Monday, July 14: I'm a little frustrated at the moment because it is currently 7:45pm and I do not know if I am to be keeping the boys tomorrow or not...Let's just say that Cody's vacation request is being ignored and he's not pushing the need for the time off. I don't know if that's strictly true, but it is what I've gathered from limited information (and therefore could be erroneous).
Nevertheless, I am very tired just now and feeling peevish about having to set my alarm for 6am without knowing if I actually shall have to be up at that hour or not. I had a rather rough night last night as John was so restless and never fully got over last week's tired before coming into this week. Not having a clear yes or no answer is not sitting well with me.
Fortunately, the boys were well behaved today. Caleb's kryptonite has turned out to be something very simple. He craves being called 'Excellent' in his behavior. And today, I told him very quietly I thought perhaps we should try for an Excellent day and so he mostly minded me without any issue.
I also made sure to let him help. He helped sweep the steps, helped me mop the floors, helped me prepare his lunch. He's quite capable of putting his own bread into the toaster and with my help he cut his own cucumber for his lunch plate. He was very pleased over those things. Katie dislikes having him in the kitchen because of all the dangers of which there are plenty, but I'm more prone to allow him to help me do smaller tasks. I'll let him put food to heat in the microwave. He pushes the right buttons and then I tell him to let it rest as it's hot. He minds me quite well. He's always been a very cautious sort of child, not fond of pain or danger in the least. That's partly why I do things with him, to build his confidence up.
As for young Henry, he was determined today to explore the house as a whole and since I cannot have him getting into things that are not childproofed, we agreed to disagree on his roaming freely about. He went into the playpen with minimal toys. If he has all of his toys, he tends to be rather irritable about things. I fed him a mixture of things he can easily pick up such as freeze-dried yogurt bites and a banana flavored grain thing called 'Puffs' and then gave him baby food. When I started to take him from the highchair, I sat a bottle of milk on the table within his sight and knowing that he was about to get that bottle stopped his usual temper tantrum about leaving the highchair.
All in all, it was a very good day. It doesn't make me any less tired, but it does make the day seem less hard.
Tuesday: I wish I could say I slept in or even slept well but I didn't. I had alarm anxiety all night long and kept waking to see if I had a message that I'd need to come keep the boys. I gave up about the time the alarm went off and gave in to getting up. Bonus was that as I leisurely sipped my coffee, John made me a proper big breakfast, and it was all delicious.
I decided today would be a day of catching up on rest but also catching up my thinking to my home schedule and the rest of my summer. The very first thing I did this morning, after watering the porch plants, was to come indoors and gather my notebooks. I reorganized and sorted through my current notebook and then flipped through my older notebook where I stash each year's notes and pulled a few things out of there to add to the current notebook because it falls in with my current planning. Now I'm ready to make both a list for the end of July and a goals list for August. I wanted to get organized before I began either of my goals lists. While I was at it, I copied out a few recipes I'd actually tried, and we liked but hadn't made it to my recipe notebook.
I misread the clock this morning and thinking it was nearly 1pm, I rushed into the kitchen and started doing various things there. I'd gone in to make lunch. I didn't start lunch. I sorted through the fridge, noted a zucchini looking like it needed to be used, pulled out four more (still have three in there. It is a zucchini summer for sure.) I grated that zucchini and measured out 1 cup increments to put into bags to freeze. I saved out 1 cup or more, added two over ripe bananas and made up another loaf of the zucchini chocolate loaf I'd made over July 4th. It tastes yummy. But I think with the added banana it needed more flour, and it definitely needed a pinch of salt. As well, I don't think it cooked long enough even though it was in the oven a full hour at a higher temperature than the original recipe called for...We'll eat it but I won't try altering that recipe again. It's very good when made as the recipe calls for it to be made.
I've puttered around, then come back to work on my notebooks and finish gathering my information. Now I am ready to sit down and plan the rest of summer.
And that is my post for today!
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