Musing Aloud

Right now, Mondays are my favorite day of the week.  Poor Monday has always had a bad reputation, as the hated first day back to work after a lovely weekend of no day jobbery.  Well, since I don't work outside of my home, I don't have those back-to-work blues.  Except I do, in a way, go back to work, because Monday is the first day of my 2-day grandson-sitting stint.  And I luffs it so much.   I have the 2 year old all by himself, just me and him, and he's such an easy guy compared to his older brother.  He pretty much keeps himself entertained, something the older guy has never done.  And he loves books, so he's my book buddy.  We hang out and then we go to the gym where he goes to the child care room and I do my yoga.  Then we come back and he goes down for a nap and I do my quick internet catch-up.  Now that my D-i-L is working 5 -day weeks, the hours are so much better than my former 10 hr days.  So after nap, I have another hour or so with him before he leaves.  I've kissed his face so many times today, it's really ridiculous.  He started something new this weekend, he now runs everywhere instead of walking.  We went over to see my mother this morning and he ran down the hallways, stopping only to see the litte ceramic doggie outside one resident's door. "Awwwwwww, a doggie," he said.  And then after being discouraged from picking it up, it was, "Bye, doggie!" and off he went, running down the hallway. 

We've been at the coast for a week now.  I had 2 stories I wanted to finish -- 1 for a sub, and 1 for a crit group -- and I did!  Yay!  So I've actually been working very hard. 

My son and d-i-l and grandtoddler are on their way over.  I'm so excited I can't stand it, cause I miss the little guy desperately.  I talked to him on the phone yesterday, and he's just so darn cute.  (No prejudice there!)  So big changes afoot in that area.  On Monday, he starts a new daycare.  It's a smaller preschool setting, only 6 kids, and only 3 houses from their own, so it'll be very convenient.  He went yesterday for just a few hours and was so excited about it.  He painted a picture!  And went "camping", which is what they call their naptime.  And he actually slept during said naptime.  It'll be a great environment for him, he needs to be around other kids more and in a more disciplined structure so he starts learning better behaviors, especially around other kids. 

The bad news for me is that I really wanted him to go 2 days a week to the daycare, giving me 2 days a week with him.  But alas, the daycare only accepts part-timers at 3 days a week.  That leaves me only 1 day a week (his momma works 4 day weeks).  I've been pretty despressed about it, to tell the truth, from a purely selfish point of view.  I just don't want the one day a week to be "new" to him.  I liked it that it was routine and he was happy with me and not missing his parents and all that.  He's so young yet that he'll adjust fairly rapidly.  I'm just afraid I'll hear "I don't wanna go to grandma's!" now, and that would break my heart. 

On the bright side, look at all the writing time I'll have.  I'm sure I'll get over the sadness and be enjoying it immensely.  And then the new baby comes in April, so by June/July I'll be back at it again, so this will probably only be a temporary situation.  I don't think they can afford to pay two daycares at the moment anyway, and I really don't want the baby to have to go to daycare yet.  He'll have to go one day a week because I have to have my Wednesdays free.

Ok, I'll shut up now, over and out. I did some stats yesterday and was pretty pleased, but I don't have time to post them yet.

Happy New Year, one and all.  ((Consider yourself hugged.))

Going dark -- well, I suppose I should amend that to "darker" as I haven't been so regular on the posting end of things. But I have been reading and trying to comment more often on ya'll's blogs. Tomorrow we leave for our annual, or in this case, biannual, Disneyland trip. Yes, this will be our third trip in one year. What can I say. Son #1 and D-i-L want to go before she's big huge preggers. But we usually go in November anyway. We just happened to have also gone in Feb. of this year, after our early Nov. 08 trip. Yes this will be the grandson's 4th trip (I think -- I've lost count), and he's only 2 1/2. They're not expecting to go again for awhile now though, because of the baby coming in April. HAH! I say. My son can't stay away, especially when he knows we're going and we're buying annual passes, so I know we'll go again next year at least once and possibly twice. Son #2 is going with us too this time. He didn't go last year as he'd just broken up with his girlfriend of 5 years and the past Disneyland memories would have been too raw for him.

Oh, and did I mention that my second grandchild is another boy? ;0 No girls for this grandma. That's ok, I like my boys.