There's something about getting away from it all for a few days that prompts a harsh reality check when the vacation is over. I don't know what kind of karma that is, but it never seems to fail that Maddy gets sick, or I pull out my back, or...whatever. This time around, Matt has had to be late both Monday and tonight as well. Last night I guess a server wasn't working properly or something like that all day and he was gone until 9. Tonight a business relation invited his team out to dinner at Morton's for some networking stuff. WHEW. I'm ready for daddy to get home on time tomorrow! I don't know how you ladies do it when your husbands travel or need to work past bedtime.
Maddy has been pretty good though, for the most part. She had a rough morning yesterday since it was the first day without grandma and grandpa and our first full day back. But she cheered up/stopped whining by lunch. So that's not too bad of a transition. She hasn't taken no for an answer very well lately. So that's something we will be working on for quite some time. She's a stubborn little thing and she knows what she wants!
We've had some mommy and Maddy fun over the last couple of days. Yesterday we laid on a blanket on the deck and watched the clouds. I'd point and tell her what I thought a cloud looked like and she'd point and babble about it. Then she'd roll over and give me a kiss and a hug. It was adorable. We've done a lot of snuggling lately with lots of hugs and kisses. Maddy enjoyed a chocolate icecream cone on the deck this evening. She probably licked away at that for about 40 minutes, I kid you not. I had to keep eating the cone since she'd lick down far enough to not be able to reach the icecream anymore. This morning, she and I went for a long walk and then stopped at the park. We were out the door by 7:45 since it was beautiful this morning. She loved that although I had to fight her screaming and kicking from the park. She's never met a cat-tail fuzzy she didn't like! Unfortunately, they don't like her and leave her stuffed up with runny eyes. This evening Maddy and I took a long walk through the common area of our place. She chased dragonflies, moths and grasshoppers. No, she didn't catch any, but she enjoyed chasing them. She found two sticks and then used a stump of a tree as a drum. That was really cute, too. After our long walk, she relaxed while being swung in our child swing. She LOVES to be swung before bed.
She had pity on me this evening and didn't fight me coming out of the bathtub. (She's been loving using her bathtub crayons on the walls so she doesn't want to get out.) It was actually a pretty pleasant bedtime routine. She sat up on my lap and smothered me with hugs and kisses interspersed with feeding me a few of her pretzel sticks and her drinking milk.
Well, Matt came home, he brought Chocolate mousse cake for me from Morton's. So I'm off to have part of that before bed. (Which I guess made the whole Mohammed joke raise it's ugly head again.) We have about 40 bottles of wine in the house now, and Man, if I don't want a glass!! But, as per my diet, I'm only having wine on the weekend... so it will have to wait until then. Are you sure it's only Tuesday??
Tea of the day: Stash Green Chai, Adagio Tropics Roobios
WO of the day: Long walk and then weights video