Sick day

Today I had to stay home with the wee one.  Apparently the daycare that never has sick kids has one...and my son got the cold.  I took his temp and it's a little below normal but he was very congested all night and has been eating and sleeping all day.  This morning after being up off and on all night we finally decided to keep him home.  My husband is home tomorrow so today is my day to stay home with Ben. I wasn't really upset about that, I was tired from being up all night and I want to be the one to stay home with our sick son or at least have that option.  So I stayed home even though I know I have tons of things to do at work and a deadline for financial statements of Wednesday ( tomorrow). 

Tomorrow we have a doctor's appointment so we will see what the doctor says to do which I a sure is nothing but keep him warm and his nasal passage clear.  He hasn't been to fussy, just a bit clingy.  All he's done all day is eat and sleep. In fact he is asleep as I type.  I tried to put him on his tummy during one of his awake period and with in 5 mins he was back to sleep.  I guess he has learned the easy way out of tummy time is to lay on his tummy and sleep or relax...

Hopefully he gets better soon, I am missing the awake periods because he has become so interactive but also when he's sick the naps are short and sporadic which don't give me much time to do little projects...oh well...anything to be home with my baby.

Snow day fun

So due to the yesterday...I ended up taking Friday off to hang with the Bens and to hopefully get the house in some kind of order for the Sabbath...of course the later did not happen.
I spent the morning cooking and going through one thing in the kitchen... The I spent the lunchtime on the phone with a potential new boss but more on that later...in the afternoon Ben suggested I nap with him and I reluctantly (lol) gave in...Before I knew it it was 4pm. 
I did get to work on my closet a little and start preparing meals for next week so I would have things ready to eat and wouldn't get off the mission..

As I was cleaning the master bedroom...I have to go from a walk-in closet to a good size reach-in...which sucks but it was one of the cons of the house that I figured I would work with.  I put Ben in the toy I got off of free cycle...Hubs tried it yesterday and told me my guy had a blast.  He was so right as soon as his feet hit the floor my little guy was bouncing and turning and cooing...it was a joy to see...aww I love moments like that...they make me wish I stayed home full-time. (ignore the mess...as I stated I am going through the closet)

Winter Wonderland

So it snowed here last night and it wasn't a lot of snow but for the Mid-Atlantic it was more than enough.

We woke up to about 6 inches on the ground, which for me as a native New Englander and then going to college in the Midwest is nothing but for the people here it's all a rage.  Apparently, on the way home last night the traffic was bad because of the thunder snowstorm that cars got stuck in the snow and people ended up abandoning their cars.  This of course made it a hard and inconvenient to plow so the roads are not plowed as great as they should be.  However, the highway was all clear, which I found out on my way to work after my lovely 2 hour delay.

The news said there was a sheet of ice so bad on one of the roads yesterday that cars couldn't make it up a hill to get onto the main highway without each others help.  People said they were stuck on the 8 mile stretch for 12 hours because traffic was so bad...can we say Torture!!!!!

Luckily I was home by 2:45pm...I picked up the wee one late because I wanted to run to the grocery store so I could make dinner and then home we went.  The hubs was able to get off of work at 3:30 so he left work early and missed lots of the rush hour traffic home...even my workplace let out early... One of my coworkers who lives way north of the job didn't get home until 3am this morning because of traffic due to the weather...I can see why some people abandoned their cars.

All in all in the wee one's household things were quiet.  I made cornbread (vegan), bush baked beans ( I would have made chili but I am trying to do the Pantry Challenge I know I am a month late).  I figure I would do it anyway, since the month of February we are doing some strict budgeting and seeing how it goes so that I can further explore my stay at home option.  Along with beans, I made some seasoned potatoes (I only had two potatoes left and they needed to be cooked) and I made a salad.  It was delicious my corn beard was good...I forgot to take a picture before we cut it open...we ended up sticking it back in the oven to dry up a little more but it was still very delicious.

Then the hubby went down for a nap and the wee one and  I hung out and had some tummy time then I fed him and hubby put him to bed, which allowed me to finally finish the book The Help, which I mentioned here ( more on  the book later).

Then off to bed I went hoping for a snow day...which I clearly did not get since I am at work today.  However, I got a delay and it was nice to sleep in with the hubby and hang out with Ben.  Turns out though that daycare is closed due to lack of power...so the hubby had to telecommute this morning and I still had to come in.

little things

One of the best things about having my little guy is watching him grow and change daily...
He used to not make a sound when he laughed just open his mouth wide and eyes smiling.  Now he has a little muffled laugh sound that comes out when he laughs.
My other favorite little thing is his little hand goes up when ever he's nursing to hold my hand and then his other hand gets tucked on his side but in a push away motion as "if just in case someone tries to come and take my milk...I am ready"
It's the little things like that I miss as I sit at my desk all day wondering what he's doing and if he's having fun.
Today he was so tied he slept through most of the get ready for daycare process...but I hate when he wakes up at daycare because I think that's really jolting for him.
Humm to work or not to work...I keep thinking I will quit when my part-time stint is expired but then there are minutes when I think I can do this...I missed working and using my brain analytically...but those moments are always fleeting. what's a mom to do...