Rose and Me

At home together.

We’re still getting used to our time together while Jay is away at school all day.

Sometimes we go out…

Costco pizza is huge.

 

I got my hair cut last week, and Rose sat patiently at the salon, flipping through Good Housekeeping magazine (the only one in the salon’s collection that seemed acceptable for a 3 year old) and drawing with crayons on her “twip-boad” (clipboard).

Mostly we stay home.

We eat plenty of snacks.

Rose cranks out the multi-colored scribbles.

I try to convince her that we can only hang up a few of them on our fancy new pinned-up twine strings in the kitchen. Rose really likes hanging up her artwork.

Rose also rather enjoys taking selfies. Her eyelashes!

We talk about baby Amber and daydream a little. A while ago, the maternity store gave me a gift card for a Carseat Canopy, so I ordered one and it came this week. 

Rose plays. She told me that this is a family: the baby, with her pink Bunny as the mom, Jay’s Monkey-Kid as the dad, orange bunny as the sister, and the little white monkey as the brother.

I do my best to keep up with the dishes and the laundry. This week I even vacuumed the upstairs! It was exhausting. Two days later I still haven’t made it to the basement, although the vacuum is waiting hopefully at the top of the stairs.

Rose reads stacks of books to herself. Sometimes she asks me to read to her, but lots of the time she likes to gather a big stack and look through the entire pile, one book and one page at a time.

We miss Jay. The other day I realized that we can actually SEE his school from our house. This is the view from our back porch, fully zoomed out, half zoomed in, and all the way zoomed in. That white water tower in the middle is a useful point of reference. Jay’s school is the building right behind the bleachers—that tan triangle is the roof. For some reason it’s a comfort to live close to the school.

More armchair selfies. We do plenty of snuggling.

It’s a calm existence. We’re ok with it while it lasts…

[7 more weeks]