Okay, so I’ve discovered that keeping up a weekly blog is a lot of work! Kudos to all of you who manage to faithfully post updates to your blog in a timely fashion - I can only aspire to be like you!! You’d think that since I am home all day with just one little baby to take care of that I could manage to write a little something and download a few pictures. :) I used to think that I was a great multi-tasker; I hate it when talents disappear!! I go back to work in a week and I’m getting nervous about how I’m going to be able to handle everything. Erik isn’t sleeping through the night yet and I’m exhausted in the morning as I watch Kent get ready for work.
Kent had another overnight business trip the week of October 3 - he had budget review meetings in three different states - so I was going to be quite alone for the week. My Dad took pity on me and made the 14-hour drive from Ohio to Florida so he could spend the week with me. He needed to be in Tennessee the next weekend anyway, so what’s a little detour further south, right?! While Dad was here, he cooked up a storm of entrees to freeze so that Kent & I wouldn’t starve - I attempted to help, but was only able to produce a few loaves of banana bread in between the nursing sessions that seem to rule my life.
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| Pops & Erik |
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| Pops cooking - Thank you!! |
On October 8, our good friends, the Deininger’s, opened their home to over 20 people (kids included) to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Since several of our friends hail from our Neighbor to the North, Kent & I have the wonderful privilege of eating Thanksgiving dinner twice each year. Thank you, Canada! I’ve included some photos from the dinner in the October photo album.
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| Amy & Lisa with one of the yummy desserts! |
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| Tangie feeding Kohlden & Maddy |
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| Adam Deininger - Canadian mascot |
After Dad left Orlando and headed back up to Tennessee and then Ohio, I decided to try my hand at taking Erik with me on some errands. I only attempt 1 errand per outing and only 1 outing per day; it doesn’t sound like much, but I consider each attempt an amazing feat! Our little guy eats on a pretty strict 3-hour schedule (his schedule, not mine) and I don’t like to be caught out of the house when I need to nurse. My big outings this last week were to the mall on Wednesday to get a new watch battery and to Michael’s on Friday to get picture frames for Kent’s & my office. I’m happy to report that Erik did very well on both outings with only minimal crying before going to sleep (I timed both trips with naptime hoping he would sleep through them).
Big news related to our house is that work has begun on our pool & pool deck. The current concrete deck is uneven and cracked with one side being nearly 3/4 of an inch lower than the other side. This has caused problems with our water drainage, among other things. So, portions of the deck had to be removed in order to level everything out; we are also going to fill in several planter areas that were causing drainage issues and littering the pool. While the deck was going to be torn up, we decided to go ahead and redo the pool surface and tiles. By the end of the week, the pool was drained and about 1/3 of the new blue pool tiles installed. Next week should see the pool completely retiled & resurfaced as well as the new paver deck put in.
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