Oddness

The kids were at grandma's this weekend. We had no plans to go anywhere or to capitalize on this; we puttered around the house. (I put in a cameo at cooks collegium).

Saturday night, we had our feet up, watching TV (which I hardly do anymore) and it was weird. We both thought it was weird.

It was too quiet. It was too calm. There was no chaos. There was no sense of frantic activity in the background. There was no "kid schedules" to juggle around. 36 hrs of kid-free time and I spent most of it hyper aware that they were not there because part of my attention is always on them no matter where they are in the house.

While watching TV we both kept commenting that it was weird. Was this what it was like before we had kids? Neither of us were sure; we can't remember. Is this how people without kids live? Their time is their own and not over-scheduled? It was scary. I could feel my batteries recharing to full charge and my impulse to pull out my calendar to start scheduling activities grew very strong... We were just glad to have them back today. The chaos and energy levels are back to "Kid-tastic".

cell phone number

My cell phone went on walk-about Friday. Hopefully it will come home.

In the meantime, it's been deactiviated and replaced (whee! free upgrade since it's been so long ... why did it get bigger? harder to lose?). And I don't have anyone's cell phone numbers. Did I have your cell phone number? If you have me and you want me to have you, shoot me a text or give me a call and I'll rebuild my phone book. Otherwise, don't be surprised if you think you should hear from me and you don't.

(Co-worker L just mocked me tremendously for not downloading my cell phone book. C'mon! I'm an old-school hammer-wrench engineer, not a techie. As if I even knew you could do that. hmph.)