Crazy Wednesdays

This morning started out gently and a little slow…as slow as it can with my beautiful son, Liam at 3 ½, a cup of pumpkin spice coffee (which I love), and the relief that I don’t have to be at work until 1:30 p.m. I had set myself up nicely last night as I made Liam’s lunch after doing dishes and prepared the coffee pot (then the morning can be dedicated to more play time with Liam at a more relaxed pace. We read and discussed a book of trains that Holly gave him for Christmas for quite a while and hung around the house before dashing off to school.

At school I told his fabulous teacher, Ms. Wanda, that I needed to speak to her. I went to Jessica’s house to see her, since I hadn’t since early December. Of course, her friend was there and the conversation only revolved around child-rearing, as it only can with stay-at-home moms. Not to sound judgmental, but it would be so nice if women could not lose all sense of themselves or personal identification did not revolve around their children – it’s always about behavior, breast-feeding, the best schools….blah blah blah.

This was enough to drive me right into the gym. On the way there I called Ms. Wanda. And while I was a bit anxious about being dismissed in my discussion of Liam’s classmate being a bully and saying bad words and the child being another teacher’s son, the conversation went far better than expected. I will have to remember to follow up with her in the next couple of days.

At the gym, I made an appointment with Kenny the trainer for next Weds. I need to seriously gain some muscle weight and get into shape. I worked out not too hard but hard enough. Feeling good I left the gym out of breath. I went home and juiced all my veggies, ate quickly, showered, and went to work. I was pooped by the time I got there, too much emotional drama and physical strain made me want to crawl into bed for a long nap instead of doing library stuff.

At the library (being the Academic Librarian for Everglades University), I had a lot to do. Sending emails to faculty in effort, as always, to market library services to faculty and their students. Did lab hours, blog entry, last month’s reports (3 of them), and lab hours where I got to see faculty after the new year (more marketing). It was the first night of classes and the school was quite busy and loud, it was nice for a change. At the end of the night though, I hate to admit that I puttered out and read my Kindle for a half an hour before going home.

Back home, at 10:20 p.m., Liam was still awake, so it was nice to see him, if only for a moment. I had a quick dinner and shower before sliding into my warm bed with tons of blankets and a heat pad. Dreading the morning, which will come all too quickly, where it starts all over again. Thursday mornings are the hardest. Back to work too soon, makes me tired and I miss Liam terribly.