Holding down the fort

My mom is currently in town while Amy is away with her class on an overnight environmental field trip. They left early Monday morning. Amy called a few times. She is doing fine. E and my mom are picking her up around 4. Her cell only works outside and it was raining on Monday. I spoke to her only a handful of times. It was hard for her to leave, but she's called my mom and me a few times for updates. Our house is fine, my mom has made huge progress on laundry. We got behind on laundry since before Labor day and never really caught up. I think all hampers are empty now. It's been great to have her up here. My mom has been a blessing while Amy is away.

I've been able to do many things that I normally can't do when it is just Amy and me. I replanted the Iris bulbs on Sunday and had two long days at work. Normally I don't get to work before 9:30am because I am responsible to get E ready and off to day care in the morning. I also slept in a little today didn't have to worry about E at night if he didn't want to go back to sleep as my mom took care of him.

Last night's sleep was important because starting yesterday morning I began fighting off the onset of a cold. I got 8 hours of sleep last night, am taking Sudafed and drinking juice with Vitamin C. I'm doing great. I probably got the cold because I replanted the Iris bulbs in the freezing drizzle Sunday. On Monday I went straight to UST after dropping Amy off at 6:30am and I had class after work until 9pm. That was a 14 hour day. I then started Tuesday with only 5 hours of sleep. I needed to get up early on Tuesday to head over to Mpls for a Sun Java conference all day yesterday and got home at 5pm. E went to bed at 9pm last night so I spent a good 4 hours with him.

This morning I slept in until 6:40 and then got my tire fixed before arriving at work at 9:30. I found a screw in the tire the other day while dropping E off at daycare and changed the tire in the parking lot.

We are currently trying to schedule E's 9 month pictures. He has a doctor's appointment on Thursday. I told him not to worry last night because he won't be receiving any shots. He smiled. I then clarified and said "well, you're not scheduled for any" meaning we didn't know if they would give him a flu shot. His smile quickly went away and he gave me a blank stare. Do you really think he understood?