HR approved my hours-per-week increase, so I basically gave myself a raise. :) I wasn't able to bring the girls to daycare another day per week since Audrey has a MWF buddy in her room, and they don't have a place for her. It's no biggie - I'll get my hours in by working 1-2 hrs a couple of nights each week after the girls are in bed. My workload has been so incredible that I start to get a little anxious just making a list of everything. But it'll get worked out soon enough, I keep telling myself, over and over and over... and in 12 weeks I'll be out of vacation and Jonna will be back, so I'll bump it back down to 20/week. Just in time for summer!
We're finally healthy here! I guess it was less than 2 weeks, but it sure is nice to be functioning again. I took the girls to Target one morning last week, and it didn't seem like it was that hard of a task, so I was laughing at how I wasn't able to muster the energy to do even that much a week before. We went to a women's basketball game while he wasn't feeling well, and he was really having a tough time making it through the day. I pointed out to him that he was as tired as I was back when Audrey was a newborn, and he had told me to just suck it up and be happy and go party with friends, and then I would feel better no matter how tired I was. I asked him if he felt better because I told him to suck it up and go do something social, and he agreed that it wasn't so simple. It was nice that he could understand how I felt, even if it was a year later. Before the game, I was getting the girls ready for a nap/rest, and all of a sudden I couldn't find Travis when I needed help with a blowout diaper. He had wandered off to sleep on their porch. I would never, never wander away from my kids when I was sick without first making sure that the person who would be with them was ready - no matter how sick I get. But I guess that's what alpha-moms get; I've trained him to be a beta-dad!! It's not really his fault, and he'd be a willing subject for me to fix that.
I sure am glad that my family has such nice easy names for Emily to use when learning to read. She loves it when we write her name and others on the magna-doodle and she sounds them out. I mean really, these are great names: Jenny, Julie, Sarah, Megan, Dave, Dan, Dad, Nancy, Sally, and of course Mom. The tougher ones are Audrey (what're the u and e for?) and Kristin (that's a lot of consonants). She especially likes it when I write her friend Lily's name underneath hers and she can compare how they look alike and how they sound alike. Fun stuff!
I'm really not sure what to do with myself right now. Both girls have been asleep for the past hour and a half. I biked in the basement, I folded laundry, I facebooked, I blogged... now what? Maybe I'll just move freely about the housefor a while -- just because I can!!!
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