March 13, 2008

• Yesterday Will woke up with a fever, saying his head and eyes hurt. He spent most of the day sleeping on the couch or in my bed. As much as I don't like having sick kids (and as much as I try desperately to keep the germs from spreading! ... whatever that means...) I love being the care-taking mommy. I love making honey-toast and oatmeal with raisins, rocking and singing and scratching his back, offering sippy cups of juice and carrying him piggyback up and down the stairs. I love putting my cool hands on his warm little forehead, feeling him wrap his arms around me and hearing him whisper, "I love you so, so much mommy. I love you the same as you love me."  And even though the housework falls behind, I don't really care. I'll catch it up next week. It's times like these that I'm most thankful to be able to stay home, and that I don't have to ship him off to day care as soon as he's "better." It's really... such a blessing.

  Our house is making noticeable progress! I was up at the site today, and they have all the first-floor framing done, and have started the 2nd floor. It's so fun to walk around the floor plan, for the first time putting visuals to those impossible-to-imagine-in-real-life blueprints. I spent two hours this morning at Home Depo, working on kitchen design and layout. Thanks to a very forward-thinking sister-in-law, I have lots of great ideas to work with from a Better Homes & Gardens sub she gave me for Christmas. I have a binder with pages I've ripped out (also her idea) to save all the ideas I really want to incorporate into our house, which is already coming in great handy. I'm having a lot of fun with it so far, though the kitchen is my first "project". I've yet to tackle any other room in the house (though I do have some ideas for paint), so I may very well be sick of this whole project by next month. I'll be looking for volunteers to help me plan.

  I have decided, as of today, that I absolutely love daylight savings time!!!!! So far this fall/winter, when Dan has gotten home from work, we have been scrambling to bundle up the kids and get outside to play/walk/whatever before it gets too dark. I've been unable to go for even a short run w/o getting home after dark, which means I haven't gotten out much at all, which has been a little frustraing. However, both yesterday and today, I took an hour-long walk with one or two of the kids (in the stroller or backpack) and have arrived back home to make dinner while it is still fully daylight out! Yayyy... I feel so MUCH better after having been outside in the fresh air getting exercise! I can't wait for spring to arrive so I can really take advantage of it!

  Tristan has slept through the night---10 to 11 hours--- for 4 nights straight! I finally "had it out" with him, and started giving him a sippy cup of water when he would wake up at night (instead of nursing him), and... I guess he figured that that wasn't really worth waking up for, so... he gave it up. I am very happy to be sleeping through the night for the first time in... I have no idea how long... And also... this is the first time that I have a walking, almost-weaned baby and I am not pregnant! Much as I look forward to having another baby someday, I must say that I am really loving being able to enjoy this stage of my kids' lives without dealing with exhaustion and nausea! (And I'm still wearing all my normal clothes! )

  For some reason, I feel like when I was in STL, I always had a ton to write about. I probably could have written an entry (or two) a day; in fact, I remember trying to "pace myself", and not post too frequently. And I don't know why... but I just don't have a lot to say anymore. Maybe I'm busier (but I would think that would just give me more to write about!) I just don't feel the "bug" to write on here like I used to. And I really don't know why.

  Anyway, have a great night, y'all!!

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