Well this has been a week back to routine except that since Vince is still out of town, the house is much, much cleaner & quieter. Edda has camp all week, we have childcare at the beginning and end of the day – so this marks the first week since Edda’s surgery that I’ve been back at work full time. And not unexpectedly, I’m a little blue. I applied for only one nursing job that I thought for sure I’d get, and I didn’t get it. Also, a visit to the gyn early in the week confirmed my segue into perimenopause as my estrogen levels have started to dip. Ack. Anyways, it’s all fine, of course. When I got my period in middle school I couldn’t believe then that I had to put up with it for decades (into the 2000s!) and now that it’s about to disappear in the next half decade or so, I’m getting all nostalgic.
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Kitachi’s birthday is on Friday, but she’s working only tonight and tomorrow night this week. Jeremy’s out tomorrow night, so tonight was the night to celebrate! We made her favorite dinner – tacos and had a brownie cheesecake. Yummy. Kitachi is moving to Texas in a few weeks, she’s been with us for over two years now. We’ll miss her a bunch. I’m always both happy and sad when our care providers move on…I know they gotta do other things, but they’ve become an extension of our family. Sometimes I think they know Edda better than I know Edda. Maybe Edda lets them in on her little secrets that she doesn’t tell me.
