Knowing that we are going in to be inducted first thing tomorrow morning I decided there were a variety of things that needed to be done today and a few things that I really wanted to get done.
This morning the three of us went out to breakfast together – for pancakes at ouf favorite little local diner. Its something that Dom and I used to do frequently together before Mimmo came along and its something that the three of us have done together something like weekly since he arrived. Today was strange, knowing it would be the last time that it was just the three of us going out together. By the next time we go we’ll be 4.
When we got home we did a variety of the usual things and I worked hard on my “to do” list – things like making sure the laundry is all done – washed, dried, folded and put away and empty hampers and baskets; like toping off the waterer and feeder in the chicken coop; like making sure there were diapers and wipes for both children stocked near the changing table. I wanted to be sure that anything that really needed to be done had been . . . after lunch (homemade pizza – YUM!) and a short nap while watching Peter Pan, the little guy went off with Nonna for a bit and while Dom got ready for work – one last shift before he’s out for the next 10 days – I left for a final bit of down time.
I got in the car and drove away from reality, responsibility for a couple of hours. I went to the Barnes and Noble down the road, got an iced tea/lemonade drink and picked out a stack of knitting books to browse through. I found a comfy chair and just sat leafing through the books and enjoying the peace and quiet of being able to sit for that long and basically do nothing.
I even got a special treat for myself – a copy of “A fine fleece” which I’ve been eyeing since someone brought a copy to knitting one night. I don’t really buy many knitting books anymore, partly because I have so many already, partly because of a tightening budget and partly because, truth-be-told there haven’t been all that many that interest me lately. This book I had to have. Its the first “pattern book” I’ve seen come out in a long while that had many patterns I feel I would actually knit. I think, over time, its possible I would knit more than half of the patterns in this book, and that doesn’t happen often.
When I came home after my little break I got to do a bunch of fun things like sweeping, moping and vaccuming, more laundry, making beds up with clean sheets and picking up seemingly endless toys. Now the house is clean. . . or at least as clean as its going to get before the baby arrives. There is no laundry in the hamper, all the floors are clean and the dishes and kitchen are cleaned up. It will be interesting to see if the others can manage to keep it that way over the next ten days or so.
These are our kids, the left is Caterina at one day old and the right is Mimmo at 3 days old. These pics were taken almost 3 years apart!
