Life with Boose and Finch

We had a crazy busy last couple of weeks. Ro was starting to get kind of clingy and the week before Thanksgiving.  He told me that he really didn't want to go to school or daycare.  I told him that if he was good, he didn't have to go to daycare for the rest of the week.  My mom and stepdad then visited starting on Wednesday and drove Ro to my sister Ev and brother-in-law Ricardo's house that Friday.  It was a fairly uneventful visit, which means it must have been a good visit.   Things are still awkward to hang out with them because we still have to b-s- things to talk about together.  I'm not sure why this is.  Maybe it's because they have a more idealized memory about what it was like to raise kids -- so we don't really know how to talk about raising kids together because in their minds Ro is always acting out instead of just being a kid.  One of the days they were visiting, they said they took Ro to the park four times in one day...

I admit, it's been awhile since I last posted here.  I haven't really been feeling well lately and have been fighting depression. I know what has been bringing this on.  I've been overworked at work, and I don't feel very productive anymore.  At home, I'm just going through the motions of existing.  Sometimes, I can manage to get the laundry folded up, clean all of the dishes in the sink, and get most of the stuff picked up from the floor.  If I'm super lucky, I can also manage to sweep up all of the random dirt that is no longer trapped in the carpet we used to have from our laminate flooring.  But I'm just going to need to repeat these actions in the next few days.  I'm finding myself more often hiding from life by playing cell phone games.  Reading at least feels productive. I have a feeling that most of this comes down to it being a year since my car accident.  I still don't want to talk about it, but I'll try to make this a more prod...

Ro's birthday turned out great!  We invited all of the kids in his daycare class and dropped off a few invitations at his preschool.  We also invited a friend of ours who brought four out of five of her own kids to hang out, too.  The only family members who arrived were my sister, B's grandfather, and B's aunt, but that was okay because it gave us a lot of time to talk to the other parents.  I even managed to exchange phone numbers with another mom to maybe have some playdates! Unfortunately, we've been pretty busy every weekend since so I've been dropping that ball.  I am pretty excited about that prospect though because then there's a good chance that Ro will have lifelong friends from his diaper ages.  I enjoy time with all of my friends, but I've found that those are pretty special. After waking up, B left to go biking for the morning and we started the day off with a Starbucks breakfast.  Ro loves getting an everything bagel with cream cheese w...