Week 2

Week 2 without a Nanny, that is, if you count the week she was out "sick." We had a phone interview today, and face-to-face Thursday, and a couple other potential phone interviews this week, so I'm feeling better about our place.

It is amazing the number of people who will respond to an ad for a Nanny for newborn triplets who aren't comfortable caring for more than 2 kids. Are you not reading the ad? It's triplets. Are you now comfortable but haven't updated your online profile? What?

It also happens to be week 2 of the Push-Up Challenge. Day 1 went pretty well, considering I did the push ups at 10:30 p.m. It's a ladder like set up, where you do a small number, rest, do a larger number, rest, then do two more sets of a middling number, rest, and do a max. I couldn't do the max all the way, but still.

And somehow, I'm actually getting stuff done at work. Luckily we are slow during this time.

A message to my sons, and daughter

There are two things that I've learned in life that I think are incredibly poignant and true and that I hope to impart on my kids. I wish I could claim to have arrived at them on my own, but the one I read in the Bible; and while I'm not sure where I picked the other up at, I know its origin isn't with me.

So here we go:

1) There is a difference between being frugal and being stingy. Know the difference. A frugal person eats Ramen at home and skips the dinner at the swanky Ramon's Restuarant. A stingy person orders the surf & turf at Ramon's and then wants to split the bill equally among all the diners

2) You should never be shy about what you like, but you should never under any circumstances be finicky. Find that drink, or meal or entertainment you like and make it your signature; but you should never put off if it isn't available. "Real men (and women) are discerning, but they're not disabled if things are not just so."

I hope you three realize them earlier in life than I did.

1000 & 1 Things - almost literally

That's what it feels like, anyway.

There is so much to do at this point. I won't bore you with the entire list, but here's a representative samep of the interesting stuff:

- I'm editing-reading my sister's novel,
- keeping in mind that mine has to be done, probably before the triplets
- gathering baby stuff for the triplets,
- caring for R. who is doing well but is exhausted and starting to get large and who needs to rest as much as possible,
- checking into day cares,
- investigating Nannies who might come to the house
- finishing the bedroom (it's essentially done, though not yet furnished)
- financial planning, which is always busy this time of year but more so with triplets
- playing 2 hours or so of Fallout: New Vegas per day
- walking the dog
- general house stuff
- reading about Buddhism, which I'm really enjoying and might have a post on shortly

All that said, I realize I haven't posted here in almost a month. I've considered creating a triplets website to document our journey. The reality is that once the triplets are here, I probably won't have time for both, so I'm not sure. I'd like to keep one alive to document what I'm doing, keep in touch with certain people and have a place where I can have a dialogue with myself, but who knows.