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Downs

I haven’t been feeling good this last week. No sick symptoms yet but it seems like I’m always tired even if I get plenty of sleep.

Ups

Interviewed a potential babysitter for Calvin this morning who seemed pretty nice. Jaeger likes to go on “expeditions” throughout the summer to relax. This is a useful thing to do but is inconvenient for me as it doesn’t allow time for me to relax without Calvin. I’m hoping to hire a babysitter on Sunday mornings while I work in the basement. Then I won’t go to work on Monday but still drop Calvin off at daycare so I have a couple of hours to myself to do important and/or relaxing things. I’m hoping to have someone lined up in the next week or two. I think my biggest challenge will be using the free time to actually relax instead of running mundane errands.

Calvin Moment

Calvin most recent obsession is trying on mommy’s and daddy’s shoes. He’ll bring a shoe over to us and hold it insistently until we put it on his foot.

In other Calvin related news, this weekend we kicked-off his potty training. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I had hoped. He doesn’t seem to understand cause and effect yet and has no idea why we’d want him to sit on the potty. However, it took him a lot of practice before he picked up any other skill so I’m trying to relax and just give him lots of opportunities to figure out potty training.

Simplification

Last week was a weird week and I didn’t have time to do my normal household tasks. So, I cleaned the bathroom this evening instead of trying to get rid of anything.

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