1. Last week, Sister-In-Law looked after Carolyn. Guess what she did? In just three days, she taught Carolyn to put herself down for a nap! Saturday I was able to put her down and walk out of the room and she slept for almost an entire hour. And then yesterday at church, she put herself to sleep in the car seat during sacrament meeting. That's never happened before.
2. Oh, Sister-In-Law also clipped Carolyn's near-deadly fingernails. I hate clipping them. I swear I've almost cut Carolyn's entire finger off at least twice - now I'm gun shy.
3. Husband and I sat down last night and watched that show on TLC called Sister Wives. It follows a Utah polygamist family - a man and his three (soon to be four) wives. They're pretty modern polygamists, not the kind with the big hair and the puffy sleeved dresses who get married when they're twelve. It's an interesting look into their lives. Three of the wives work outside the home and the other one takes care of the kids that aren't in school. It kind of made me wish I had a sister wife just about now. I mean, the only problem I would have with it would be the inability to share Husband. And I also don't know if I could deal with another woman in my home. Other than that, sign me up!
4. I think I'm going to have to ask to be released from teaching the Sunbeam class at church. Yesterday, Husband and I both had classes at the exact time Carolyn needed to eat. I spent the last 45 minutes of church trying to hold the bottle, coral eight kids on the stand in the chapel while practicing for the primary program (I failed miserably), and keep them from poking Carolyn's eyes out. What is it about four-year-olds and sticking their fingers in baby's eyes?? Oh, and I also had to retrieve her binkie from three different children who thought they should have it in their mouths. This is another instance where a sister wife would come in handy.
5. Saturday was a day of mourning in the Peters house. Texas A&M lost to Missouri 30-9 and BYU lost to TCU 31-3. The only good thing was that Husband made some delicious pork taquitos and guacamole.
6. I'm totally one of those people who will pay three times as much for watermelon that's already cut up.
7. I applied for a job as a massage therapist at a chiropractic office on Friday. I figure as long as I have to work anyway, I might as well start applying for a job that I really want to do. I was thinking that the chiropractor integrated massage into his treatment plans, which is what I was so excited about. But now that I've read and re-read the advertisement, it appears that's not the case. It looks like there's just an open room at his office and I'll have to book my own clients. That's not what I'm after at all.
8. Husband dropped Carolyn off at her new babysitter's house this morning. It's this great girl from church who volunteered to help us out until Christmas. She's one of those people who, when you see her, you think, "That lady's really got it together!" But despite that, I made myself sick, sick, sick all weekend just thinking about having to leave her again.
9. And speaking of that, will there ever be a time when I will feel something other than anxiety and exhaustion??
10. My boss is still out sick. That means I still have nothing to do.
3 comments:
I commiserate on your nothing to do. Recently we have no customers. I've done all the busy work. So I spend most of my day reading blogs and news sites. Which makes me feel bad, because they're paying me to do it :/
Your baby is beautiful. You're doing a great job, even though you don't feel like it. And I would give you giant internet hugs, except that might be a bit odd, considering that I'm a random reader of your blog :P
Hope you have a good day. :D <3
Yay for Sister-in-Law! That will make things so much easier for you now!
I am so intrigued by Sister-Wives. I want to understand why they think what they do. And I am also fascinated that there is such a big group of them in Lehi. Who knew? I didn't. I read as much as could about this family. I just find it so interesting that we can share key doctrine but be SOOO on a different path. I wish I had cable so I could watch all the episodes but I just have to watch clips on the TLC page and anything I find on youtube. I read one article that said "I am looking forward to someone making a show called brother-husbands". Me too. And the crazy thing is that it actually exists. It's called Polyandry and National Geographic made a mini documentary about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yjrDSvze0. Again, I'm super fascinated by all this because I can't comprehend it.
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