Sunday Shorts

Here are some quickee stories for this quickee day (I really would love to get back the hour I lost to Daylight Savings Time this morning):

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Dinner last night was very nice. I selected Olive Garden as our restaurant – nice enough to have wine, but family friendly enough so that my girls would not be the only children there. Libby Doodle Doo displayed her usual “bottomless pit” appetite. I finally shut her off after a full 90 minutes of non-stop eating. Little Zo Peep started to feel feverish three-quarters through dinner. She put her coat on to overcome her chills and later wrapped my coat around herself too. By the end of dinner she had fallen asleep in her chair. We got home at 9 and I put both of them to sleep. Zo Peep is back to normal this morning. Libby Doodle Doo has a very runny nose and may have the beginnings of a cold (no fever yet).

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I continue to see differences between my two girls. We had to wait over 30 minutes for our table last night. In the lobby area – and then later at the table – Libby Doodle Doo really worked the crowd. She waved BYE BYE to folks as they left the restaurant or went inside to be seated. She babbled to anyone who sat near us. She established eye contact and then laughed and giggled to people in the lobby area or at other tables. Throughout the evening I saw people watching her and commenting to their companions about my little one.

Zo Peep -- as a baby -- was much more introverted. She would watch people, but not interact with them. Plenty of people would approach me about Zo Peep because she was always such a strikingly attractive baby and toddler – but they had little interaction with her. I get comments on Libby Doodle Doo looks too, but many more about her personality and for the high level of activity that she displays at all times.

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It’s snowy and cold here today, but very,very sunny – with azure skies and wispy white clouds. I always find if the sun is out the temperature (no matter what the thermometer says) doesn’t feel quite as bad. This “well at least it is sunny” attitude always got me through the wicked cold winters I experienced in Chicago during grad school and in Wisconsin when I worked there.

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My work life is VERY busy these days. I returned on Feb 11th to not one BUT TWO business catastrophes , not to mention some general business issues that need to be addressed ASAP. And although I have a great hard-working team, we’ve been short staffed for over 6 months. So I may have to cut back on my posting schedule for the next month or so. I’m still going to try to write daily, but want to give you all the heads up that I may miss a posting once or twice each week. -- I hope not, but may have to.