One Week Down

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley

approximately 936 until Peepers joins Minnow away at college.  Okay.  I’m not really counting down as that would be depressing. 

Well, we have been home for a week now and I am just as exhausted as I was the day I arrived home.  It is a different tired, but the depth of the tiredness is the same.  I know the tiredness will fade in a month or two or ten, but for now I am just trying to deal with it.  I am not doing it as gracefully as I could but that is okay.  We are all still alive and that is what really matters. 

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Minnow is adjusting better than I could have every imagined.  He has not shown any signs of jealousy at all.  He is patient and sweet.  Peepers is the first person he asks about everyday when he wakes up.  It is cute. I am sure that they are going to be buds once Peepers gets a little bit older.  He held her for the first time this week–I am not sure you can call it holding but she sat in his lap and they played.  It was so very cute.  Peepers is getting so much stronger.  She is sitting up and doing great–she of course tips over easily but that is due to the fact that her head is huge and her body has not quite caught up yet. 

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Today is a special day–Hubby’s birthday.  We laid low today–Hubby played golf with his friends from work and I took care of the kiddos. This was the first day that I had the kids by myself all day.  I have to admit it wasn’t too bad–exhausting but manageable.  Yesterday we went to my dads to celebrate Hubby’s birthday and the fourth.  We did a few toddler friendly fireworks–snakes and smoke bombs.  Minnow had a blast as did Peepers.  We sang happy birthday and had a great time. 

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6 thoughts on “One Week Down”

  2. I count the hours most days of the week. So many hours until naptime, then until bedtime. Then I try to figure out what I can do with those hours that will take the most time. Not exactly how I imagined parenting, but there are days it is what I really need to do, especially when Daddy-O has been gone WAY too much!

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  3. Happy Birthday to the Dalai Papa!

    On Albert’s first day back to work, things were humming along, I thought I was managing, I ran downstairs to throw in a load of laundry and found 6 inches of standing water, and me wihout a mop. It seemed so daunting to deal with the water, the children, the drive into town to buy a mop. I laugh now, but it was hard, and stayed really hard for the first month we were home. It gets better though–hang on!

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