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It has been a hectic week. Mina has been battling some kind of stomach bug/cold and Brian got hit with it too. So far, I've been good. The Pedi tells me it is going around, and that treating symptoms and letting it pass is what we can do. I don't work on Mondays. I was out Tuesday (Brian was too sick to care for Mina). She went in yesterday and was great for most of the day, but we got a call to pick her up around 3:00. Brian is home with her today. I'll stay out tomorrow if need be. We'll see. I'm dreading having to get home from work in Woburn with the snow, so missing work more would suck, but staying in with her would make the commute easier for me (and would get Brian back to work, 5 minutes from our house).
I missed dance class Tuesday since I needed rest, and wanted to give Brian some respite. The poor guy will have a whole day and night with Mina today. I'm not sure if he's done the whole shebang alone before. I'll be home in the middle, maybe stopping to get dinner on the way.
The laundry and dishes are the things that we really struggle to keep up on with a kid, even moerso when there are germs in the house. Wash your hands and your dirty stuff folks. Wash, wash wash those germs away! I feel like we are never done doing these things, and it is not a Jodi being an anal-retentive neat freak kind of thing, it is a must be done to survive kind of thing. :)
I'm both excited and torn about this impending snow. I love New England seasons. I don't mind the snow. I don't like driving in it around others that don't know how to drive in it. Shoveling loses its novelty after a while. Thankfully we have a snowblower. We still don't have a generator, but perhaps, one of these days, we will get one. Probably a good use with the tax return money. I'm going out to get some supplies during my lunch hour. We have some fireplace cans to get us through if we need the heat. I'll get a propane can for our small camp stove too. A huge thing of water. Some milk for Mina. Some nonperishables. We have plenty of pet food and batteries and flashlights and candles.
We did not go to the Manray reunion, but a good friend came to watch Mina and we went for dinner (checked out http://www.charcoalguidos.com/ on Moody and then had a leisurely time browsing books and magazines and hanging in the cafe at Barnes and Noble in Burlington, like in the pre-baby days). Guidos was great! Light dinner, good food. Crazy busy! Glad we got there early. Kid friendly (they had a high chair in there) but crowded. We'd do lunch there with Mina but not dinner - just too narrow to get her and her massive bag through the crowd. Also LOUD. We didn't want to be out late, and wanted to give our babysitter time to get home at a reasonable hour, hence our plan. We try and do things we couldn't easily do with her on these nights. The folks I'd want to see for the most part weren't going to the Manray reunion (though, we did miss some of you). We were going to bed around the time we would have been leaving for the reunion. My, how things have changed. You know that you are doing the right thing though, when you are more than OK with this. :)
I missed dance class Tuesday since I needed rest, and wanted to give Brian some respite. The poor guy will have a whole day and night with Mina today. I'm not sure if he's done the whole shebang alone before. I'll be home in the middle, maybe stopping to get dinner on the way.
The laundry and dishes are the things that we really struggle to keep up on with a kid, even moerso when there are germs in the house. Wash your hands and your dirty stuff folks. Wash, wash wash those germs away! I feel like we are never done doing these things, and it is not a Jodi being an anal-retentive neat freak kind of thing, it is a must be done to survive kind of thing. :)
I'm both excited and torn about this impending snow. I love New England seasons. I don't mind the snow. I don't like driving in it around others that don't know how to drive in it. Shoveling loses its novelty after a while. Thankfully we have a snowblower. We still don't have a generator, but perhaps, one of these days, we will get one. Probably a good use with the tax return money. I'm going out to get some supplies during my lunch hour. We have some fireplace cans to get us through if we need the heat. I'll get a propane can for our small camp stove too. A huge thing of water. Some milk for Mina. Some nonperishables. We have plenty of pet food and batteries and flashlights and candles.
We did not go to the Manray reunion, but a good friend came to watch Mina and we went for dinner (checked out http://www.charcoalguidos.com/ on Moody and then had a leisurely time browsing books and magazines and hanging in the cafe at Barnes and Noble in Burlington, like in the pre-baby days). Guidos was great! Light dinner, good food. Crazy busy! Glad we got there early. Kid friendly (they had a high chair in there) but crowded. We'd do lunch there with Mina but not dinner - just too narrow to get her and her massive bag through the crowd. Also LOUD. We didn't want to be out late, and wanted to give our babysitter time to get home at a reasonable hour, hence our plan. We try and do things we couldn't easily do with her on these nights. The folks I'd want to see for the most part weren't going to the Manray reunion (though, we did miss some of you). We were going to bed around the time we would have been leaving for the reunion. My, how things have changed. You know that you are doing the right thing though, when you are more than OK with this. :)
