Day 144..........Jen babysat at our place.
3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.
Yesterday morning, whilst I was sitting in Tim Hortons across town, waiting for Ali, who was doing her drama class (I repeat some things in case you're one of the folk who dips in and out of the blogs and din't read yeaterdays-lol) Jen was babysitting for wee Noah, who must be five months old now. He's the little guy, who made an early appearance, just after we got here in August. he must have been around for around the same number of days as this Blog. I will have to check with his mum, to check his date of birth.
It was Jens first time, on her own, with such a youngster but she rose magnificently to the occasion. She could be a mother herself and Alison was asking how we know what to do, when we become a mother? I basically told her that we 'wing-it' in much the same way that Jen did yesterday. She knew that she was capable of looking after the little guy and she just had to work out the specifics by herself.......as parents do. It was only for three hours, yesterday and she found that simply holding him and chatting with him was the best thing to do. How great is it that she was comfortable enough to multitask with him in her arms, whilst knowing that he was an important little person who she wanted to make feel safe and happy. Gold Star Jen and I can actually wait to see her in action with her own kids some day but I do look forward to seeing the great job she will do.
Ali was joined by five classmates yesterday who arrived pretty close to start-time. She was not as bubbly afterwards as last week but still really enjoyed it. She was trying not to compare feedback from the two weeks where one is great and the other lacking in quantity. We can get into trouble if we make comparisons like that because you can never really know why a person does or says what they do and it's best just to take the situation at face value. Fantastic feedback. Not a lot of feedback either positive or negative. If we start to worry about why there was no feedback (was I good, was I bad?) then it will spoil the rest of our day and out peace-of-mind.
Next week, they are going to be acting a scene from Titanic and so I can see the movie in my future, this week. It's three and a half hours long otherwise we would have watched it last night. Instead we watched 'A series of Unfornutate events' which was fab and made me remember how magnificent Mr Jim Carey is.
I wasn't on FB much yesterday, in case anyone was concerned. Sunday seems to have taken on the position of being our day for being out.
Ali and I came home, had lunch and then we all went to the Mall. Girls went off to browse the shops and I did my usual grocery shop. Jen got a bargain grey hoodie for $6. She had wanted one for Christmas but hadn't found one so when I saw one, on a doorway rail, I sent her a text to check it out. It said 50% off on the rail but she must have got nearer 75% off.
Sunday is definitely not the best day to shop for groceries because the shelves have big gaps...a bit like at Christmas. But, I make do and it simply meant a trip down to our local No Frills whilst Ali made dinner. Jen and I ran for the bus going and we an for the bus coming home. The whole trip only took twenty six minutes.
Last night was the first in many that I ddn't pour myself a glass of wine. I had three glasses on Saturday night and was aware that I was not 100% yesterday morning. I have been having one or two glasses most evenings and it doesn't seem to make any difference to how I feel in the morning. I am hopeful that my knitting needles will replace the glass of wine-lol.
Okay, Monday morning and I better get ready to go up to see Ross. I wonder how my wee lady will be today?
Happy Monday Folks.
Lxx
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