The Next Best Thing

Well, it's Sunday night and I'm sipping the last Diet Dr. Pepper I can find in the fridge, and I'm 15 pages from finishing the next Cather novel for class. 

It has been a good weekend.  If you subtract the homework, the errands, the chores and the stress about Lucy, it would have been the perfect weekend.  But I'll settle for the next best thing.

Lucifer is on the mend!  Blockage gone - fluids done - back to normal!  G and I have slept the sleep of the dead this weekend and I think we'll pull through.

I am thankful for my little family.

Back in business with her buddy.

G has a photo app on his phone that creates comic book looking pictures.  This one is from our forced slumber party in the living room with Lucy - during the 45 minute chunks of time we were able to sleep.  On the furniture.  With the light on.  In case you're wondering, yes, I am sleeping on ottomans shoved together in front of the loveseat.

Gone are the days of road trips with Orca, but this one is coming along, begrudgingly.  One of these days, Lucy.  One of these days.

Two of my favorite things...(no, he's not resting the cup on her head, it just looks like that).

In between tutoring prep for the week and bonding with Willa, I darted out of the house for a sushi date with one of my K-8 school peeps.  It has been way. too. long. since I've had sushi and it was time. Hot night roll!  Spicy tuna and jalapenos are my culinary lovers!  It was divine!  G avoided me the rest of the night on principle.  He retreated to his X Box and I retreated to Willa.

We shared this plate but I could have easily downed the entire thing on my own.  In the bottom pic you can see the golden mussels in the background.  It was so good there are no words.

What else?  I didn't quite reach all my April goals and here we are almost in May.  But that's OK.  I finally got myself back into a church; started exercising semi-sort-of-almost-regularly; started on yard word with G (posts to come!); got out and explored (Nebraska!); registered for summer and fall; complete with ordered books; and procrastination on my final research paper is in full swing. 

Only 5 more weeks of work at the K-8 school and then it's 24/7 sleep for this girl (reference comic book picture up above).  Then the fall semester will start and all academic hell will break loose.

Here's to Monday morning!  Hold on while I fill up the Keurig...