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From The Ether
Hello my friends. Are you still there? Are you checking in religiously and cursing my name for having posted NOTHING in two months? (Ahem, Anna...)
I know.
I suck.
Or maybe you aren't even bothering to read anymore in which case you are missing my self-deprecating confession of sins.
Does that make sense? Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. Be glad that I'm writing at all, mmmkay? Linguistic feasibility aside.
So...
Where in the world are The Ducks??
As of this week, that question, though still loaded, got a teeny, tiny bit easier to answer. The Ducks are officially back in their home in Vienna, VA. That's right. We have a home, complete with our possessions. To some, this is every day...for us, this is a special special thing. For the last month or so, we've been living in the utter chaos. Here's a little description of how things have gone...
May 16 - Erin packs up as many of her worldly possessions as possible and moves into a lovely hotel room near Dulles International Airport in Virginia. There she stays for one week while waiting to make the transition to living with some very giving friends in "A Land Far Far Away" (or, as it is more commonly known, Gainesville, VA).
May 19 - Kayla, who has been spending some quality alone time with Daddy in Hoboken, gets picked up and transported down to Williamsburg, VA, courtesy of the Grandma/Grandpa Spatz shuttle. There she will stay for the next 3 1/2 weeks while her parents try to figure out how the heck all this is going to work.
May 20-22 - Erin rushes down to Williamsburg to see her much missed daughter. The trip is sweet, but far too short and Erin bawls her eyes out on the drive back to DC.
May 23 - Erin starts her new position in DC (STRRRRESSSSS) and moves in with the Gainesville Friends. She now has a FANTASTIC 1+ hour commute.
May 27-30 - Erin and Chris (who is still up in The Hoboken working) both rush back to Williamsburg to see the Snuzz. They get to spend a long weekend there, which is a Godsend. Erin bawls like a baby on the way back to DC (are you seeing a pattern?)
June 3-5 - Erin rushes back down to Williamsburg for another visit. It's decided that Kayla should stay in Williamsburg through June 12th. Erin bawls the whole way back to DC, but knows it's the right decision - time to pack, time to arrange, time to get ready for the move-in on the 13th, less chance of traumatizing the baby by moving her between three different places in the span of one week...The last week is incredibly lonely and painful all the same.
June 12 - Kayla finally arrives in DC and she, Mommy and a visiting Aunt K spend one more night in Gainesville.
June 13 - Kayla has her first day of "school", although she only goes for a trial two hours. Aunt K and Mommy then get all our stuff packed out of the Gainesville house and unpacked into our new Vienna home. Kayla gets to sleep in her new room. Daddy arrives late that night, after having spent the day with the packers in Hoboken. He and Mommy spend a super uncomfortable night on a blow-up mattress while Aunt K sleeps on a futon in the basement.
June 14 - Mommy has to go to work, so Daddy and Aunt K handle meeting the movers when they arrive in VA. The house gets filled top to bottom with boxes and furniture...it is a mess. Kayla spends four hours at daycare. When she gets to daycare, she gets down, starts to play...but when Mommy says goodbye, Kayla starts to sob runs for Mommy's legs. Mommy sobs her way to work.
June 15 - Kayla goes to daycare for a full day! She gets quiet as soon as we walk into the building. As soon as I try to set her down, she starts to sob and clings to me as though I were a cliff edge and she was about to fall. I sob my way to work yet again. Aunt K and Chris head back up to NYC and Mommy and Kayla spend their first night alone in the mostly unpacked, totally disastrous house.
June 16 and 17 - Mommy and Kayla repeat the pattern of Kayla sobbing when Mommy drops her off and Mommy sobbing her way to work. Mommy thinks her heart might break.
And so on and so forth...Daddy came back down for the weekend through Tuesday night, which was AWESOME. Kayla and Mommy miss him so much and having the family separated for this long is really really really getting old.
The daycare thing...the mornings last week were horrible. Kayla sobbed, I sobbed...It was truly the worst feeling in the world to "abandon" her there every day. That said, when I would come to pick her up, she was always CLEARLY having fun. She would be playing, laughing and they would swear that within 5 minutes of me leaving in the morning, she was fine. It didn't make it easier. But the nights...oh the nights were so wonderful. I would go to pick Kayla up and she would spot me from across the room, burst into a beaming smile that made the sun seem dim, would run at me, throw herself into my arms and hug and hug and hug. She was in the BEST mood every night. No matter how little she'd slept at daycare, she was an angel at night. We would lie in the rocking chair together, singing, reading and cuddling...those moments took my breath away and I have never been more glad to have free minutes with that little person.
This week daycare has gone MUCH better. Monday she got down willingly and ran off to play - I think she'd honestly forgotten the previous week's trauma. She did bawl when I left, but I heard it end before I'd reached the front door. Tuesday - she didn't want to get down, but she cried for an even shorter amount of time and today...today she barely cried at all and I could have cheered. I have now driven to work three days in a row without crying. I mean not one tear. There is hope!
Anyway, life is still chaos, but we're starting to sort of settle in. Chris is still back and forth to NYC...Kayla is still figuring out daycare...I'm still figuring out how to work full-time and get dinner on the table...but we're getting there!!
