Recently

Recently I have:

• been crushed from weeks of uninterrupted hours tending two chronically sick kids
• felt privilege that comes only from being their primary nursemaid
  
• googled "croup" so often I'm pretty sure I have stridor

• cursed preschool germs
• praised preschool for everything else
  

• incurred black eye from orchestrating holiday photo
• come to understand poetic justice
  

• met kind stranger who paid my way through DC
• attended engagement party because of kind stranger
• enjoyed night-out @ Cavas Tavern with dear friends due to engagement party
• renewed joy and taste for tzatziki

• been ecstatic about new buttery soft black low-heeled boots
  
• thought they screamed men's department very next day

• inhaled Sadie for comfort and peace
• watched daughter move furniture to get her brother to sit next to her
• watched brother sit next to her even though he really wanted to play

• lost five pounds
• gained back six

• wondered why good underwear is so hard to find
• realized I may have to look farther than Target

• had two dreams come true: 1. find laid back friend in neighborhood with whom to share tea and 2. hear Mom play the same made-up games with my kids as she did with brother and me. (She does Batman voice surprisingly well. Oddly enough, Hulk even better.)
• been so thankful for parents
• thanked moon and stars for grandparents
  

• missed daily blog posting and reading
  
• realized I'm okay with that

• reconnected with someone important
• made plans to meet with her soon
  

• watched our wedding video
• attempted to make more "me time" as a result
  
• failed on the first attempt
  
• stayed up too late on the second

• trapped stinkbug underneath Abby's port-a-potty
• come to believe Snapper the fish is lonesome in Grayson's room

• really tried not to curse so much
• said "sugar" and "ding dang" like my grandma once did
  
• found new respect for my healthy body that refuses to catch anything preschool throws at it (yes, realize am fated to karmic puke-fest before spell checking this post.)
• stopped writing cutesy little love notes on Grayson's napkins
  
• eavesdropped on room parent's violin concert for preschoolers
• felt very proud when she later told me how engaged Grayson was
• laughed when hubby said, "I hope he didn't dance."
• emphatically hoped that he did

• been so hung up on maintaining the perfect
  
• had to keep reminding myself that is a self-induced state of mind
• stopped raising bar before kids couldn't reach it for themselves
• fallen back in love with messy, noisy and chaos a tiny tiny bit
  
• not denied adoration for order, peace and hottest shower two shoulders can handle

• hired a maid
• found amazing new babysitter
• raked leaves
• changed light bulbs
• stuck to a menu for two weeks straight
  
• gone decaf half of the time
• completely dug ride the other half