Wednesday, October 17, 10:08am
Good Morning!
Well, here I am and its Groundhogs Day again. Ha!
Although I complained last week of the hot weather I am now biting my tongue because it is the second day in a row that we are stuck inside because of the soggy yard. I may send the both of them out in rain boots and sweatshirts and umbrellas just so I don't have to explain why its wet out. This is a tough one to handle understand when you are 4 you know?! Darn mother nature, no matter the age we are still in question of why weather is what it is.
The last couple of days have been a little on the frustrating side. In a nutshell on Monday I did way too much a have been paying the price ever since. I am fine and my little passenger is great but I think that the time has come for me to ask for a little help when needed. Hmmm... I am going to work really hard on that one. Unfortunately, my running days are over too. My feet just can't seem to cooperate and withstand a full days activity load and then manage to maintain somewhat of a normal shape for me to be able to go out and run. Big bummer! And the fact that he has permanently camped out very low down in my hips which makes the whole running thing a little difficult too. Although I should be delighted for the sabbatical, as the old saying goes, you don't know what you've got till its gone. "Just one more time!" she said as she threw herself on the floor and flailed around like a 2 year old throwing a category 5 tantrum. :) It doesn't help that with the awesome fall colors and that darn mother nature, she keeps teasing me as I gaze out the window at her taunting and challenging me to come out and run around "my loop" to conquer another 3 mile workout. I will be back and the best part about it is, when I am ready, it will be cold and blustery and I will fall in love all over again with crunchy snow under my feet; light feet that will carry just me, no passengers allowed! So here's me, not complaining. Here's me, waiting it out. Here's me, baking various fresh apple baked goods daily and enjoying every second of it. Please someone make the cravings stop!!!
We should have the crib up in "Tres" room this weekend and the bassinet in my room for little hands to check out and get used to its presence. I need a few more things for his room but other than that the only other thing he needs is a name. We are close. He has warm PJ's and onesies and other than that I'm not going to go too over board as I know very well they need next to nothing the first couple of months. My "prepared stay" visit is scheduled for 2 weeks from next Monday at the hospital. This always cracks me up as the name, prepared stay visit, is somewhat ironic. Who is really prepared? I have yet to be prepared for the 2 Ive got now! Maybe when they are gone and out of the house I will be there. At any rate, I think that I will stick with knowing full well in my heart that 3 really is a charm. I am worried about nothing. I know how to feed him. I know how to take care of his little circumcision. (poor little sore member!) I will have lots of help in the bathing department and there will be absolutely no shortage of hugs and kisses from "The Grande Sib Duo". And the furry brother too!
6 more weeks to go. Maybe. Depends. Question mark....
I was lucky enough to catch Oprah the other day. (Its has been close to 2 years now since I have last watched) It was an episode that was "Isaac friendly" so we parked ourselves on the couch and proceeded on. Jerry Seinfeld was on to promote his new movie Bee Movie. Which looks like so much fun! He is just one of my favorite people. He is so funny. That is such a generic term to use, but he is just genuinely a very funny man. I don't think that he has to try too hard, I don't think that he has to study anyone else or do research on how to come across as humorous he just is. At any rate they were talking about the previous week when his wife was on promoting her new cookbook. (One of those ones that would be 100% doable if you had a nanny and you started cooking at 3pm for dinnertime) What am I talking about, I will probably end up buying the stupid thing. ANYWAY, his wife was in the audience and Oprah was saying what a lovely couple they were and blah blah blah. She read a quote from him in this months O mag about where he said the most interesting/touching thing. Amongst other things he said that he, "Loved her (his wifes) aroundness." He loved just being in her presence. He said that sometimes he goes into her office and just sits there just to enjoy her "aroundness". It was so genuine and he went on to say that he was so sick and tired of people saying that marriage is work. Of course its work. Everything is work, he said. It made a ton of sense to me and I kind of drifted off into "mind coma" and dissected it to death. Its so true. If you really stop and think about it you have to work at everything. But, if you are lucky enough on the special occasion when the kids are in bed and the dishwasher is loading and working hard, you have manged to take your makeup off and brush your teeth you get to look over and say hello for the 1st time all day to that special person. You get to love your husband/wife aroundness and all the work that lead up to that moment. Its just good solid foundation for enjoying said moments. We live in a society that thrives on shoving oodles and oodles of activities/busyness into a tiny little 24 hour window. So when all that work/busyness is done no matter what it is from, the work that pays the bills to the work and compromises with your loved one about numerous things or the work of trying to explain that veggies will make you grow big and strong, you get to sit back and revel in the glory of just being around that person that makes you happy. All of the hard work culminates into enjoying that aroundness with the one person that you chose to adore. Life is work. Work hard. Thanks Jerry. 2 simple topics that can really be combined in one important lesson. We should all be so lucky.
That's all for me today. I have a really great picture that I will attach later of Jeb and I. It was taken 12 years ago this weekend. It is great. Hope you like the new layout for blog. Try to sign up for the blogarithm so that you will get updates when I update. I will check in again soon.
My love, all my love,
Cass
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