Starting to turn around
Aiyee, this has been a week I wouldn’t want to repeat. MrD spent three days suffering through a very nasty stomach bug, then transitioned seamlessly into a bad feverish cold. Today is Day 5 of toddler illness, and the fifth day of life pretty much coming to a halt in a way I could never have imagined before I had a baby. Everything I’d planned to do this week, from going to the post office, to writing more of my on-spec project, to sending emails...sigh. None of that has happened.
This afternoon, though, it finally feels like things are beginning to turn around. MrD is starting to return to his usual, cheerful self. It’s a warm, sunny day. I’m typing this on a lounger set out in our back yard, near the bed of vivid yellow and purple crocuses and tall daffodils. It’s amazing what a difference it makes to lie basking in sunlight and warmth for the first time after months of cold. In fact, the sunshine makes me feel so wild and crazy, I’ve actually rolled my jeans all the way up to my knees and taken off my socks and shoes. Heck, I’ve even unzipped my fleece jacket! (This is Wales in March, after all.)
And I had a fabulous piece of news today: the UK’s Reading Agency has chosen A Most Improper Magick (a.k.a., Kat, Incorrigible) as one of their selections for their 2011 Summer Reading Challenge! It’s the biggest national reading initiative in the UK, run in 95% of the libraries in the country, and I am really, really honored and thrilled that Kat gets to be a part of it.
It’s been a grueling week, physically and emotionally, and it’s been driving me crazy that I haven’t been able to do any of the work - both creative and practical - that desperately needs doing. But this afternoon, as I sit here in the sunshine with the flowers blooming in the garden around me, the nice news about Kat in my inbox, and best of all MrD running around laughing for the first time in days, I am feeling so much better.
This afternoon, though, it finally feels like things are beginning to turn around. MrD is starting to return to his usual, cheerful self. It’s a warm, sunny day. I’m typing this on a lounger set out in our back yard, near the bed of vivid yellow and purple crocuses and tall daffodils. It’s amazing what a difference it makes to lie basking in sunlight and warmth for the first time after months of cold. In fact, the sunshine makes me feel so wild and crazy, I’ve actually rolled my jeans all the way up to my knees and taken off my socks and shoes. Heck, I’ve even unzipped my fleece jacket! (This is Wales in March, after all.)
And I had a fabulous piece of news today: the UK’s Reading Agency has chosen A Most Improper Magick (a.k.a., Kat, Incorrigible) as one of their selections for their 2011 Summer Reading Challenge! It’s the biggest national reading initiative in the UK, run in 95% of the libraries in the country, and I am really, really honored and thrilled that Kat gets to be a part of it.
It’s been a grueling week, physically and emotionally, and it’s been driving me crazy that I haven’t been able to do any of the work - both creative and practical - that desperately needs doing. But this afternoon, as I sit here in the sunshine with the flowers blooming in the garden around me, the nice news about Kat in my inbox, and best of all MrD running around laughing for the first time in days, I am feeling so much better.