My poor little Hockey Star. He has been so grumpy for the last five days, between the hours of 1 and 3. Hubby and I have not been able to figure it out. Sleep, check. Food, check. Playtime, check. Oh, what can it be? Yesterday, my oh so smart Sister suggested, perhaps he misses his Opa!!!
And to this I had to agree. Opa would play with him for a few hours every afternoon, after we finished our morning stuff. Every single day we do something in the morning together, J and I. But the afternoons are left free because I usually run out of steam. Opa picked up the slack, so it would seem that perhaps I need to pick up where Opa left off.
Anyone up for a game of shinny?
Novel is going well, I am at 10,000 words! Can you believe it?? Jo(e) suggested I post an excerpt here and there to let you see into the life of my novel, but I am a bit nervous. Her idea is so great, but the only thing keeping me going so far is that I know nobody else is reading what I write. And I am not even sure I want anybody to read it when it’s done, not without some editing at least.
More snow came and went this weekend. I seem to go in and out of the holiday spirit when that happens. And poor J keeps thinking it’s Christmas already. I don’t know how I can keep him from thinking it is Christmas everyday.
Over at Ann’s blog she posted about this new great blog called Kiddley, it showcases stuff for kids. It is so great that I had to highlight it here too for the one or two of you that might not catch it over at Ann’s blog. Ann finds the coolest stuff sometimes. There is a Lego Advent Calendar in the Kiddley Links section. I really want to see if I can get this for J, he would just love it to pieces, so far not available in Canada, but they do ship to the States.
I was actually thinking of making my own Advent Calendar, but this one would be such a hit, I may have to find one.
I hope you all have a wonderful Monday, it looks like the sun is going to peek through. Perhaps with the extra rain and clouds we had throughout September and October, November won’t be our gloomiest month of the year this year! Here’s hoping 🙂
Since I am trying very hard to keep all of my thoughts and words for my novel I have to admit that my posts might be a bit light for the month of November. I am at the 7300 word mark and if I keep up the rate of 2400 words a day, I should be finished by November 20th. Wouldn’t that be a treat! I feel really great at giving myself a deadline and sticking to it. I have lots of support here to give me time to write, so far all I have needed it two hours in the evening.
With winter fast approaching, we are going to be spending the weekend doing the last few outside chores and taking down the Halloween decorations. J still thinks he should be knocking on peoples doors and asking for candy, but we are slowing convincing him that it is a one day holiday until next year.
We had some snow the other day and it totally put me in the Christmas spirit. I am half finished gifts for the family, so I just need to work on the other half and some for freinds. I am trying to get all the difficult things out of the way early as we will be going in for our IVF in early December. All I am going to be doing after that is resting and hopfully snuggling some embroys for a long winter’s sleep. It was at this time four years ago that we did our IVF for J, so this is not new to me at all.
We also said good-bye to Opa on Wednesday. It is always sad when he leaves, we miss him so much, so I have been trying to keep J busy so he doesn’t miss him as much as us grown ups do.
