Still here

I'm still here. I realize it's been almost a month since I last posted.... life with 2 kids, even when one is in school 4 days a week and the other is sleeping for most of the day, is tough. Harder than I imagined it would be. P was sick a couple of weeks ago with an early-summer cold, which she then gave to G, me and then O.... and O had a fever for a few nights. When your kid is sick, that's alarming. When it's a tiny 3-week old baby with a fever, it can be a little panic-inducing. G and I took him to the doctors, where they decided it was just virus, but we had to have blood drawn, just to make sure it wasn't a bacterial infection. There's nothing like watching a phelbotomist draw blood with the teeniest needle possible from your baby, then decide they need more, and trying it again three different times, in three different spots. P was home for 5-1/2 days of togetherness, and I just have to say that I am not at all cut out to be a stay-at-home mom.... I am just not that entertaining. When Monday came earlier in the week, we were all very excited for her to go back to school.

So we've kept busy, to say the least. (And, no, it wasn't bacterial, so we just had to wait the fever out. It is now gone). I've been working from home, and I learned that work won't credit me the 20+ hours per week that I've been working the last few weeks, so next week I'm taking a full week of vacation. We're headed to my parents on Thursday for the holiday weekend.

We've been doing a lot of "stuff" - going out to dinner, going to see friends, chamber mixers, strawberry picking, summer concert attending. G's birthday was Tuesday (he's toeing the line of 40! Yikes!) and he and my dad played in a golf tournament, then came home to dinner with some friends and my mom and I. I made an awesome chocolate mousse pie - per his request - that was really to die for. Last night, along with my parents, we met up with some friends and went to the VSO's summer concert kick-off. It had to be held inside due to some sopping wet fields, but it was really a lot of fun and there were fireworks thisclose after, in the fields outside. A wonderful way to kick off the official start of summer. Next week, we will enjoy 4 days on the lake, along with family, fireworks, my favorite parade in the entire state of Vermont, long walks in the cooler evening temperatures, and I'm sure an ice cream or six. I'll be forgetting about work for 4 whole days, and will start to prep for it on Sunday night.

Do tell: what are your plans for the Fourth?