Hubby and I received renewal papers for our “frosties” and had it not been for our recent experiment that cost us mucho dineros and was cancelled (although we are still awaiting results, just in case), we would have probobly renewed. But, truth be told, I was only keeping them around because we had no other hope. I needed back up, for me, to always know that there was one last chance at another child waiting in the sidelines. Hubby thinks that they were holding us back and it is time to let go. I cried and am still not 100% convinced it was the right thing to do, but we just can’t keep paying them “just in case”. So now “J” is our biggest (and most expensive) miracle, which makes everyday with him even more special and rewarding. We will continue our fight to add to our family but, we will be doing it on our own. And who knows maybe there is a botched experiment with a happy ending.
I remember being the personal slave while growing up. Actually each of us (me and my three Sisters) took turns being the personal slave. My older Sister had the shortest stint, being two years older than me, I replaced her rather quickly. Seven years later my next Sister was born, I was able to pass the torch on to her at the exact moment she was able to walk. Then, another seven years go by and lo and behold her relief arrived!! My youngest Sister was crafty from a very young age. She realized that personal slaves were invaluable and started charging for her services.
$1.00 for a run to the kitchen from the tv room
$0.50 for a channel change on the tv
$0.75 for back massages, that she was very good at!!
Here we are many years later and on a good day, I can count on “J” to be my personal slave 🙂 This doesn’t work every day, but on days that he is feeling helpful it definately works to my advantage. Our dogs love to go outside, constantly. “J” now can slide open the patio door and let them in and out. Gone are my days of being disturbed by them all the time, I can now share the annoyance with someone else. If I need a remote or a book off the counter or even something from another room, “J” is there to help me out. I only hope that his help continues on for a great long while, I finally understand why my Dad loved to have us girls running around for him.
I couldn’t take the sitting around yesterday. Hubby doesn’t get it that our home is my office and when the weekend comes, I don’t want to sit around here while he sits on a chair and reads a french book or the paper or whatever. I spend all week cleaning, playing and hanging out, when the weekend comes I want us to head out and do something. I finally suggested a museum yesterday, mostly because we didn’t need to go shopping for anything, it was a little chilly for the canal, and we bought the membership and hadn’t gone to the Science Museum yet. We packed up and headed off.
It turned out to be quite fun! “J” got to touch and play with everything, he mostly loved all the headphones and phones everywhere. I will say that I was a little disappointed, it has changed since I was a kid and since we used to take “A” there. There didn’t seem to be as much to play with and experiment as I remembered. And I was definately disppointed at the space section. There was nothing about the Canadarm, and there were mostly posters and videos instead of the real thing (or replicas) to look at. “J” had lots of fun and had a good nap after, so it meant that he got lots of running around excercise and that makes it worth it hands down.
The farm should have the animals in this week, so hopefully we will go there agian soon and maybe bring “J2”!
