It’s funny to read back over last Sunday’s update.

1. “Back to normal!” Not so much. J was sick all week with a very high fever—we even took him to the ER Thursday night because the meds weren’t bringing it down much anymore and we were in day five of this and our oncall ped suggested an eval. But he was OK, and is well now. Maybe his immune system is just really unhurried or something.

2. The whole “two day retreat” thing. Yeah, that did not happen. But it was a gift to have cleared my calendar on those days because it meant less shuffling.

But make no mistake, I pulled a nutty or two this past week. The timing was just amazing. Monday was my day off, so we were all here, and then Tuesday was going to be our “get back to normal” day. The fever came on late Monday afternoon and I was like OMG WTH SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!? fdskls jkdhfbu vybeu ywba

I’m thankful to R for staying home with him one day so I could work, but working AND parenting nine days out of the last ten has almost driven me insane. R’s new job is actually more conducive to working from home than his previous one, but he’s still so new there (only a month), this was as it needed to be right now.

3. Last night R and I went to dinner and then to an open house at this theater. It was great fun. We really need to see more live theater.

4. C is doing well and having a good summer. She’s enjoying swim team and continues to improve her time bit by bit. She hasn’t done any Saturday meets, just the Wednesday ones, which suits us just fine, actually. She has started getting an allowance: $2.25 a week. The .25 is with the intention of her giving it to the church.

5. M seems really sharp to me right now. She has this stealth intelligence that picks up on everything and is making ever-more-complex arguments to try to get what she wants. She’s also very attentive to the chapter books we read with C. In addition to daycare this fall she will be in pre-K three days a week and I think that will be great fun for her.

6. Aside from his illness, J’s skin has never looked better. That points to his eczema being correlated to outside/airborne stuff, wethinks. But I am SO happy he is better. J’s default position is happy, and when something is wrong with my baby…

7. This should be a fun week. I’m not going to say things are back to normal. They will be what they will be. But tomorrow I’m signed up to attend this media training for faith leaders. Excited and nervous… should be a pretty intense day. Plus this week I start a six-week e-course in “Eyes of the Heart: Photography as Contemplative Practice”. My spiritual disciplines are pretty word-oriented so I’m excited to be doing something different.

1. I’ve been very quiet here this week because our daycare provider was on vacation, so I was doing some major juggling. Over the last week we’ve had lots of pool time, went to a state park, saw a puppet show yesterday, and watched a lot of movies while I’ve tried to work.

2. I actually would be OK as a stay-at-home mother. Some mothers who work outside the home say they’d go crazy. I don’t think I would. But being a stay-at-home mother WHILE being a working mother is THE PITS. So when I got an e-mail from our DCP on Friday I gave a little cheer. She’s home! Back to “normal” next week!

3. Also watched a lot of our denomination’s General Assembly last week. (Which was described by someone I know as “religion meets C-SPAN.”) I agreed with some things they did and didn’t agree with others. About average I’d say.

4. Went to see Date Night yesterday. Wish someone had told me the first half hour was a documentary… actually it was a great evening at the drafthouse with R. I could see Tina Fey and Steve Carrell doing some more stuff together. They are a great team, very well matched.

5. I self-scheduled a two-day retreat to do some church planning and vision stuff for the next year. That’ll be Wednesday and Thursday.

6. I feel a long way from the writing retreat.

7. I’m on twitter now, with some ambivalence.