So the boys and I were watching some of the inauguration this week. R had some questions about the presidency and all that which I did my best to answer. Then he asked me when I had been president. I told him I’ve never been president. So he asked when Daddy had been president. I told him Daddy had never been president either. He thought on that for a moment, and then declared:
“Well, that’s kind of pathetic, isn’t it?”
Is pretty much how I’ve been feeling lately.
I am very excited about the new baby, with occasional bouts of “What were we THINKING?”
But the reality of early pregnancy for me is a lot of nausea, tiredness, and irritability. (yeah yeah, I know…me and every other knocked-up woman on the planet. And if that’s not your reality…I don’t want to hear about it! Not right now, anyway!) Coupled with some of the medical issues K has been having, I haven’t really even been in much of a mood to write about my “one good thing” each day (although I am still looking for a good thing each day, by the time N gets home and we have dinner, & get the boys ready for bed, I’m not usually up for much besides crawling into bed myself.)
If I’m lucky, I have about two more weeks of this before I make it to the second trimester and I start to feel a little better. Although, going by my first two pregnancies, this usually extends a bit further than that for me. But, we can always hope!
About K, it’s nothing serious, simply unpleasant, and I’ll spare everyone the TMI details. You’re welcome! 
Anyway I just wanted to give a quick update of things around here. Happy Wednesday!
N coming home from work and making pancakes for dinner!
Hearing R singing the songs he is learning after choir practice.
Getting the chance to visit with a few friends for an hour.
N & the boys have been on vacation since Christmas Eve (well, K was off a little longer, but the other two were officially off as of Dec. 24th) And now, tomorrow, it’s back to reality for our little clan. N is back to work, and jumping right into his busiest time of year, and R & K are back to school. I’m back to having 2 hours a day with which to get stuff done, which seems like it should be a lot of time but isn’t. (mostly because I piss it all away on the computer!) The past several days have been wonderful…besides the holidays we had lots of family time, a couple of days where the pajamas never came off, lots of sleep-in days. And now, boom, it’s over.
I don’t regret the lazy days. Not even the times when all we did was sit and watch TV, because we were all together, and together is good. And we saw some friends, and celebrated the New Year (in a spectacularly lame way, but we celebrated it), and played some games, and it was all very good. Well, except for the New Year’s Eve part anyway! We went to a party at L & P’s place on NYE, but left early and came home — we forgot allergy medicine and their cats were killing me and R. By the time we got home the boys were asleep, so we put them to bed, and then fell asleep ourselves. We woke up at 11:59, said “Happy New Year” and went back to sleep. Didn’t even turn on the TV to watch the ball drop! Happy 2009!
R hasn’t seemed too upset about starting back to school, so hopefully the break has done him some good, too.
R waking up this morning, coming downstairs, and putting breakfast on the table for the family (cereal, bowls, spoons & milk).
I was complimented on the dinner I made tonight for Mom & J.
Happy New Year!!
I sit here, a little stunned by the passage of time. Then again, aren’t I always? It just goes so fast. 2009, really? Sometimes it feels like it’s all a dream…one of those ones where in an instant, years have gone by. N and I will celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary this year. Our children will turn 7 and 5 years old, and our youngest will start kindergarten. So many other things, expected and unexpected, will occur this year. I can’t wait!
I’m not making resolutions this year. They never work out all that well for me anyway, and too much is up in the air at the moment for me to have any clear idea of where this year will end up. However, I do have something I want to try. I’ve been struggling for years to find peace and contentment with myself. One thing I’ve read is that it can help to write down the good things…the little things that make a day a little brighter. So this year, I want to hold on to and write down one good thing each day. I don’t doubt that there will be many duplicates. There will be days where the only good thing is that I’m still breathing at the end of it. There will probably be days where I don’t consider that to be a good thing. There will be the other kinds of days, too. The kinds where choosing one good thing from the myriad that happened that day will feel impossible. I’d love to see myself post one day that the good thing from that day was The Day…to have one of those days where nothing goes wrong at all. Where everyone is relaxed and happy, where money woes don’t rear their ugly head, where there is no arguing, no tattling, no forgetting to thaw the meat for dinner, no car issues. Just an ordinary, but good, day.
So welcome to 2009, and I hope you’ll stick with me for another year or so.
