Life’s Seasons

Like the season’s, my life seems to be constatly changing.

When Babes Fall Ill November 17, 2007

Filed under: Raising Kiddos — lifeseasons @ 1:29 pm
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The last few days have been full. Full of life. On Tuesday I decided to try to push our holiday travel plans up a few days. This meant laundry, finding a cat sitter, figure out work stuff, packing, shopping, etc. So on Thursday morning hubby and I pulled out of the driveway with only three and half hours sleep!

We drove to Seattle (about an hour and a half) to see “The BFG” by Roald Dahl put on by the Seattle Children’s Theater. Which was fabulous, as they usually are! My two school age daughters enjoyed it immensely and the baby slept. I had an inkling she wasn’t feeling well. No fever, but a low throaty, hoarse voice. After the show we had lunch at the Seattle Center and went on to spend the afternoon at the Pacific Science Center. It was perfect on a miserable, rainy, Thursday afternoon. We almost had the whole place to ourselves! (We home school by the way.) But by 4 o’clock hubby and I had headaches, were totally exhausted and we had a cranky baby.

We decided to stay the night in Seattle and make the 3 hour drive on to Vancouver, WA the next morning. I am so glad we did. Because now I have a truly sick baby. So much for our relaxing vacation, but more than that…I hate there is nothing I can do for her. We are running the humidifier, giving her tylenol, and trying to make sure she stays hydrated, but watching her cry this totally miserable cry makes me want to cry too! I know it will be gone soon, but right now it is consuming!

 

A New Season of Blogging November 12, 2007

Filed under: Life Lessons — lifeseasons @ 11:03 am
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It is Monday morning in early November and the wind is roaring at speeds of 65 mph outside our Pacific Northwest home. My two oldest girls are gone at play dates and my 4 month old is fast asleep. My husband is at work. I am here enjoying the first couple of hours I have had to myself in I don’t know how long. So I have born a blog. A blog I have been thinking about starting for a year now. I have been trying to decide what exactly I would blog about and have decided not to pigeon hole myself.

I have started this blog without telling anyone I know. I am hoping this will achieve a certain amount of honesty on my part. Because I need a safe place to proclaim “I don’t like my 6 year old today” when she has pushed me to the brink of my motherly patience. Or maybe it’ll be “I absolutely despise my in-laws!” when my mother-in-law comes to my house for only the third time in 10 years only to denounce my parentlng and tell me there is something clinically wrong with my 9 year old! Or it might be “I have the greatest husband ever!” even though I don’t want him to think too highly of himself, that I would proclaim it to the world in a blog. This way no one will no…except me and you!

I hope you will leave me notes along the way about the seasons in your life too. This way we can celebrate or commiserate together. Who knows what this new season of blogging will bring. Here’s hoping…