I went to bed last night promising myself that I would be calm, quiet and patient today. And I am happy to say that I think I was. I’ve had my moments and work was very stressful but I kept my cool. I talked to David a lot to explain the situation so all I had to do was remind and I didn’t yell one single time. Nathaniel had me stressed a bit because just when I was having manual production problems and had to do a lot of typing, he’d come over to the computer and type and I had to move his hand and he’d melt down. But he did eventually calm down and play.
I worked all through until the moment I had to leave to get David. Then I worked a bunch more while David did his gratitude journal, etc. And then I asked if could snap a photo and I got this gem.
Then since he was so great when I worked, we played some cards together. He won.
And then it was bed time. There was a little bit of a meltdown but it all happened with relatively low fanfare and I just kept reminding myself that I needed to breathe and relax. Then I got a bunch of crafty stuff done and now I have more todo list items to get through. But I feel good about the work, the exercise, the fun time, the craft time, and even a long wonderful conversation with my mother in law.
Having said that I am so so so tired. Please hope that my little one sleeps past 5am ok? Pretty please?
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I finished some of the loose ends on projects I wanted to completely finish.
2. I am grateful that I have tomorrow off. 3-day weekend, here I come.
3. I am grateful that I got a wonderfully kind recognition at work today. It was completely unexpected and I felt so surprised and grateful.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. making snowflakes in art class {* his pick for the journal}
2. playing cards with mommy
3. playing with my math toy
Hi Karen,
You sound much better! I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
I plan to as well. My grand daughter is having dinner with us tonight, then we are getting tights and shoes to go with her Christmas dress. I ordered it on line, and it’s even prettier than she said it was. (She had seen it in the store when she was with her Mommy, and when she was telling me about it, she went from telling me that she liked it to telling me she really HAD TO have that one for Christmas!) Then she is coming to spend some time with us tomorrow evening, so I’m really looking forward to that too. Other than stressing about Christmas cards, I am really ready for Christmas. And my employer gives us two days for Christmas, and two for New Years, so I have two 4 day weekends coming up.
Life is good, isn’t it? Anyways, have a really nice long weekend!