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Good things
Jun. 22nd, 2019 09:59 pmWe're kind of in the Italian Renaissance style of scrambling to be glorious before the world collapses around us, but there will always be good things somewhere.
Grauwulf's med situation seems to be much improved (except for the bout of insomnia he's just probably coming out of, so ask me tomorrow, but still!! Two weeks of functional humans! Who does that?!?)
After several days of my child leaping off the walls and driving everyone nuts, we discovered the trampoline park that's a 10-minute drive away. Or rather, I discovered it; grauwulf took the Megatherium & her bestie there while I was at Balticon. Anyway, we went for an hour on Monday, and then went back on Tuesday & bought summer passes which will get us 2 hours free any day we go until the end of August. Also the Megatherium is just on the line between tiny & everyone else heights, so we can still go to their "toddler" time on Tuesday & Thursday mornings when the big kids aren't allowed in until noon. My legs are now convinced that stairs should work like trampolines, and my child needs a circus class for 6-year-olds after learning how to hang upside-down on the aerial silks in their "ninja" course.
I have acquired a bunch of storage paraphenalia and am slowly attempting to put organizational systems to work. TBD on how well that will take, but some progress has occurred...
The clothesline has been almost entirely eaten by trees (oops) and being me, I am opting towards adding a retractable clothesline to the deck, rather than doing some heavy pruning with a ladder. The mourning doves have fledged, so I don't feel too bad getting out the drill and mucking about on the deck, though today both chicks spent most of the day hanging out on the deck railing. We pretended not to see each other while I put out laundry. They're at the same stage as the chick we saw about a month ago when the Megatherium came running inside saying, "Mommy! I saw a duck!" and we discovered that fledgeling mourning doves do in fact look rather duck-like. Still significantly smaller than their parents, with speckled wings and more facial markings than the adults; I'm not quite sure what it is that makes this duck-like, but the feel is definitely there.
In our ongoing summer tradition of excelling at the library's summer reading club, we've visited 4 different branches in the last week and a half, including one we had never made it to before which was having a carnival-themed summer reading kick-off event. The Megatherium is now old enough that I can let her hang out in the children's section while I go browse the non-fiction shelves, and along with a giant stack of craft books and the lovely Birding is my Favorite Video Game by Rosemary Mosco, I also brought home something called Mommy Burnout which is probably another track on my hypothetical pop-songs for perimenopause album (working title only*). Anyway, I'm about half-way through and would recommend it to other overwhelmed parents for perspective at least, if only for the cameos of people doing worse than you are.
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*I asked That Device (Alexa) to play Owl City a while back while I was doing laundry or something, and had a moment of wanting this sound for explicitly post-20-somethings so intense that bits of the album started appearing in my head. All the articles about new midlife crises and millennials killing things and poppy radio songs collided in my head and I want this to exist *so much* but my skillset kind of ends at lyrics and basic tunes...
Grauwulf's med situation seems to be much improved (except for the bout of insomnia he's just probably coming out of, so ask me tomorrow, but still!! Two weeks of functional humans! Who does that?!?)
After several days of my child leaping off the walls and driving everyone nuts, we discovered the trampoline park that's a 10-minute drive away. Or rather, I discovered it; grauwulf took the Megatherium & her bestie there while I was at Balticon. Anyway, we went for an hour on Monday, and then went back on Tuesday & bought summer passes which will get us 2 hours free any day we go until the end of August. Also the Megatherium is just on the line between tiny & everyone else heights, so we can still go to their "toddler" time on Tuesday & Thursday mornings when the big kids aren't allowed in until noon. My legs are now convinced that stairs should work like trampolines, and my child needs a circus class for 6-year-olds after learning how to hang upside-down on the aerial silks in their "ninja" course.
I have acquired a bunch of storage paraphenalia and am slowly attempting to put organizational systems to work. TBD on how well that will take, but some progress has occurred...
The clothesline has been almost entirely eaten by trees (oops) and being me, I am opting towards adding a retractable clothesline to the deck, rather than doing some heavy pruning with a ladder. The mourning doves have fledged, so I don't feel too bad getting out the drill and mucking about on the deck, though today both chicks spent most of the day hanging out on the deck railing. We pretended not to see each other while I put out laundry. They're at the same stage as the chick we saw about a month ago when the Megatherium came running inside saying, "Mommy! I saw a duck!" and we discovered that fledgeling mourning doves do in fact look rather duck-like. Still significantly smaller than their parents, with speckled wings and more facial markings than the adults; I'm not quite sure what it is that makes this duck-like, but the feel is definitely there.
In our ongoing summer tradition of excelling at the library's summer reading club, we've visited 4 different branches in the last week and a half, including one we had never made it to before which was having a carnival-themed summer reading kick-off event. The Megatherium is now old enough that I can let her hang out in the children's section while I go browse the non-fiction shelves, and along with a giant stack of craft books and the lovely Birding is my Favorite Video Game by Rosemary Mosco, I also brought home something called Mommy Burnout which is probably another track on my hypothetical pop-songs for perimenopause album (working title only*). Anyway, I'm about half-way through and would recommend it to other overwhelmed parents for perspective at least, if only for the cameos of people doing worse than you are.
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*I asked That Device (Alexa) to play Owl City a while back while I was doing laundry or something, and had a moment of wanting this sound for explicitly post-20-somethings so intense that bits of the album started appearing in my head. All the articles about new midlife crises and millennials killing things and poppy radio songs collided in my head and I want this to exist *so much* but my skillset kind of ends at lyrics and basic tunes...
