a blur I am afraid.
Day One Hundred and Nine
Sickness continues to creep around the house. It is not a bad sickness, but none of them are good, right?
Friday was Lukes last day at his school for 2014. There is a wonderful event that evening at his school called Advent Spiral. It involves a man with a flaming sword and the kids walk a spiral of evergreen with a apple with a candle in it. Hard to describe the beauty of it all and i have never been able to go as I have always been working.
Earlier in the day the was a winter RIE party at Lilys RIE class. It was so nice to sit and chat with the teacher, who we have learned so much from with Luke and now Lily. She reads this blog and gives it a big “thumbs up!” as well.
Day One Hundred and Eight
It is already Thursday of this week. The holidays are busy and I feel like I am just catching up to last weeks away trip.
Both kids are in great spirits, last Sunday we were concerned enough about Lilys health to bring her to a Urgent Care facility. She had no infection, just a virus, that has now seemed to pass and she is full throttle for sure. No napper today just to prove her point.
Luke continues to look years older than he did like two weeks ago. Now we are having trouble finding any decent clothes that fit him.
There is a impossible to fit stage in a child’s life that no chain store can fill. Post toddler sizes, (2T-5T) and XS youth is too big. It is a quandary I shall never understand.
Some photos to bring us up to date, more or less. Including daddy hemming some pants (went pretty good), lily putting her giraffe in the fridge, which was a clear sign to me she was feeling better, lily with a hat on (what else is new) and my two lovely birdies scratching at the front door.
Work Hiatus
I’m back!
Call it a hiatus, a litmus test or just a bad idea. I had three days of work out of town, kids all got sick, Lily figured her dad was just gone and what else?, well I will elaborate more soon, but still getting my bearings back as we have all been a bit under the weather.
What else, WENT TO DISNEYLAND! Yowzza.
Dad
Day One Hundred and Seven
I am going to work tomorrow, leaving town for a few days. We talked to Luke last night about it and he was amazing at how he processed it all.
Today Lily yet again did not nap, this time I had a small epiphany about it all.
I had a plan to pack and make a lemon tea cake and make more granola and do other stuff around the house and of course when the nap did not happen I was stricken by it all. I was there making the tea cake, making a huge mess, not enjoying any of it and Lily kept coming over needing something and I was short with her.
Gotta finish the tea cake, gotta finish the tea cake…
Meanwhile as I continued to rush and not enjoy what I was doing, I would see Lily doing cool stuff in the other room among other things getting all of Luke’s underwear out of his drawer and trying almost successfully, to put them on.
Gotta finish the tea cake.
Then made dash to school to pick up Luke, Lily falls asleep in the car and two things happen. First I remember a conversation in the last RIE class about the “Whereever you go, there you are” concept of yore. To which, I internally responded, oh please, I got that covered, don’t need to brush up on my inner hippie. Secondly I had a conversation with Mom and she said, enjoy the afternoon, drink it in because you will be away fro a few days.
That was the moment I realized it really was no fun making the tea cake and rushing and not hanging with Lil and so, I took her advice and spent as much time this afternoon as I could with my two lovely, kind, adorable, fun children. I did it imperfectly, but that is all right!
I will not post the next few days unless perhaps mom will send me some notes of life as it unfolds in the Continuing Adventures of Luke and Lil.