Today was my chance to see how I can adapt to family life with two kids plus a migraine. It didn’t go so well… fortunately PisecoDad is still home (he doesn’t go back to work until next Wednesday). The morning (the pre-migraine part of the day) went fine. We went to the portrait studio and got some nice Halloween pictures, then took baby for her first US restaurant meal - in the mall - and did a little shopping as well. She’s often quite content to hang out in the sling and watch the world go by. JediBoy read me a new book (a level 2 I Can Read reader about the Land Before Time) at the bookstore and we bought it for him to bring home. BabyGirl and her dad settled in for an afternoon nap when we got home, and that’s about the time my migraine started to take hold. I tried to appease the migraine gods with Rapid Action Tylenol and a little first season Doctor, but the wicked migraine gods were having none of it.
By now - 7:30 in the evening - I’ve had it with the wicked migraine gods and I’m throwing everything I have at them.
Fortunately, my sweet little boy is too. I don’t know how or when he started the tradition of making notes and pictures to cheer us up when we’re sad or sick and to apologize when he’s done something we didn’t like, but I love the idea and it always makes me smile - and often cry in gratitude. Here’s tonight’s offering… “My Family.”
You can see his preferred pairing - I’m holding his hand and Dad is holding the baby. That’s a sparkly jewel in my hair, in case you were wondering, and scruff on Dad’s face (he tends not to shave on vacation!).
