May
7
Riley is sick: feverish, coughing, draped bonelessly over furniture with great unhappy anime eyes. He is utterly miserable, and so of course our household has been plunged into a state of bleak distress. I vaguely remember a time Before The Illness where the sounds of laughing children were heard and meals were consumed and the adults went about their business with smiles rather than grey, shadowed faces, but it already seems as though our current routine of wiping snot, tears, and grimly administering useless doses of fever reducer has become inescapable—like this is what parenthood is going to be like from here on out. Caring for depressed, consumptive toddlers who require 3 AM All Your Laundry Are Belong to Us Tylenol-barf cleanups. WOE.
Dylan thus far has remained illness-free but I can only assume he too will succumb, and then the adults will absorb the childrens’ germs and transform the symptoms into something even more disgusting in our clunky grownup bodies, like geysering arterial jets of blood from our eyesockets, and then there will be nothing left to do but burn our house down.
I am feeling maybe a little despairing today, can you tell? I wish it was sunny outside. And that I had a gallon of peppermint ice cream. With Xanax sprinkles.
In other news, I am kind of looking into hiring a nanny. We’re not unhappy with our daycare, but I’ve been thinking more and more that it might be nicer to have someone come to our house instead. There are pros and cons to both situations, really, and it may be that we simply can’t afford a nanny, even on the part-time basis we need, but you know, I’m checking it out.
So have any of you hired a caregiver before? I could use some help thinking of the right questions to ask. Also, if it turns out the right person is a young college student who can only work for us between now and fall, do you think that would be worthwhile, as long as we had a back-up plan when they start up school again (ie, hiring someone new or holding a spot at daycare)?
May
6
My first day at work? Surprisingly gratifying. I am, at the moment, glad to have Workplace back in my life.
(I wore jeans, low heels, and a fake wrap shirt thing, and that worked fine, except for the briefly terrifying/humiliating moment when I tripped on the stairs and nearly plummeted to my death. I am not used to wearing shoes, what can I say.)
Real quick-like, I thought I’d let you know that the fitness/health/etc blog I mentioned earlier is up. It’s hosted on Gather.com and sponsored by Boca Foods; my entries appear under the “Featured Articles” section. I’ve got three articles published at the moment, and the idea is to continue updating at least on a weekly basis (I’ll add another RSS widget thing to my site here at some point). This is where I plan to do most of my blathering about workouts, dieting, and my progress with fitting back into my Joe’s Jeans (current status: am able to button the waist, but cannot yet sit down without rupturing an internal organ).
Also, there will be progress photos. Dear god.
Anyway, please go check it out if you’re interested. I think you have to be a Gather.com member to post comments, but you can always email me if you have Blog Topic Requests.
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