Thursday Feb 6, 2014

Yesterday T stayed home from school with a cough and today he has a fever and a cough so he is again at home.  They had Musical Desserts night at Central last night and J was in that in junior jazz band, advanced strings and his strings trio with J and S. It is again a bright sunny day and again cold out.  Minus 5 this morning.  Everybody has their puffy jackets on when they are heading to school this morning.
J has decided to stay home from school with T which is handy for me since I can then still go to my violin lesson. They are doing FSA testing part 5 at school today which he is excused from so I figured it would be ok if he wanted to stay home. He also has a cough so it's not completely out of left field to have him stay home. I feel slightly wrong about letting him stay home.
There is this video on youtube of a preschool age boy who is crying because of a song on radio but still wants the song to stay on even though it makes him sad.  And I watched it and it made me cry to see the boy cry which made me realize I miss my kid.  Even though it's all fine here at home, there is a piece missing to the picture, which is Eva, and it makes me more brittle.  So I am very happy that she is blogging lots about what she is doing.  I then have a picture in my head that I can place her into instead of it being like she has just gone to the moon or something.  And I realize I can let go of the little reminders in my head that go on regarding my kids.  "Don't forget to take ...." "You need your .... today, is it in your bag?" "Homework all done?" etc.  Well, I can shut that section off for Eva because she is not at home right now.
I have started knitting something new. A long vest for me out of the same wool that I used for the two girls sweaters.  I have a bunch of partial balls and some full ones so I am winging it as far as colour pattern goes.  It will have pockets though, the linings of which will be red.  The main thing is starting out brown.
 And I had a weird dream the other night where I was helping T's teacher have her baby even though it isn't actually due until June sometime.  And I was at her house which was very tidy.