Evan went back to work today. After two weeks of being home, adjusting to the medicine for his blood therapy and slowly healing, he went back to the real world today. I've called him at least 3 times and emailed him more to check on him. He says he's doing fine.
Julia misses him like crazy. She asked for him 3 times in thirty minutes after waking up. She wanted to go visit him at his office. I told her that some day this week, we'll stop by to say hi to Daddy.
I'm feeling overwhelmed lately. I don't think it's necessarily holiday related--I'm almost done with the gift buying and wrapping and I've still got some baking to do, but I typically find that more of a therapy session for me. I don't know what's overwhelming me...
Part of it is doctor visits and how we seem to have been visiting some sort of medical personal quite a bit this past month. I hate asking people to watch Julia while I go to an appointment and I feel like I've had to do it a lot lately. I really wish doctors' offices had a small nursery that you could drop the kid off at--like the gym! Just sign them in, let them play, pick them up after the appointment's over. It'd make my life a lot easier.
I am also out of my routine. I haven't been to the Y in weeks and I need to go back...
So, to help with the overwhelmingness, I've started to de-clutter out home. I'm thinking of the move that we'll be making in the summer and trying to start organizing for it. I realize that it's 6 months away, but people, that is not a very long time. I need to go through things in our closets and under beds and in the basement to see what we're holding on to that we just don't need.
Maybe that's part of the issue. I've been thinking more about leaving and I'm sad. I love our life here and I have started saying things like, "We need to do this before we leave" and "Ooh, I need to finish reading the books I've borrowed to give back to my friends before we move". Yes, I'm still excited about exploring a new city and making a home there, but that doesn't out weigh the sadness of leaving Colorado.
I'm also running out almost every night and trying to capture this brilliant view with my little point-and-shoot camera. 
Elisabeth likes to yell at me as I'm running out the door, "Better hurry up, Mom! The sky will never be like that again!" 
Totally throwing my own words back at me. She's so smart.
I hear you...
ReplyDelete(though our move is in less than two months, and probably a half an hour away...)
The decluttering thing is crazy. It's therapeutic, but kind of depressing in its own right. I don't know how I feel about it...
Those sky pictures are breathtaking!