Just me and the girls

It’s just me and the girls today. Phil and my Dad traded a work day so he took Sawyer over to their place early this morning to help them make on a new woodfire oven. I am SO glad that they went before Sissy woke up. She would have been absolutely devastated to watch Dad and Sawyer drive off without her. I know that the kids need to learn to deal with disappointments but being left behind is such a hard one! Sigh, they only left 10 minutes ago and I am lonely already.

With company coming and a birthday weekend, I have a lot to do. I should be able to get a lot done today with only two children to care for. Sawyer and Sissy are great friends but the majority of their training involves getting along together – respecting boundaries, sharing, controlling emotions easily stirred up by each other, etc. When they are alone (as rare as it is), they experience a little more independence. Sawyer can play on his own and enjoys not being interrupted but poor Sissy wanders around like a lost puppy. She will be my little helper today. She loves to help me with whatever I am doing. Future Mommy in training!!!

In other news, I have a hurt neck! I don’t know what I did to it but it got increasingly tight and painful until one morning I woke up and had no range of motion and was in so much pain that I called for an emergency chiropractor appointment. My muscles were so tense that they gave me electric shock therapy! They hooked up those sticky electrode things to my skin and alternated little shocks to my muscles. It was really weird. It didn’t hurt but my muscles would twitch involuntarily with each shock. This loosed things up enough to be able to have an adjustment. I was in a lot of pain the rest of the day but it is starting to feel a bit better.

Well, the day is calling me so I better make my list of things to do and get started.

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