is.  And how it works.

That interview process, though, is apparently a bit routine.  I’ll ask Gabe each day how school was.  ”It was Skylar’s sharing day.”  ”Oh yeah, what did he share?”  ”A teddy bear.  He keeps it on his bed.”  Next day: “today was Andrew’s sharing day.  It was a book.  He keeps it on his shelf.”  What it is and where they keep it.  Pretty much the only information he walks away from school with each day.

So, as I’m lazily considering what to do with this site in the post-AFP haze, I think Thursday should be my sharing day too.  I’m going to share songs.  I’ll share a few each Thursday.  Five songs every Thursday.  Maybe five new songs.  Probably five old songs.  Maybe five songs that go well together – maybe not.

Like Gabe’s sharing, it doesn’t have to mean anything.  And doesn’t have to make sense.  It’s just sharing day.  And that makes Gabe and I happy.

Thursday is My Sharing Day, Episode 001.  (I keep them on my computer.)

Thursday is My Sharing Day, Episode 001 (download)

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