One Day at a time

I see Syd took some time over the weekend to check in, and leave some comments. Thank you Syd! I'm not going to respond to each thing you said, but I will probably comment back on a couple of them anyway.

This past weekend was a good exercise in taking things "One Day at a time" and letting go of expectations. We started Friday night with a trip to the forest. My husband was going camping, and since we are a one-car family, it was a family event to bring him to the campsite. Rather than dropping him off quickly, and running back to civilization, daughter and I went for a short hike braving the mosquitoes. A beaver was spotted, and much mountain laurel, and a deer was seen on our way home. All good things.

In the morning my daughter made it clear that she did not want to see "the grandma with the dead cat on her kitchen table", and she was pretty clear about it. I had promised her some mother-daughter time, and she did not want that time transformed into mother-daughter-grandma time. I respected her wishes, much to my mother's ire. We ran into an old friend of my mom's in our travels, and I mentioned the change in plans. His response, after having not seen my mom in 30 years maybe, was "well you know her temper, I wouldn't tick her off if I was you. She'll probably get revenge...."   Gee, thanks for that. Nice to know what old friends think of her. I held my ground with my daughter though, and we journeyed to the south instead of to the north. I took my daughter strawberry picking for her first time. I wasn't fussy about finding "the best" strawberries, or "organic", or anything else. I simply cruised around until I saw a sign on the side of the road, and followed it in to the farm. Picking was hard work for her, but it was fun. We finished before the rain started, and hopefully didn't get too many more than we can use.

The next thing to come in my path was my daughter waking from a nap with a fever. Sick and angry she refused to take the Motrin I offered her. Asleep and then awake again, I finally made the calls to take her to the doctor and to let my husband know he would not be spending another night camping in the rain.

So our weekend went. Taking things one moment at a time, not sure what would happen next, but not getting attached to too many things either. We chose out battles carefully as parents need to do.We let go of doing some of the things we each wanted to do, as a couple needs to compromise. It wasn't the best weekend ever, but we survived it as a family, doing our best to respect one another.

Been sick this week

I've been sick this week. The kid had a little cold last weekend, and it got worse instead of better as the days went on. By Sunday night we were both coughing. On Monday morning, a holiday, I dropped my husband off at work and took my daughter and I into the walk-in clinic. I signed us both up to be seen because I thought that would be easiest. She was actually asking to see the doctor, but she was hoping to see her regular doctor not just the one on-call. Anyway, I don't have strep, and we just have colds. I was getting worse as the week went on, but I think I've finally hit a turning point and am getting better. At least I hope so. We both stayed home on Tuesday, and my husband went off to work. He came home a little early and I got to leave the house to vote and check email. On Wednesday I forced my daughter to go back to school (after checking with the teachers), and I went back to work. I've had hardly any voice for a few days, but it's coming back. She is still coughing, but she's got plenty of energy so I'm pretty sure she is doing better than I am. Hopefully my husband won't get it as bad as he hasn't been around as much. He even went into work overnight Sunday night and dodged us for most of that time too. So I'm hopeful that he stayed busy enough to be safe from it.

Anyway, another weekend coming, and I'm still not 100%, but we've got things to do so I'm trying to pull it together, and trying to pull it together at work too. One Day At a Time.