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Knock on wood, but Evelyn has not been murderously whiny today. I so hope that trend continues after her nap(. She has been driving both of us crazy because there has just been no pleasing her. She often perks up when she has days like these and then M comes home, and she is all happy and M is clearly wondering exactly which part of her behavior was driving me to drink--was it the spontaneous hugs or the way she is dancing around in a circle saying "round around around" until she falls on her butt and giggles? That sort of thing. But the other night, I saw the fires of insanity growing in his eyes, too, wondering exactly where his sweet, sweet baby had gone while he'd been at work. If it was logical, or even understandable, it'd be one thing, but she has been whining about things she wants to do while she's DOING THEM. It's so unlike her. I know that there's something wrong but I can't really figure out what. She started getting sick last week, but then she didn't really get too sick before it went away. Her nose is still a little runny but other than that, she seems fine except clearly she is not. I don't know. Kids are like giant puzzles most of the time.
But they're cute.
I was all smart this week and went shopping on Sunday morning so as to keep from having to go out much this week. Hahaha. I have now been to Walgreens five times this week. Five! It's crazy! And I still didn't find what I was looking for (though I've made quite a bit of money on doing going anyway.) I don't usually get so attached to one particular deal, but I really wanted a pink hair dryer for some reason. I don't even know why. Mine works. Alas, out of stock still this morning. I guess I'll live without it. My favorite cashier volunteered to physically go check a Walgreens in another town for me. I thought that was so sweet of her, but you'll be glad to know that I did not actually ask her to do so. I am persistent but I'm not insane. I don't need someone else partaking in my crazy.
Usually. M doesn't count. I make him partake of my crazy regularly.
I researched the process of renewing M's passport and getting a passport for E (and mainly, "registering" her as Swedish) when I was pregnant. Then, I was under the impression that I would need to make two separate trips to any consulate type place (closest one for us being about five hours away) to apply for and then pick up the passports. That sounded like a pain in the rear so we never got around to it. M has got a week of vacation coming up at the end of the month and it was occurring to us that maybe we should use part of it to drive up and get that whole thing started, so I started with another round of research this week and it looks like (according to this page) that these visits have to be done in New York, LA or Washington DC, as of March 1, 2007 (or, a few months after I was doing all this useless research.) Unless I am just reading everything wrong, that seems to be what the rules are. That freaking sucks. First of all... not going to happen. Second of all... heightened security and all that, sure, but seriously? Do you know how far away those places are from here, and from most of America? 557 miles to Washington. 736 to New York, which is where our official district is. What the heck? I guess we'll do it when we're in Sweden next time because two trips to either of those places... not going to happen. M has an American passport so it's not something we HAVE to do. I think it's pretty sad that intercontinental travel is an easier solution than dealing with the correct agency, but there you go. Governments.
*Took me all day to finish writing this post so I can safely say that yes, she was in a nice mood again, at least until half an hour before bedtime. Yay for the return of my sweet girl**!
**She threw her arms around my legs first thing the other morning, gave me a spontaneous hug and said, "Mommy--baby best friend!" She wins at the sweetness. Also, where should we keep the pony that I bought her??
But they're cute.
I was all smart this week and went shopping on Sunday morning so as to keep from having to go out much this week. Hahaha. I have now been to Walgreens five times this week. Five! It's crazy! And I still didn't find what I was looking for (though I've made quite a bit of money on doing going anyway.) I don't usually get so attached to one particular deal, but I really wanted a pink hair dryer for some reason. I don't even know why. Mine works. Alas, out of stock still this morning. I guess I'll live without it. My favorite cashier volunteered to physically go check a Walgreens in another town for me. I thought that was so sweet of her, but you'll be glad to know that I did not actually ask her to do so. I am persistent but I'm not insane. I don't need someone else partaking in my crazy.
Usually. M doesn't count. I make him partake of my crazy regularly.
I researched the process of renewing M's passport and getting a passport for E (and mainly, "registering" her as Swedish) when I was pregnant. Then, I was under the impression that I would need to make two separate trips to any consulate type place (closest one for us being about five hours away) to apply for and then pick up the passports. That sounded like a pain in the rear so we never got around to it. M has got a week of vacation coming up at the end of the month and it was occurring to us that maybe we should use part of it to drive up and get that whole thing started, so I started with another round of research this week and it looks like (according to this page) that these visits have to be done in New York, LA or Washington DC, as of March 1, 2007 (or, a few months after I was doing all this useless research.) Unless I am just reading everything wrong, that seems to be what the rules are. That freaking sucks. First of all... not going to happen. Second of all... heightened security and all that, sure, but seriously? Do you know how far away those places are from here, and from most of America? 557 miles to Washington. 736 to New York, which is where our official district is. What the heck? I guess we'll do it when we're in Sweden next time because two trips to either of those places... not going to happen. M has an American passport so it's not something we HAVE to do. I think it's pretty sad that intercontinental travel is an easier solution than dealing with the correct agency, but there you go. Governments.
*Took me all day to finish writing this post so I can safely say that yes, she was in a nice mood again, at least until half an hour before bedtime. Yay for the return of my sweet girl**!
**She threw her arms around my legs first thing the other morning, gave me a spontaneous hug and said, "Mommy--baby best friend!" She wins at the sweetness. Also, where should we keep the pony that I bought her??
