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March 10, 2003
March 10, 2003
Yes, we are still around. It’s been pretty crazy here with some ups and some downs. I feel a little isolated because I’ve hardly had the time to keep up with anyone around here. Mind you, I have to admit that I’ve been “moonlighting” over on the Weight Watchers Canada on line boards. I joined Weight Watchers online about a month ago and so I’ve been expending a lot of focus on that part of my life. Many of you know that I go way back with Weight Watchers but since Erika was born I just couldn’t get my act together to get back on track. This had been weighing very heavily on my heart and my mind so I decided to try and go the on line way rather than going to meetings etc. and for now, it’s working out very well. I seem to be back in the swing of things. I hope that I can keep the motivation going. I’ve almost lost 10 lbs now and it’s a good start. I have many, many, many more to go. I’m trying to cut it up into little goals though so that it doesn’t get too overwhelming.
As for our house………….. let’s not even talk about it. We’ve been kicked out of our home every Saturday and Sunday afternoon to have open houses. We’ve had a lot of close calls and I know there are some people out there very interested but they just can’t get their rears in gear to actually make us an offer. As time has moved on, tomorrow is the day that I thought would never come. We have to lift our subject to sale or we lose the new house. We’re meeting with our realtor tonight and our strategy is to try and get an extension. I hope we get that bit of extra breathing room but it also means that the stress will continue for a few more weeks. Last week we were close to giving up and throwing in the towel and just staying in our current home but we decided that we would keep plugging away. With the threat of interest rates rising and house prices still going up as well, we thought we’d better try to get into what we want now and then be able to stay put for a really long time. We’re not much into moving around and about. Our jobs are pretty steady and stable and neither of us are likely to get moved to somewhere where we might have to actually move again. This move is kind of intended to be a pretty permanent move where Erika and any other siblings she may have one day will grow up and spend their childhood and youth. That’s our thinking for now anyways.
Erika is doing well and changing so much. Our little chatterbox……. It’s hard to even catch up on all the things that she’s been up to. I want to tell a little story and I call it the Itsy-Bitsy Spider Story:
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider Story
I love this story and I want to write it down for Erika to read one day. I know that they sing a lot of songs at daycare with Erika and the kids and I know that they do a lot of the actions to the songs – may it be “official” sign language actions or just cute actions that go with the song. I didn’t even think about that for some time until I asked one of her teachers about Erika doing certain hand movements and actions I didn’t know about and it all comes out that they are parts of songs that they learn at daycare. I love to sing but I have been really not that great about singing lots of little songs to Erika. The other day I started singing the Itsy-Bitsy Spider song to her and I noticed her lifting her arms when it came to singing “out came the sun….” She knew almost all the actions and it was so cute to watch her dance around to the song. Then I tried Old MacDonald had a farm and she imitated the Eee-eye, eee-eye, Ooooh. Obviously she knew that song quite intimately, too. I love seeing her develop in those ways. It is so neat.
Speaking of music, Erika and I started a music class together. We go every Saturday morning and she is just thriving on that sort of stimulation. She is the youngest in the group and I was a little worried the first 2 weeks that she was maybe not quite able to pick everything up and understand everything. Well, was I wrong. I really noticed this past week and then at the class on the weekend that she was really getting it and participating. Now when we come home, we do all the same songs and movements and games at home and she loves it.
We’ve been dealing with a bit of sickness here and there. A cold here, an ear infection there and let’s see what else she can come down with. Many kids at daycare are picking up various viruses etc. so this will be a time of her coming home with various things. It’s hard to avoid. She’s also teething big time. But even with a little fever and some sore ears here and there, she remains such a happy, cheerful little child.
She is most intrigued by the cats and although her and Patches are still on no terms to even come close to each other, her and Spice are beginning to strike quite the little friendship. Well, friendship for Erika means that Spice is sort of starting to tolerate her a little bit more and doesn’t always run away from her in a great big panic.
I can’t think of much else that’s new around here. We’ve just been struggling with all the things going on around us that we have no control over ie. The house. Work is also stressful and I’m tired lots so some nights when Erika goes to bed and I think I’ll have some time for my knitting or stitching, I find that I sit on the couch and go straight to sleep. I’m really looking forward to spring.
Drop by to say HI on my TTM board.
Uli
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