Downs

• After Thursday, I was feeling iffy and Jaeger became downright sick. It’s not fun to look after a toddler when you just want to curl up in a little ball and sleep.
• I’m trying to dramatically trim down my grocery expenditures this month because I’m drastically over budget for the year. I bought conventional products instead of organic for most of my purchases this week and tried to cut down the number of splurges I purchased. In spite of this, I still spent $70 this week.

Ups

• Fortunately, by Saturday I was feeling a little better. I had to play the piano for church which was a little nerve wracking since due to the sickness I hadn’t practiced much (though it seems like there’s always a reason I didn’t practice as much as I should these days). “Grandma” Judi took care of Calvin during church and he seemed pretty happy with this arrangement though he was still ecstatic when I came to pick him up.
• Both Jaeger and I are mostly back to normal today. I went to bed early so even though Calvin woke up multiple times in the night I was fairly rested in the morning.

Calvin Moment

• This evening Calvin was in his high chair eating while I looked for my This Can’t be Tofu! recipe book. It was hiding from me so I started chanting, “Here Tofu! Here Tofu!” like I was trying to convince a cat to come out of hiding. Calvin immediately echoed the chant with his own version, “ere toto! ere toto!” At Calvin’s last appointment the doctor warned me that I needed to start being careful of what came out of my mouth because Calvin would soon be repeating everything. I guess we’ve entered that stage in life.

Simplification

• I’ve been weeding out a lot of our physical stuff recently. In the next couple of years we’d either like to move closer to Boulder or out to The Promised Land (i.e. Western Washington State). This implies that we have to a) sell our current house and b) pack everything we own. We’ve lived in our house approximately six years now and it’s horrifying the amount of extra stuff we’ve accumulated. It’s time to purge.