Love

As Valentines Day came and went this year, I really thought about was love is.
It's a husband who takes care of your sick mom, takes her to the bus stop 3 days a week and feeds her two pugs. It's a husband who makes your lunch, your son's lunch and your mom's lunch (almost every morning). It's a husband who can make you laugh through your tears, who knows what to say most of the time to make you feel better, and even when he doesn't know what to say he comes up with something stupid or silly just to take your mind off of your "real" problem. It's a father who wants to go to Toys R Us to buy more train tracks for a train set because our son HAS to have all the trains connected and the train is so long that it falls off the short track. It's a husband who takes his wife and mother-in-law shopping at the Coach store. It's a father who buys a sled the day it snows and brings it home right away so Reid can go sledding for the first time. It's dad who makes up his own version of Hush Little Baby- one in which there is a motorcycle, four wheeler and Harley Davidson.

Hello again!

As I type this I am looking at the clock. I pick my mom up from the bus stop in 42 minutes. In the mean time I can "blog", clean the kitchen and/or get dinner started. Tonight we are having a dish I learned how to make from my dear friend Lisa, she made it for dinner while we were roommies in college- stove top one dish chiken bake. When I get home it is go, go, go- always something to do or someone to take care of. It is very rare that I have a free 15 minutes to do anything, and when I do have 15 minutes, I usually snuggle up with Reid in my lap and watch Cat in the Hat or play motorcycles with him. A few weeks ago I really upset an "acquaintance" because I did not respond to a voicemail right away- (to be honest- it did take me almost a week to get back to them) but in my defense I was and am BUSY. I was so mad at her for the attitude she gave me that I wanted to recite my schedule and explain to her that at the end of my day there are about 5 other people I need/want to call before I would even think about returning her call. Of course I did not do that, I just cried to Rudd that someone could be so rude to me without even knowing what I was going through and who couldn't give me the benefit of the doubt. It has reminded me that "you never know what is going on is someone's life" and maybe she was having a bad day too. It seemed like every night last week I was working or had an appointment to go to. This week looks just as busy- thank goodness Rudd is so good to me. He doesn't mind spending the evening having dinner with my mom!
My life has been hectic and busy lately, but lots of fun too. I just celebrated my 31st birthday- much easier than my 30th, I might add. I had my very first facial and cannot wait to go back for another. We are gearing up to celebrate Reid's 3rd, and I just know we are going to have a great time. We have invited some of his friends from "school". Reid is into Buzz Light Year and Woody, so of course we are having a Toy Story Party. We have cowboy party hats and bandannas for the kids to wear along with sherif badges.
My mom is doing so much better since she has been here, she might get to decrease her dialysis to only 2days a week, which means one less day of traveling on the transit bus all the way to LongBeach and back (two hours each way). She has us hooked on Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. For one hour every night, all four of us sit down together and shout out answers to the questions! My mom gets the seat closest to the TV so she can hear the questions- sometimes I have to read things to her because she can't see it on the TV, but we have lots of fun, even Reid shouts out an answer or two!