July 15, 2022
1. It cost an arm and a leg but I’m so very glad that we did get the backyard renovated when we did. We didn’t do anything fancy, we just made it less of a jungle and more of a safe outdoor place for all the dogs and kids to hang out. They make their own fun: finding the sunbeams, finding ways to make a mess, raking the potato plants unnecessarily.
July 8, 2022
1. I had one semi good parenting moment this week (month/year). JB sat and talked to me about an incident they didn’t feel good about and didn’t want to tell anyone else about.
I haven’t felt like a present or good enough parent in a really long time and I have deeply worried that that would affect their trust in me. Hell, it eroded my trust in me! But I suppose I was working from a lot less self trust to begin with.
2. We ran into a handful of old daycare friends this week and it was quite nice catching up with them.
3. Smol Acrobat’s willingness to wave goodbye to friends we know and love but they haven’t quite yet embraced was purchased with three snacks.
July 1, 2022
1. Whenever I see an author I like on Twitter, I make sure to ask the library to add their books to our collection. Support authors!
2. Walgreens didn’t credit my $5 promo Walgreens cash after a purchase last week. Happily it only took two attempts on chat to get it credited. It’s gotta be the little things these days.
Challenges this week: everything, y’all.
June 24, 2022
1. Equal parenting: I take the hit the first day a kid’s sick because I roll with the initial punch more easily. PiC then takes sick time to take them the next day(s) once he’s had a bit of time to adjust.
2. This is me being hopeful: we’re meeting a potential dogsitter for Sera this weekend. They’re a really long haul away, so I’m really not looking forward to that exhausting back and forth but cross your fingers that she’s as good for Sera as I hope she can be?
Challenges this week:
June 17, 2022
1. I submitted a whole sheaf of FSA claims all at once to create a nice future dopamine hit. (The original plan was to submit it and forget it but darn I keep going back to see if it’s been approved. Tell me to ignore it now please!)
2. JB’s summer care is run by a childcare facility under their normal programming so I think/hope it’ll also qualify for FSA redemption. We’ll find out! Especially since we thought that $5000 dependent daycare money would be easily used up by Smol by this time in the year, but we currently don’t know when Smol will be able to enroll.
Physically been a rough week after an emotionally rough…. Feels like forever?
June 10, 2022
Heck of a week.
1. We brought home an armload of clothes to donate. JB even liked the one thing I picked for them which was a surprise.
June 3, 2022
1. Given the state of the world, it almost feels wrong to find things to be glad of but I know that we need to. So! I’m very grateful for having help this week. in COVID times, I get to feel human and patient twice a year, when we have this kind of help. This reminder from Mary Oliver’s writing is very apt.
2. A dear friend sent me a handful of sewing supplies and it’s amazing.
3. I’m afraid to get my hopes up but there was a suggestion that we might have under-5 vaccines by the end of June? Maybe?
I need to decide where to donate. This latest string of mass murders has me feeling stymied, like there is just no hope left. There must be, I am just having trouble finding it.
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