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First Day of Spring

Posted by | March 20, 2015 | BAMBINOS | 4 Comments

IMG_7590.JPGI’m not going to sugar-coat it: we are knee-deep in a March mess. It is what it is. IMG_7586.JPGMeera has been home from school this whole week, unnervingly sick. After 2 trips to the doctor, attempts with 3 different antibiotics, and a string of sleepless nights, we finally seem to have it under control. But the whole ordeal has wreaked havoc on our fragile semi-semblance-of-order life. Chaos reigns now.

Much school make-up work will somehow need to get done. And Braydon and I look squarely at the question that is staring us in the face: how to recover from the boatloads of meetings, appointments, and classes missed and the projects and deadlines that fell through the cracks as we dropped many balls this week to take care of Meera. Always back to the same old story: the back-breaking-bind of the dual-career-couple with no extended family to rely upon. It is a topic I deeply hope that some brilliant PhD student somewhere is working on right now– the dissertation should be titled:  Dual Career Couples: Extended Family Support and Lack Thereof. If you are working on this, please be in touch– I want to help you in any and every way possible. If nobody out there is working on this– God help us all.IMG_7583.JPGWe are so over Winter 2015. It’s been a rough one and spring can’t come quick enough. As if to tease us with a cold cruel joke, it is snowing like crazy today, on the First Day of Spring. Lehigh’s campus should be bursting with blossoms very soon. But today we’re getting covered in a blanket of snow. IMG_7587.JPGWe’ve had barely a week this whole winter that hasn’t involved at least one school cancellation. And just because today’s the First Day of Spring 2015, it seems only right that this hellacious week is no different. School closed early because of snow. Of course, that impacted only one of our bambinos, since 2 out of 3 were home from school sick today. Yup, Kyle’s down for the count– joining Meera on the couch in the Sick House.IMG_7594.JPGPoor baby. Poor babies. So instead of anything that I’d typically cook on the First Day of Spring (I’m dreaming of steamed artichokes and fresh linguine with grated parmesan and a perfectly chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc on the picnic table outside), today I found myself making chicken noodle soup for the sick ones (which, incidentally, unfortunately, as of last night, includes me). Ugh.IMG_7589.JPGBetween the time I started making the soup, and when it was done, the campus went from looking like the slightly snowy photo above, to looking like the ridiculously snowy photo below (taken just now from our apartment’s back window).IMG_7591.JPGOutside it is snowing hard. Inside we are trying hard to distract ourselves with this new game I bought to help us usher in Easter– Don’t Topple The Bunnies. You build this very fragile tower with these odd looking rabbits, then you carefully try to keep it all standing while certain key pieces holding the tower in place are removed from position. See?! It’s a metaphor for our life!!! Happy First Day of Spring!IMG_7596.JPGP.S. I just finished watching a movie with the kids on this snowy sick afternoon– Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It was awesome and perfect for the moment we’re in — I highly recommend it if you’re in the market for a feel-good-laugh-cry family movie!!!

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