I am very excited to announce a breakthrough in my career-oriented endeavors. The editor of a local arts magazine replied today to my suggestion to him that I could volunteer as a proofreader. It feels like I've been trying to get started in this direction for a long time. It's a relief to have something definite to show for my efforts.
In other news, this past weekend I went tubing with the youth of our stake. We drove for more than an hour to this place, which was near a city named Cherokee. I was interested to see what would be in the city of Cherokee, since I possibly have ancestors from that tribe of Native Americans. Unfortunately, and I should have seen this coming, the biggest attraction in Cherokee was the casino. That was a bit sad.
But I did get a chuckle from the motel across the street from the casino. The hotel's marquee said, "Can walk to the casino", or something like that. The sign was literally 30 feet from the casino, which was about 20 stories high and had the word "CASINO" written in huge letters across the front. " I think that hotel needs to do some marketing research.
The other really different thing I noticed about Cherokee was the crosswalks. On a stretch of very tourist-y road about 400 feet long were about 10 crosswalks spaced about 15 feet apart. I could not understand what necessity drove the city to put that many crosswalks on that street. Any ideas anyone?
Oh, and as for the tubing, that was fun. My tube, naturally, was the only one that went flat. And the water level in the creek wasn't very high, so on top of having a slow leak, I kept hitting rocks and further flattening my tube. It was fun, though. It was doubly fun because I was there by myself, sans husband, sans baby. They spent the day together, apparently successfully, because when I came home everybody was happy and there was no permanent damage done to either the house or the baby. It was a rare occasion for Jon to spend the day alone with Adara, and he did great. I think I'll have to leave the two of them alone together more often now . . .
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Congratulations!! That's great. I'm sure that your career will just skyrocket from here.
And it is a thrill and anxiety to leave baby with husband, but I suspect that all such endeavors usually end up better than we mommies anticipate.
I am clapping. You just can't hear me because it's a long way to Scotland.
Go you!
This is the kind of thing I e-mailed you about months ago. It's not that you needed to do MORE; it's that you have needed to find Mary again because she was getting absorbed completely by wifemommy. Wifemommy, of course, is a role, not a person. There is nothing wrong with the wifemommy role unless it sucks the life out of the person filling that role.
And I think it's good for both daddy and baby to have some together time. Daddies need to be parents and mommies need to be people.
Keep up the good work.
Daddy-child days are the best thing ever invented. It feels great to be able to do something, even if it is just grocery shopping, by yourself occasionally. In my opinion it can't happen often enough. Congrats on your new opportunity, I hope you enjoy it!
Thank you everyone. I appreciate your support. I'm still waiting on something from the magazine that I can actually work on. I'm starting to get a little worried. . .
That sounds like a great opportunity! If there gets to be too much work for you feel free to offer my services as well. LOL!
I agree about Daddy/Baby days...let him work up his skills. They need more bonding time and you need Mary time. :)
Kicker - thanks for the offer to help! You meant with the magazine, right? Not with the baby? *sigh*
I think they must have put the crosswalks there to avoid needing to give citations for jay-walking. Either that or they got a lot of law suits from pedestrians who had been hit so they put the crosswalks in to make the drivers stop when some moron started crossing in the middle of the block.
I know, I know, this was over a year ago, but I'm catching up on reading blogs...
This post makes me wonder how life will be when Sam and I have kids. He only works 14 days a month (84 hours), so I'll have plenty of opportunity to leave our first born home with him from the start. I wonder if I'll do it...
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