mondays

well it's been a week since a post. lots going on here, or maybe not going on is a better way to look at it. the economy seems to be crashing down on us right now. things have dried up at work, and we're scrambling to figure out how to keep things afloat. i was really stressed at first, but then realized that years of miserliness will make this all ok. in my worst case scenario, i stay at home with evie for a year while we wait for the economy to improve. when i think about it that way, it doesn't seem so bad.

truthfully, though, it is still hard for me to imagine staying at home. i think i'm going to keep my fingers crossed that things pick up at work.

all that said, my girl and some gorgeous weather was the perfect antidote for the stress. we had a fun weekend starting with a fun day at the playground with her friends on friday. her friend marlon came over on friday night to play with us while his parents went out for an evening. we're finally going to get the whole babysitting swapping going, and friday was our first go. the kids had a great time playing together until bedtime. evie went down like a champ with mike - marlon was a bit more of a challenge for me. everything was going pretty well until i sang him a song that had the word "mama" in it. he heard that and his lips started to quiver and a tear rolled down his cheek as he said "mama und papa". i ended up holding him until he fell asleep. not too bad. and i look forward to our night out.

the rest of the weekend was more fun with evie. we hung out. we read. we sang. we went to a birthday party and did painting and decorated butterfly wings. it was all really nice. so going back to the gloom of work made this even more of a monday than usual. i came home from work starting to feel a little down again.

evie fixed that.

after dinner she overturned the drum we got her for christmas and started pretending that it was a pot and she was cooking. she kept stirring and adding salt. then i helped her add more stuff to the pot - including an awful lot of "sausage". as we stirred and smiled all of my worries just disappeared for a while. it must be magic soup that she made.