Day 1: In which we do pretty damn well March 2, 2008
Posted by spacemom in : Parenting 101 , trackback(this post is backdated to keep the chronology correct)
Last night, Jay flew to Sunny Santiago Chile. He has a meeting on Star formation down there. When the meeting came up, he mentioned it to me in passing. I told him to GO. He thought about it and it turns out that he was accepted to give a talk. This is good. He keeps deprecating himself on his career, but I see that he is becoming more and more called upon in his field. He’s been great for the past 6 years, limiting the meetings he’s gone to, but now it is okay for him to get out more. The girls are older and while 3 is still young, I know that Luna will come around.
This is a monumental trip, however. This is the longest trip (7 days) that he will have been gone and I am the single parent. We’ve always had a grandparent or pair come and stay for at least part of his long trips. This is the first long one without help.
Day 1 went well. The bedtime on day 0 went great, but I still didn’t sleep well. I never sleep well at first. And then I don’t sleep well when he returns. Go figure. We have friends visit in the morning, we played in the snow and made a snow fort with a styrofoam cooler. (yes, we have THAT much snow). The cooler made our blocks. The fort is currently 3 levels high. (we did 2 levels on Sunday). Then we ran out to get our pottery that Soleil and I painted last week. Soleil decided to paint a piggy bank for Luna because Luna didn’t have one. It came out great!
We had an early dinner and then printed out coloring sheets from the Internet and we took them to Friendly’s for ice cream. The wait at our Friendly’s is terrible, so I figured the coloring sheets would help. It did!
So day one ends, and we survive!
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