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Jiggity jig.

Actually...nappity nap... I AM EXHAUSTED. I never sleep when when I am away and this time was particularly bad. Course I also came home and forced myself into some face time with friends. One thing about people you like to consider friends is you actually have to spend time with them sometimes. So, I went to the girls night in, and drank wobbly pop, ate food, watched sappy movie (Passion of the Mind if you care). It was fun, gossipy and LATE. So now I'm not just travel tired, I'm over tired.

As for the beast.. .She's being a doll today. She's so tired, she emptied her own leftover lunch into the trash, carried her blanket and went up and crawled into bed. Just like that. All I had to do was find the lastest stuffed favourite (a white cat called Bianca that we picked up at the border on the way home) and deliver it to the bed. Oh..a kiss, a squishy hug, a lick and a push of the butterflies later, and she's down for her nap. WOW.

My options now _hmmm...clean, nah; work out, HAHAHAHA; move stuff for boarder, ugh; nap, YEEHAW... I think nap wins. Gotta love the logic of a two-year-old.

Oh...and trip details and excitements for when napping is less important.

Interesting.

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There are phrases in my vocabulary that I am told are Yiddish. My maiden name is very close to being Jewish. I wonder if the family was Jewish at one point. My father's family came over from Holland in 1945 and I remember my grandfather talking about hiding away from the Nazi's. I am not sure what the details were, but I have often wondered about this.

Parenting & Travelling

So. We went to the in-laws for Thanksgiving.   They furnished us with a hotel room in Chicago for the festivities which was nice and necessary given our current financial situation.  DOWNERS: Not getting much chance to actually visit because Katina was still sick and clingy,  not sleeping AT ALL for 4 days,  crappy snow driving to Chicago.  UPPERS:  Seeing the in-laws I haven't seen in a long time, great conversation with my step-son (OH MAN_I am a step-mom), awesome food (way to much of it), great conversation with my MIL, found new beverage which rocks my world (Protein Soy by BOATHOUSE?).

Parenting _ let's see.  I am tired taking care of the world.  I need time to take care of myself yet I am surrounded by people who need to be taken care of.  What's up with that?  And while I don't generally mind being "momma" to my friends, I am seriously resenting it in my significant other.  Parenting does NOT elicit feelings of desired intimacy, sexuality, equality and closeness.  It mutates those things and makes it feel SICK.  I'm seriously not into making out with children.  Whether is be behaviour, attitude or general inability to be a GROWN UP, I'm seriously tired of being everyone's  mommy and listening to them whine, watching them play around and generally be children. 

Phew... tell me again why I'm a social worker?  I know I know.  I do care.  And everyone that needs me, I have no problem being there.  Sometimes I just need to be the one being taken care of.