Vince’s birthday party.

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We had a little birthday party at school. Just the perfect size for a four-year old. Enough excitement for everybody without too much hassle. Here’s his whole class and his teachers. Vince talked about his birthday so much in class during the week that one of the kids actually had a gift in the morning for him and then some parents, when they realized that it was his birthday, had presents for him when they picked up their children. All very sweet and just the right size.

It’s also my 4 year anniversary of being a mother, it’s been wonderful and stressful at the same time. I hope I’m doing OK.

Thursday Morning

Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Not a whole lot has happened in the recent days. It’s been raining on and off so I’ve been pretty lazy with the riding. Trying to get on my trainer and work out in the garage some.

This morning I rode to work in a massive headwind. That totally sucked. At least it was reasonably warm. It was probably in the 60’s altho coming in a 10:30 probably helped a little bit there.

This morning I’m working on a Java Exception Handling document. It should give us all guidelines on how we should code in java. I wasn’t very happy with the set of guidelines that we had come up with earlier. There was a lot of arguing on my part once again last week. 😛

Yesterday was a day full of meetings- from 9:30am to 4:30pm. I had a LOCKSS meeting in the morning. basically it’s my research project to evaulate a bunch of storage systems – LOCKSS is one of them. It’s sort of politico since LOCKSS is a part of stanford libraries but sort of on the outside and run as it’s own business group.

also we had a security audit on our architecture yesterday. interesting. I kept mostly quiet. but we need to definitely think a lot more about security in general and start implementing something. sigh

This weekend – more rain, bike shop on sat, poker sat night, long ride (hopefully not in the rain) on sunday.

let’s hope it doesn’t rain tonight so i can get home okay!

Feeling sorry for myself again.

OK, I haven’t written over the past few days, but things have been going crazy around here. Here’s our schedule for the past 2 days. Remember that this whole time, Jeremy is swamped at work with crazy technical crap that has to get done soon before we leave in 3 weeks – so there are early meetings to attend, late calls, etc…

Yesterday,

8:30 am – drop Vince off at school
8:40 am – call cab to take Edda to school
9:00 am – get in cab
9:25 am – get Edda to school
9:50 am – walk in heat to go to (unexpected) parent support group
10:10 am – find myself in a room with 5 other mothers I’ve never met before with tales of woe
10:40 am – walk in heat back to school
11:00 am – find out Edda cried the whole time
11:05 am – hail a cab on hot sidewalk
11:25 am – pick Vince up from school
lunch, nap
3:00 pm – Jeremy heads home from work
3:00 pm – drop Vince off at neighbor’s house
3:05 pm – go to hospital
4:00 pm – Jermey goes to Vince’s parent-teacher conference
4:10 pm – Edda gets ultrasound of kidneys and bladder which are OK, but I had to ask an unsuspecting parent in the waiting room to help hold Edda’s legs still while I hold her arms while Edda screams her head off for 20 minutes
4:30 pm – Jeremy runs to bank to open checking account because therapy bill is overdue and will only take checks and we don’t have a checking account
5:00 pm – Jeremy runs home to start conference call
5:20 pm – We see doctor who confirms that Edda’s parts are OK which is what the ultrasound person told us an hour ago
5:30 pm – Vince comes home from neighbor
6:30 pm – Doris and Edda home from hospital

Today:

8:30 am – drop Vince off from school
9:00 am – go home and wait for Rukia, our housekeeper and friend
9:10 am – take Rukia and Edda to school because Rukia is going to take Edda herself tomorrow because Jeremy and I are going to Vince’s school to celebrate his birthday party
9:30 am – get to Edda’s school
9:40 am – 10:45 am – chat with Rukia at the Cheese Prata place across the street (it was very nice to have some time with a friend without the kids)
10:50 am – back at Edda’s school to find out that she’d been screaming the whole time so they took her outside to the playground
11:00 – hail cab on hot sidewalk
11:30 – pick up Vince – say bye to Rukia
lunch, nap
1:30 pm – send Vince to neighbor’s
1:35 pm – get cab to drive to therapy
2:00 pm – nice physical therapy session
3:00 pm – walk to taxi stand – grab a sandwich to eat while walking because Edda is screaming her head off
4:00 pm – come home, get Vince from neighbor
4:50 pm – Kate comes over for dinner
5:00 pm – make dinner for all of us
7:00 pm – Kate heads home

I am tired. Also, Edda is going ape-shit on her hand, the splint has been thwarted.

Thumbs up!

Ruby came home from her sleepover with a good report card. Elaine and Livvy are going to take care of Ruby for a month!

I’m a bit ashamed of myself today as I watched a petty theft in progress and did nothing to stop it. There is an lady who sells ice cream from a little cart near the MRT stop by our house. uring the day, it’s usually all wrapped up under a tarp and she usually unfurls the tarp and sets up her shop in the afternoon for the after school rush. Jeremy and I walked past the cart while it was under wraps and watched a little old lady steal the clips which were holding the tarp down. They are only worth a dollar or so for about 10 of them, but still. I guess I should have done something, but I just walked on by. Sigh.

May the celebrations begin…

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We thought about a birthday party for Vince this weekend, but it fell through based on our poor planning, but I did manage to get a cake. We are planning to have a birthday party at school – goody bags are made and a cake will be ordered.

Walking in the park.

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Our weekly park visit. I have Edda’s arm in an adult’s wrist brace to prevent her from putting her hand in her mouth. But I think she’s figured out about her other hand. Hmmm… 2 braces? It’s better than the Elizabethian collar that I was thinking of using.