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Down Came the Rain
It’s raining pretty hard tonight. The dreary outside is matching my insides right now, too. Phil’s long work hours this week appear to be catching up to him. To me. To us both. After having worked a 24-hour shift the previous weekend and every day since, he had a 36-hour shift from Thursday morning to Friday night and is right back at it today on another 24-hour shift. And another 36-hour shift this coming Thursday. Would be nice if some of those hours included home-call, but no, not at his hospital. Those are all hours he is away and I am here holding down the fort. The kids are used…
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Preschool Snow Day
So Jonah. I think I’ve mentioned him around here before? Originally, I had been planning to keep Jonah home this year and send him to preschool next year where his brother, his sister, and his other sister all went. That little preschool at the church down the hill has been pretty much the only thing these siblings have had in common- well, that and their parents. Which, you know, is a good thing too. And were each brought home from the hospital in the gray Subaru Forester. And that’s about it. They were born in four different hospitals in two different states, each delivered by a different doctor, and were…
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Gone to Grandpa’s, part 3
Our last day with the grandparents arrived all too soon.
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Gone to Grandpa’s, part 2
On New Year’s morning, I woke up to find them like this:
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Gone to Grandpa’s, part 1
And with that, Christmas was over and Phil had to return to work the very next day. He was scheduled to work a lot of hours right through New Year’s day while the kids still had over a week of winter vacation left. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to go spend a few days with Grandpa and Grandma even though we had to leave poor Daddy behind. …