Hang in with me...I may not be great about updating in the coming weeks, but I'll try!! Wait for me!
I know.
I suck.
Or maybe you aren't even bothering to read anymore in which case you are missing my self-deprecating confession of sins.
Does that make sense? Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. Be glad that I'm writing at all, mmmkay? Linguistic feasibility aside.
So...
Where in the world are The Ducks??
As of this week, that question, though still loaded, got a teeny, tiny bit easier to answer. The Ducks are officially back in their home in Vienna, VA. That's right. We have a home, complete with our possessions. To some, this is every day...for us, this is a special special thing. For the last month or so, we've been living in the utter chaos. Here's a little description of how things have gone...
May 16 - Erin packs up as many of her worldly possessions as possible and moves into a lovely hotel room near Dulles International Airport in Virginia. There she stays for one week while waiting to make the transition to living with some very giving friends in "A Land Far Far Away" (or, as it is more commonly known, Gainesville, VA).
May 19 - Kayla, who has been spending some quality alone time with Daddy in Hoboken, gets picked up and transported down to Williamsburg, VA, courtesy of the Grandma/Grandpa Spatz shuttle. There she will stay for the next 3 1/2 weeks while her parents try to figure out how the heck all this is going to work.
May 20-22 - Erin rushes down to Williamsburg to see her much missed daughter. The trip is sweet, but far too short and Erin bawls her eyes out on the drive back to DC.
May 23 - Erin starts her new position in DC (STRRRRESSSSS) and moves in with the Gainesville Friends. She now has a FANTASTIC 1+ hour commute.
May 27-30 - Erin and Chris (who is still up in The Hoboken working) both rush back to Williamsburg to see the Snuzz. They get to spend a long weekend there, which is a Godsend. Erin bawls like a baby on the way back to DC (are you seeing a pattern?)
June 3-5 - Erin rushes back down to Williamsburg for another visit. It's decided that Kayla should stay in Williamsburg through June 12th. Erin bawls the whole way back to DC, but knows it's the right decision - time to pack, time to arrange, time to get ready for the move-in on the 13th, less chance of traumatizing the baby by moving her between three different places in the span of one week...The last week is incredibly lonely and painful all the same.
June 12 - Kayla finally arrives in DC and she, Mommy and a visiting Aunt K spend one more night in Gainesville.
June 13 - Kayla has her first day of "school", although she only goes for a trial two hours. Aunt K and Mommy then get all our stuff packed out of the Gainesville house and unpacked into our new Vienna home. Kayla gets to sleep in her new room. Daddy arrives late that night, after having spent the day with the packers in Hoboken. He and Mommy spend a super uncomfortable night on a blow-up mattress while Aunt K sleeps on a futon in the basement.
June 14 - Mommy has to go to work, so Daddy and Aunt K handle meeting the movers when they arrive in VA. The house gets filled top to bottom with boxes and furniture...it is a mess. Kayla spends four hours at daycare. When she gets to daycare, she gets down, starts to play...but when Mommy says goodbye, Kayla starts to sob runs for Mommy's legs. Mommy sobs her way to work.
June 15 - Kayla goes to daycare for a full day! She gets quiet as soon as we walk into the building. As soon as I try to set her down, she starts to sob and clings to me as though I were a cliff edge and she was about to fall. I sob my way to work yet again. Aunt K and Chris head back up to NYC and Mommy and Kayla spend their first night alone in the mostly unpacked, totally disastrous house.
June 16 and 17 - Mommy and Kayla repeat the pattern of Kayla sobbing when Mommy drops her off and Mommy sobbing her way to work. Mommy thinks her heart might break.
And so on and so forth...Daddy came back down for the weekend through Tuesday night, which was AWESOME. Kayla and Mommy miss him so much and having the family separated for this long is really really really getting old.
The daycare thing...the mornings last week were horrible. Kayla sobbed, I sobbed...It was truly the worst feeling in the world to "abandon" her there every day. That said, when I would come to pick her up, she was always CLEARLY having fun. She would be playing, laughing and they would swear that within 5 minutes of me leaving in the morning, she was fine. It didn't make it easier. But the nights...oh the nights were so wonderful. I would go to pick Kayla up and she would spot me from across the room, burst into a beaming smile that made the sun seem dim, would run at me, throw herself into my arms and hug and hug and hug. She was in the BEST mood every night. No matter how little she'd slept at daycare, she was an angel at night. We would lie in the rocking chair together, singing, reading and cuddling...those moments took my breath away and I have never been more glad to have free minutes with that little person.
This week daycare has gone MUCH better. Monday she got down willingly and ran off to play - I think she'd honestly forgotten the previous week's trauma. She did bawl when I left, but I heard it end before I'd reached the front door. Tuesday - she didn't want to get down, but she cried for an even shorter amount of time and today...today she barely cried at all and I could have cheered. I have now driven to work three days in a row without crying. I mean not one tear. There is hope!
Anyway, life is still chaos, but we're starting to sort of settle in. Chris is still back and forth to NYC...Kayla is still figuring out daycare...I'm still figuring out how to work full-time and get dinner on the table...but we're getting there!!
Hang in with me...I may not be great about updating in the coming weeks, but I'll try!! Wait for me!
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