New Leaves

I need a vacation to get over my vacation.

I returned from Deleware on Sunday afternoon, however the phone was off (damn phone company) And it is back up today, so I may update and catch up. Have had precious little sleep since I've returned. Manna is absolutely driving me nuts with her meow-ing. She kept waking me up in the middle of the night, pawing my hair, walking across my pillow and meowing. I have resorted to giving her the bag of catnip and letting her have her wicked way with it. She's still concious, and insists on being within a three foot diameter of me, but at least the meow-ing has somewhat subsided. Am debating something to help me sleep tonight if she is still meowing.

I am also trying to get everything here situated. John brought stuff from the apartment which needs to be unpacked, and I need to get laundry finished.... you know the never ending list of things that never seem to be done, just keep recycling the chore list.

The vacation was really nice. The weather was sommat shitty until friday afternoon. I didn't get to go to Assateague (wild ponies) :( ... but, I did get to see my darling new nephew for the whole visit. I held him a lot, and fed him, and loved on him, and took his picture. He was so dear, it's enough to kick start maternal urges, which I've been fighting for a while. Even though he pee-ed on me twice when I changed his diaper. Yeah, it was nearly something right out of a sitcom when I peeked in the diaper to survey exactly what type of mess I was going to be cleaning up, and saw that there was no caca. Then I went for the wet whipe and then he unleashed.

John's parents are finally grandparents, and I can get some relief from the never ending crusade of "We really want grandkids...." I am somewhat jealous. Not in a bad way, just mildly envious. I don't know, we're the oldest couple in the family... it's been nine years... But I don't begrudge Jenni at all because she also had a hard time getting pregnant. I have to say that I am waiting for them to get used to having a grandkid, because they are nearly bonkers about 'protecting' the baby in public, etc. It's kinda cute.

John and I didn't really have any time alone until saturday when he suggested that we go for a boat ride alone. Which was very nice, even though we got stuck in a torrential downpour on the way back. We loved it. I can't believe that I am only now wondering why we didn't stop the boat..... Middle of the chesapeake bay, nobody around, torrential rain, no lightening.

Oh well.

The flights were uneventful. I even slept through a good part of them.

But I will never travel without any sleep again. I feel like I've got lag again.

I am sure I have a lot more to journal about, however, I am tired, and I need to do more laundry.

love you all
missed you all.

xxxxxxxxxxx

Posted by hawkie at August 4, 2003 07:10 PM