oh hey blog hiatus.
well hello there everybody. i'm back! did you miss me? did you even notice i was gone? actually, don't answer that, i'll just pretend that you did miss me and have been waiting on the edge of your seat until i came back.
[hoping that drinking more of these will give me more energy]
i'm home "babysitting" amelia today. i'm usually at work on wednesdays, but our usual babysitter (my lovely mother-in-law) is enjoying two weeks in hawaii and i couldn't find a backup for today. so i got to take an extra day to hang with my sweetie. and you know what? it's been unexpectedly awesome. we went to choo choo bob's for the first time, because miss amelia is having a train moment right now. for those of you not in the know, choo-choo bob's is a darling little train shop in st. paul. it has toys and trains and even shows with choo-choo bob himself. they also have about 10 train tables that kids can play with, so people just go there to visit and play like a park. you don't even have to buy anything to come in and let your little one burn of some steam with some steam engines. (and no, this post is not sponsored by choo choo bob, i just had no idea how amazing it was until today. we will most definitely be going back.)after the train store, we went to my work (of all places) to have a lunch date with my girlfriends. most of us started on the same team in our division and became really close, and now that we work in different departments, we have a weekly wednesday lunch date. i decided to bring amelia with today because they haven't seen her in a really long time. you guys, i think my favorite thing is bringing amelia to places where there are lots of people around. she is a true extrovert. she waves hi and bye to everyone she sees; there are even some lucky ones who are blown goodbye kisses. and she can keep up with the adult conversations better than some adults i know. we got the biggest kick out of her today.she's napping now, although i'm not sure how she's sleeping through the chainsaws RIGHT OUTSIDE HER WINDOW. i guess i don't really care how she's doing it, as long as she keeps doing it. naptime is sacred and i love it with all my being.
[we've been going outside a lot...this girl loves being outdoors]
we're surviving our time without Mister Man, although we miss him like crazy and can't wait to see him for 48 hours this weekend. if you ask amelia where daddy is, she says, "working'!" she must think that work is the worst if it keeps you away from home for so long. she loves to facetime with him while we're having breakfast and dinner, she pretends to feed him through the phone. she also loves to hang up on him, but that's probably just a sign of love too.i'm doing better than i thought i would be. the days are flying by, and i keep reminding myself that people do this for much longer, which helps curb my pity party. but you guys, i am SO TIRED ALL THE TIME. it's about all i can do to keep up with cleaning the kitchen and doing dishes before getting ready for bed and just zoning after i put amelia down for bed. we're talking 9pm people. that's my limit these days. which explains my absence here a bit. any extra energy i have is spent doing laundry or planning meals for the two of us, and there hasn't been anything left for everything with love. it always makes me a little nervous when i'm gone from here for a while. i feel like i'm losing momentum or people will forget about me or something. but then i realize that this place is not my job (although that'd be cool someday), it's my outlet. and if i don't have the energy for my outlet, that's okay. it'll be here when i get back.i'm giving up my editorial calendar for a while. i'm hoping to post a recipe or two, and maybe some other content here and there, but only when i feel like i can hack it. no need to be posting crap just for the sake of having a post, i don't care what the blogging gurus say. i mean, i wouldn't be me if i listened to what everybody else said would i?
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