I am slowly getting my groove back. This has been happening for a while but I haven’t wanted to jinx it too much. As far as I can tell, time has mostly done it. Sleep has helped; possibly upping my B vitamins helped. I have gained a bit of weight so I do wonder if there’s been a thyroid adjustment, but I will take happy and a little fatter over depressed and thinner. Although I will be addressing the weight issue over the next few months now that I can: breathe, laugh, and drag my ass to the pool.
I took two days off last week to make this a 5-day weekend. Thursday Noah and I had a mom-son outing to the CNE, low-stress style. (The CNE is pretty much a fair, but a whopping big one in the middle of Toronto, which preserves Exhibition Grounds.) I have videos to upload but in brief:
- we took the GO Train there which is always a score with my train-obsessed kid
- we were early enough that the petting zoo was not mobbed and we did that first; hilarity ensued
- the Lego room and music booth were hits. Because we do not have enough Lego at home (*cough*)
- Noah tried out the rides and loved. them. He didn’t need me on them (he did kiddy ones; at 40 inches he wasn’t allowed on anything too crazy). I was surprised; I didn’t think he would be going on those yet.
- we ate pierogies and cabbage rolls and of course, Tiny Tom doughnuts.
- the Farm exhibit was great fun and we watched the bees make honey
- we also hit the Firefighter and EMT areas and they were fun
- that was about it, and that was just fine with us; we came home a bit darker from sun, heavier from food, and laden with blueberry honey, fudge, and maple-roasted soy nuts as well as various stickers and one fingerpuppet won fair and square at a game
It was great. He’s so much fun.
Friday we cleaned in the morning and then went to the library and the pool. Then two COUSINS came, along with a grandma, and Noah was in bliss. I love the cousins and grandma too, so that was cool. Saturday we hung out and then one cousin and I hit the Danforth for lunch and shopping; the boys went swimming, and we all met up at the beach and ate pseudo-Chinese for dinner. Sunday the kids and Carl went a-comic-and-toy shopping and I saw Julie & Julia with grandma (for the second time, but I really like that movie – the Julia parts anyway).
Today cousins left, and Noah collapsed and had a three-hour nap. I roasted my first tomatillos ever (go CSA!) and made potato and bean enchiladas and also pasta al forno, so we have dinners for the week to heat up.
Then we had dinner at the nuclear reactor bay (I’m not really kidding; there’s a fabulous beach right by the Pickering power plant) and now Noah is having a bath to get the sand off.
Carl managed not to work the entire weekend and that in itself is like a holiday.
I am really very happy at the moment. I got my feet under myself enough to create fun, and so we did.
And I am working on my book again a tiny wee bit and tomorrow night is booked for that, if I can not fritter the time away.
It was a very good weekend.
