Another all-night nurse-a-thon. That’s how this little one copes with teething pain.
I put her hair into pigtail braids before bed last night and she took it upon herself to finish styling it this morning. This girl is awesome.
Lately her hazel eyes seem to be leaning more towards green then brown.
A bit of morning lesson time before Nature Program. This week they were each assigned an animal to look into. They were supposed to provide one fact that they thought others might not know. Mairi walked around all morning repeating over and over again that red back salamanders have a red back stage and a lead back stage.
Checking the taps and transferring buckets of sap into the big barrels as needed will happen several times a day from now until the end of the season.
The tiny girl and I finally sat down to our breakfast after we got them out the door. We blew kisses to each other in the quiet, in between bites of food (crustless pumpkin pie for me, pumpkin in chicken broth for her).
This was the first day in years and the last in the foreseeable future, that I had several hours basically to my self. I’ve been thinking and planning and dreaming for about a month now. I was going to order seeds! Write a letter to my aunt! Work on Seraphina’s birthday gifts! Transplant seedlings! Get my lesson plans for the rest of the year in order! Actually answer some emails instead of just feeling guilty about them! Maybe take a nap? Watch a movie? Long hot bath??
What I actually did:
fed the baby breakfast. put her down for a nap. gathered all of the laundry from around the house. washed two loads. answered one email. confirmed a dentists appointment. prepared lunch. fed the baby lunch. fixed a snack to meet the kids with when they got back, by which point it was time to get us bundled up for a walk and to pick up the kids.
This does not seem like nearly 4 hours worth of activities, and yet…
Four left and five return. (I watch another child for a few hours on Tuesdays.)
All I see out there is snow, but they seem to have found some mud!
dress rehearsal.
He was home for just long enough to dump the sap, change his clothes and have me thrust some food into his hands. Steve was home for long enough to help dump the sap and kiss me goodbye again.
A bit more school work, house work, childcare, dinner.
The board meeting was moved to our house out of consideration for my lack of childcare. I put Mairi to bed before anyone arrived and she slept not a wink. There was one other tiny person in attendance. The two little toddling folk argued over Seraphina’s carriage, shared chunks of fruit doled out by Galen and stood side by side pushing my yoga ball around the house. If she cried, Seraphina cried.
I have no idea what happened to the lids to all of my teapots and I was too busy to go searching for them.
Her first three little steps three days ago and she’s already crossing full rooms!