October madness

This past Monday morning was Eden's first day at daycare. I know, I know, what does a stay-at-home Mom need to send her kid to daycare for? And more importantly, why didn't she take her camera for that 'first day of...." shot? Well, here's why:

The week after Lars' baptism, everybody went home. Eden came into the living room one morning looking around, yelling, "Grandmaaaa?!" "Oh," I said, "grandma went back to Michigan". "Papa?" "No, Papa went back to Michigan, too". "AJ?" "No, honey, AJ went back to Wilcox." "Mitchell?" "No, sweetie, Mitchell had to move back to Grand Island." And then she sadly went to the bookshelf and began playing by herself. It broke my heart. I decided to find her some regularly scheduled friends. So, that's how she began her Monday life of daycare. Tomorrow will be week two of the routine and hopefully, she will come home just as tired and sleep just as well! The reason she didn't have her picture is because I was so excited for this day to come, that I set the alarm, woke her up, got her dressed and hustled out to the car all before anybody else was out of bed. A photo didn't seem nearly as important as showering in peace did!

What do I do all day? you may ask yourself. Well, let me tell you: I leave Lars in his swing all by himself and don't worry about him getting whiplash by his sister's rocking him, I'm able to leave him in the bouncy seat on the kitchen table upstairs and not worry about him getting pulled off the table. I'm able to do the laundry w/o Eden playing in the dogs water bucket or running around with sissors from my scrapbook table. I'm able to plan supper, vacuum, pick up toys, fold blankets, play non-child music (though I usually hum those little dittys all day long), iron clothes and work outside, all by myself! I never realized how easy one child really is! Not to mention, I don't spend an hour at lunch time cleaning yogurt and cottage cheese off the counter/chair/child/floor....it's great. And at the end of the day, I'm glad to see her.

Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty routine for us here. Al had a voter's meeting on Tuesday at the same time that I had a class at the hospital. He took Eden and I took Lars and that worked out well. Voice choir has started again on Wednesdays during Al's confirmation class, and I enjoy that. He comes after his class to sing, as well.

Thursday, Lars still was puking a lot, so I took him to the doctor and the doctor put him in the hospital. He'd lost about 8oz in 3 days, so they put an IV in him. He ended up staying until Saturday late afternoon, and we got home yesterday evening after dark. He's on 3 medications, and they seem to be working, so far... Eden had been passed around to different parishoner's for three days and we were all happy to get back together last night as a family. Eden stripped naked and put on a one woman, 3 ring circus for us for nearly an hour. She was so hyper, it was hilarious! Too bad she was still wound up and awake at 0230...I had to peel her off the bedroom floor for church this morning. This afternoon, we all took 4 hour naps. That was an awesome bonus!
















Hopefully this week will be less tiring, yet equally eventful....