Sorry blog for staying silent for so long.  So much happened in the 2.5 months since I've last updated.  First and foremost, Audrey turned 3!  We couldn't have a party but my parents came down and we had a socially distanced lunch of pizza and had cake the weekend before and then on the day after her birthday (Wednesday) we took the day off and had ( Read more... )

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Ordinary week until Wednesday.  Audrey was totally normal at wake up and even hanging out in the morning... she was dropped off at preschool at 9 am and temperature scanned at drop off - passed no issues.  Then I get a call sometime before 10 a.m. that she has a fever of 102 and to pick her up.  What!  I am super anxious on my way to get her ( Read more... )

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I recently found a handwritten journal I had kept in between the summer before 8th grade all the way to the summer before starting HS.  It was embarrassing but also amazing to look back on the minute details of my life.  I also realized I've kept a journal for much of my life on a daily basis up until recent years.  Here I try again to continue ( Read more... )

What a weird last few months.  All our lives have completely changed because of COVID.

It's Mother's Day tomorrow and will be a weird one for me not only because of COVID but because it's the first one without my nai nai.  My paternal grandmother was the rock holding my family together.  Through all the typical family bickering, everyone kept it ( Read more... )

It's been too long.  Seems like I hadn't updated since that last big illness.  Audrey had some good days since then.  We took a good vacation in Palm Desert.  I feel like it was the first vacation Audrey kind of understood we were on vacation. She likes vacation.  Highlights include Audrey peeing in the elevator and then pointing out how she peed ( Read more... )