My two favorite people have been gone all week.  Dan had to work in Portland this week and thought it would be fun to bring H, hang out with his parents, and give me a week off.  It's always hard to play single mom when he's on his trips, and I imagine it would be much worse being eight months pregnant, so I agreed.  Plus one of my friends, who is a grandmother herself, told me it's much more fun to have the grandkids over when the parents aren't around.

It has been a quiet week, but I've had a hard time sleeping.  I feel so jittery all the time, like I'm just waiting for something.  I thought I'd get a lot done this week, but I move at the pace of a weighted down snail.  A snail who can't stay in one place for too long because if she does, something will start to ache.  Sitting hurts my back, standing hurts my feet, and lying down cuts my air supply or weighs down my hips—and kick starts the obligatory indigestion.  (Remind me again why women do this more than once...)

There was one very important thing that I did get done this week.  Casey got his teeth cleaned!  Well I'm pretty sure he did.  I had to drop him off at the vet this morning, and he hasn't let me look at them since we got home this afternoon, but I think they're clean.  Casey is still pretty mad at me and won't even let me take the bandage from the IV off his leg.  He's also really drugged up.  If he stands in one place for too long, he starts swaying.  It's all pretty funny.  While he was under, they removed a growth from the top of his head so he has this little shaved patch with a sore now.  It looks like he got shot in the head.  I want to take a picture, but I think my camera really is broken, per the last post when I ran it over.  I'm going to let it rest overnight and see if it feels better in the morning.

Here are some pictures of what H has been up to.  You can really see how heartbroken she is from missing her mother.

          
    

They get home tomorrow, though, and I'm so excited to see them.

Random Thought:  Right now, I'm just looking at a pen I dropped on the floor and wondering if I should pick it up right now or wait until I drop something else so I can pick both things up at the same time, which would be more efficient.