...is that we're close to family. This weekend, aunties Amanda (Drew's sister) and Jenn (Amanda's roommate) drove down from Seattle to spend a short weekend with us. We exchanged belated holiday and birthday gifts (Amanda was born New Year's Day). Rachel got a lovely piggy bank and I got a great set of pajamas, handmade by Jenn. I made Amanda a birthday dinner of roast chicken and potatoes, salad and chocolate cake with her mom's recipe for chocolate frosting.
On Saturday I was so zonked out from lack of sleep that I napped for three hours in the afternoon. Then we all went to Mt. Tabor to take a walk. It's a lovely place -- lots of trees and winding paths -- and is the only extinct volcano in a major metropolitan area. After Rachel went to sleep we managed to watch a movie, "Burn After Reading." Which, frankly, was a bit of a disappointment. I've seen better from Joel & Ethan Coen.
Sunday we had a late breakfast, then Drew & I walked to our errands (yet another reason I like where we live). We shopped for new juice glasses and picked up a framed black and white picture of me with Rachel from the local mall -- within walking/biking distance of our house! I can't wait to tell Rachel to walk to the mall instead of driving her everywhere! -- then walked home. I tried to go to bed early but still managed to wake up with a start at 3 a.m., expecting Rachel to start crying. (She has done this for the past week. Oh, how I miss sleeping through the night!) Instead, she kept us on our toes and woke at 4 a.m. Which meant I didn't get to sleep until 5, and then the alarm woke me at 6:45. So combined with the cough and cold I've developed, probably from Rachel, I'm feeling a tad run-down today.
But I still made it into work. I am terrified of using up all my sick days and not being able to take time off from work to take care of Rachel if she gets sent home from day care or, later, school. Which means that I'll be working when I'm sick for years to come.
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