Author: Doris

Friday night movie night. We saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid – part 3? It got 4.5 stars on iTunes – crazy. Edda loved it the most!

So I took another test in Anatomy today. It was fine. I’m getting a little discouraged because the first round admissions to nursing school have been sent out, and yet, my application still remains “pending”. I’m a little confused – as I don’t really know how my application could have been better. Oh well. I’m pretty sure I’ll know in the next week or so, but I’ve been thinking about what I can do if this nursing thing falls through. I thought I needed to open a pie business. Jeremy looked at me like I was crazy – he said that I have no food experience. I told him that I was very good at eating pie. That should count for something at least.

Our new au pair, Nat is here – and she is a lot of fun. She also loves ice cream, I think we might have made a resolution tonight to try all the Ben and Jerry’s flavors during her time here. Tonight we tried Imagine Whirled Peace and New York Super Fudge Chunk. I was very good and didn’t have any. I’ve been trying not to have any sweets during the work week with minimal success. Jeremy is interested in trying out this fasting diet that was recommended to him by his mother – fast for 2 days and eat whatever you want for the other five days. Now the question is, which 2 days to fast? Tricky question. It’s so nice outside these days, I’m really loving the days of beautiful weather.

Hard to believe that two weeks ago, it snowed 2 inches. It got to 80 degrees today and I think it might get to 90 tomorrow. I usually enjoy a month or so without climate control and just having the windows open, but it might not happen this year. I just might have to turn the AC on tomorrow.

Here’s Edda at OT today.  She is sleeping because she had OT, PT in school as well as recess and PE outside.

I ran ten miles yesterday! At the Cherry Blossom 10 miler – downtown. It was a little early for the blooms, but it was a beautiful day and perfect for running. For those who care, Christine and I ran negative splits :)!!!

This is the week after spring break, it’s actually a short week for everyone. Last week, Jeremy and Vince went to Kiki’s house in New Mexico to help put mud on the walls. It’s been planned for so long, this house, this week of mudding. Jeremy’s brother Ben and nephew Felix traveled all the way from Sweden to participate. Three generations all together putting mud with their own hands onto the walls of this house. From reports from Jeremy, they worked long days and ate well and the kids had a great time. Vince was not allowed to bring electronics of any sort (which if you know him, really cripples his sources of entertainment, but it almost didn’t matter anyway – there’s no cell coverage or wi-fi where they were going to be) and I was a little worried about him getting bored or fighting with Felix. Luckily, none of these worries came to pass, Vince and Felix got along great and they basically played in the mud for nine hours each day. I guess making mud pies, getting mud on each other, etc. I got to see photos of the house, of the kids playing together.

There might be more dogs here than people. Maybe.

Edda’s real birthday was on Sunday the 24th. It was just going to be me and Edda as Vince and Jeremy already left for New Mexico the day before. A few years ago, Jeremy was traveling for work on Edda’s birthday and I made him promise that he would not leave me alone with Edda on her birthday – it was just too tough to celebrate without him. But something about this year, maybe our pancake breakfast a few weeks ago, maybe because it was just me and Edda and maybe because it was spring break, but the day was just filled with my own happiness and Edda’s happiness. We went to the dog park, to see a movie where we shared a box of popcorn, shopping and had dinner with family and ate a lot. And it was good. Look how big Edda is!

Boys are off to sunny New Mexico!