Sunday, March 22, 2009

Dirt Therapy

I've been joking around lately about being on the "30 day plan to a crazier you". Problem is, it's taking less than 30 days. Work is nuts. It's a busy time of year, we're still experiencing growing pains from the merger & everyone's stress level is high.

Home is also a little bonkers. Laney is TWO! She's read the toddler manuel and is making sure she does it ALL. She's cute & adorable and learning so much. I love her. And she knows her own mind, she's taken to repeating everything she says 5 times, she's a pain at the dinner table lately. I still love her, but I'm tired.

And we had another wheezing incident this week, so that makes it the "A" word - Asthma. At some point during all the free time I have at work, I need to get her scheduled to see the specialist. On the plus side, I have been putting off getting Kat scheduled for one of her normal follow ups, so I'm going to try to get them scheduled together.

Speaking of Kat, she was amazing this week. She got to spend the first part of her Spring Break in Orlando with the band. She got home Tuesday. Laney started getting sick Tuesday night. I took Laney with me to work Wednesday morning and was planning on taking her back with me after her Dr's appointment. Then I realized that she really needed to be home, but I really needed to be at work. Kat bailed me out. She ended up baby sitting four hours on Wednesday and another four hours on Thursday. Saved my bacon, the Lord provided, etc.

So anyways, it's been 4 paragraphs & I am finally getting to the title. Two weeks ago, we had a big chore day & I spent most of my time cleaning out the rose bed and feeding the azaleas. It felt good to play in the dirt. Laney loved it too. I even went out and bought her a plastic spade and the little rake thing so we could do it again. Then it rained last week. And I worked yesterday. Argh.

Today on the way home from church, we stopped at the nursery, bought two 12 packs of impatiens and two rose bushes. After nap, Laney and I planted the impatiens. Kat & her mom showed up while we were planting with a pack of flower seeds in hand, so we planted those too. After we were done with that, I set Laney up to watch "The Fox and the Hound" and went out and planted the new roses. All better now. At least until tomorrow morning. Is it April 1st yet?

2 comments:

Melanie said...

Goodness.....I do have to say that it seems pretty common that everyone is losing their mind these days. Oh Vey! Laney is cute as ever and looks very into the planting. Hang in there...I would like to tell you that the toddler behavior gets better but I think that it just changes and morphs into something else constantly! We are currently so SASSY that we can't stand ourselves!!!

Tara said...

She's getting so big! I understand about her being two. I have one of "those" two year olds myself. Hang in there and I hope everyone is better soon.