Still Here

I'm still here just overwhelmed with all the changes.  We moved into the new house last Saturday so it has officially been one week and three days. Lots of changes. I have both kids home now and it is a full-time mothering experience where I fall down at the end of the day.  The good news is that I am losing weight (probably from all this moving and chasing the kids). I'm down another 1.8 lbs at the scale last week after being stuck for about a month.  I love having a home that we can call our own but it is bleeding our savings dry.  As a result, I have to go back to work early, by about 6 weeks. I actually think I left Mister about the same time since I was on bed-rest before he came, used up some of the leave that way.  I am having mixed feelings about going back.  The nanny has started with us one day a week.  Yesterday I left them for the entire day (had a doctor's appointment about the thyroid and a best friend treated me to a pedicure).  I came home and found Mister napping and Dolly happily crawling around, the happiest I had seen her in a long time. I told the nanny that she has the 'magic touch'.  I know they will be good with her.  She was my best friend's nanny for 10 years so she comes from a reliable source.  I don't have much time to write these days but still browsing other blogs.  A friend of mine recently lost her baby when she was 7 months pregnant.  I am still grappling from this news.  I have been e-mailing her and sent a card.  Work sent a basket of things but I'm thinking of ordering her some casseroles or something from a nearby supper place. I feel at a loss for what to do but want to let her know that I'm here for her. 

Closing Day

Well, today is closing day.  We are official home-owners.  Hubby picked up the key from the lawyer today.  We are going to check it out this afternoon, after hubby gets off of work. Tomorrow we start on the wallpaper removal process and Saturday is actual moving day.

In the meantime, Sick Kids called today and I take Dolly for a pre-MRI work-up on Friday afternoon ... which also happens to be Mister's last day at daycare and there is a party in the afternoon.  I picked up Batman napkins and party blowers.  Hopefully I can make it in time.

My sister sent me a long e-mail complaining about the godparent decision that we made. In my opinion, it just reaffirms that I made the right choice.  I am now choosing not to respond.  I don't think that because you are blood relatives that you are defined as close or similar.  Sure, some friends do come and go but we choose our friends, not our family.