Adult Conversation

Today I have my class at the Dominican Center.... that means 6 hours of class, but 1 hour of having lunch with adults where I don't have to cut anyone's food or help anyone drink their milk.

And after, we're going to coffee! At the grungiest coffeehouse in town.

Well, maybe not the grungiest.... but close.

There we will have MORE adult conversation and I will not have to share my whipped cream with anyone!!

Thanksgiving Weekend Updated

My weekend included:

A visit to Urgent Care
Food Poisoning (Burger King)
1 Amazing Hotel Room
1 Not So Amazing Hotel Room
Toddler Travelling Well
Toddler Making His Parents and Grandma Laugh Hysterically
Toddler Keeping Parents Awake at Night
Toddler Being So Stinkin Cute During the Day
Dinner OUT - without Toddler
Lunch OUT - without Toddler
Sushi
Turkey
Pumpkin Pie
Beowulf in 3D
Hoobity
Lots of Coffee
Lots of Christmas Loot from Grandma (we celebrated Cmas early)
A visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Smooth Travelling through the City of Chicago
New Slippers

Misc.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The turkey is in the oven, the dressing is too, and the potatoes are cooked. Mother In Law will do the rest now. I am taking a break.

Guess who got food poisoning on the way over here? Can you believe it!? What a load of crap. Literally. Actually I think I got it at burger King, and It's not as bad as it could have been. I'm thankful for that. Thank GOD for having only "minor" food poisoning? Whatever....I'm gonna be fine.

Our little boy did the trip over like a trooper. He rocks so much. I can't stand it sometimes. We had the best EVER hotel room. Accidentally I booked a hotel I thought we'd stayed at before, turned out it was the same chain only a step up that is usually lots of $$. But since it was thanksgiving they cut their rates. We had a HUGE room - the nicest one since we stayed at the Amway for our honeymoon. Very nice blessing.

Husband has been taking over with childcare and helping out soo much while I've been under the weather last night and today. It's been great.

The Packers won - we're in Wisconsin and I usually don't care about such things but when we come back here, the Mister turns back into a rabid Packer fan. That's OK.... He deserves it.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend with family and/or friends. Friends can be family too. Or dogs or cats. However you spend it, I hope it's full of blessings.

Roller Coaster

I dont' think I mentioned yet that my husband is losing his job soon. We're not especially sure when. It seems the middle of next month.
See, the guys who bought the company he's worked for don't really know how to run a company. So they ran a company that wasn't doing all that well but had promise into the ground in short fashion. When you have people owning a company and don't know how to run it, but won't ask the people who might be able to help them run it any questions, then you have disaster on your hands.
Have you ever worked for people like this? I have. And my husband now has too.
So anyway, my husband is a unique and wonderful human being with unique and wonderful ways of coping with this sort of stress. He also has unique and not so wonderful ways of coping that frankly wear me out.
Lucky for us this is not 3.5 years ago when we first got married - I had no patience then for his flailing. Now, I can at least listen and keep my mouth shut. But dang, that wears me out! It's a lot of work keeping my trap shut mostly and responding ever so carefully if I do respond. He verbalizes a great deal of his processing, which what woman wouldn't love, right? But alas, I don't always have patience for hearing him one day telling me how the world is ending and we'll be on the street in a month and the next day telling me about his epiphany of how God is going to take care of us. Then the next day of woe and doom and gloom and then yet another epiphany of how God is going to take care of us.... etc. Roller Coaster.
I also must say that he's doing better than he has in the past with big stuff. He's a very mature wonderful man. And he's also getting on my nerves today. So I, rather than run my mouth at him, chose to tell him to please take the day - or at least part of it to work on job search stuff. So that later he can engage with our family like a real person and take a break from it. A break for all of us. "Promise me you'll then take the evening off and not talk about it whatsoever."
So far so good.
This is going to be a long ride, and I never like the roller coaster of his dealing with this sort of thing. But it's going to teach us a lot. And in the end, it will be OK.
It really really will.