Life is gentle
These past few weeks have been really sweet and relaxing. I guess it's the calm before the storm. I am doing my emergency medicine rotation, but it is only 16 8-hour shifts over 4 weeks. That's 32 hours a week at most, practically nothing.
At 7 this morning, Ruby was calling from her crib. The poor girl was freezing cold, her whole little body was chilled. Usually we dress her up warm for the night, but these past few weeks the temperature has been all over the place and we've had to make lots of adjustments, and we got it wrong last night. So I brought her to the big bed, and I curled up around her so that her hands and feet would get warm against my belly. It must have taken her 20 minutes to warm up. A little while later, Theo came into the room self-wrapped in his blue fleece blanket. Dad helped him get on the bed, and then Ruby and Theo were laughing and smiling at each other. So then I started thinking about everything else that made life good, and here is some of my list:
1.) I will start getting paid in June, and then we'll finally be able to breathe a little.
2.) Yesterday Ruby ate two jars of baby food in the evening. Theo ate an entire peanut butter and jelly sandwich on his own, as well as a good sized piece of my tuna melt. Also, when Dad or I eat a spinach salad, he steals spinach leaves off of the plate. The kids are growing and eat anything I put in front of them, and I am very happy to have a steadily increasing food bill.
3.) The weather is getting warmer and soon the kids will have tans.
4.) Theo can put together 24 piece puzzles without any assistance. He can put together 60 piece puzzles with just a little bit of help.
5.) Ruby has a noise that means, "Can we play?"
6.) I recently bought a new pair of jeans at Old Navy for $7.
7.) Ted and I play a pretty darn good game of Scrabble.
8.) I recently hemmed those ridiculously long curtains that we got from IKEA several months ago, and now they look wonderful. I used the iron-on hemming tape that came with the curtains, but I had to put stitches on the edges because they were double thick and the heat of the iron couldn't penetrate through to the hemming tape. I used the same knots that I learned during my surgery elective and while aesthetically inappropriate, they're sturdy knots, so it was a good job.
9.) Theo knows how to sing Rainbow Connection. He also can sing "Make Me a Servant" while I accompany him on guitar. Read that last sentence again, imagine my happiness.
10.) Ted and I will be married five years in June and we are having a great time.
I guess my point is, on mornings like these, I think that I've already made it, and everything else is icing on the cake.
And now, a random picture:
At 7 this morning, Ruby was calling from her crib. The poor girl was freezing cold, her whole little body was chilled. Usually we dress her up warm for the night, but these past few weeks the temperature has been all over the place and we've had to make lots of adjustments, and we got it wrong last night. So I brought her to the big bed, and I curled up around her so that her hands and feet would get warm against my belly. It must have taken her 20 minutes to warm up. A little while later, Theo came into the room self-wrapped in his blue fleece blanket. Dad helped him get on the bed, and then Ruby and Theo were laughing and smiling at each other. So then I started thinking about everything else that made life good, and here is some of my list:
1.) I will start getting paid in June, and then we'll finally be able to breathe a little.
2.) Yesterday Ruby ate two jars of baby food in the evening. Theo ate an entire peanut butter and jelly sandwich on his own, as well as a good sized piece of my tuna melt. Also, when Dad or I eat a spinach salad, he steals spinach leaves off of the plate. The kids are growing and eat anything I put in front of them, and I am very happy to have a steadily increasing food bill.
3.) The weather is getting warmer and soon the kids will have tans.
4.) Theo can put together 24 piece puzzles without any assistance. He can put together 60 piece puzzles with just a little bit of help.
5.) Ruby has a noise that means, "Can we play?"
6.) I recently bought a new pair of jeans at Old Navy for $7.
7.) Ted and I play a pretty darn good game of Scrabble.
8.) I recently hemmed those ridiculously long curtains that we got from IKEA several months ago, and now they look wonderful. I used the iron-on hemming tape that came with the curtains, but I had to put stitches on the edges because they were double thick and the heat of the iron couldn't penetrate through to the hemming tape. I used the same knots that I learned during my surgery elective and while aesthetically inappropriate, they're sturdy knots, so it was a good job.
9.) Theo knows how to sing Rainbow Connection. He also can sing "Make Me a Servant" while I accompany him on guitar. Read that last sentence again, imagine my happiness.
10.) Ted and I will be married five years in June and we are having a great time.
I guess my point is, on mornings like these, I think that I've already made it, and everything else is icing on the cake.
And now, a random picture:
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