Re-entry

Well, we're spending our week trying to get back into the "groove" of life and resume our routines. This has been somewhat hampered by the fact that Megan has no school right now due to the BC teachers being on strike. Tuesday, I took them both up to SFU with me so that Calum at least could get back to daycare. Megan brought some books and did a pretty creditable job of entertaining herself, though she is now starting to think there is a serious appeal to going to school on Tuesday mornings. Previously she hasn't bothered to attend school on Tuesdays at all - at her school, Tuesday school only runs in the morning, and it didn't seem worthwhile to drive her up there (it's some distance from our house, a 20-40 min drive depending on the traffic) just for a few hours. Now she's saying she wants to go on Tuesdays after all, presumably to avoid spending a boring day with me... sigh. Just when I'd been looking forward to having a day every week that she and I could spend alone together!!

Anyway, the math lab was unexpectedly closed on Tuesday morning so I wasn't able to drop off my assignment (grumble, grumble... this self-paced algebra course that I was supposed to try and complete in one semester is now looking like it's going to take much longer, as I have only worked through 3 of the 11 units I need to finish before I can move on to the bigger, better and much more intimidating pre-calculus course...) and that means dragging poor Megan up there again on Friday.

I spent the entire day on Tuesday doing my philosophy course - spent the morning listening to the lecture from two weeks ago (they do digital recordings and post them on the web as MP3s.. how cool is that?), the afternoon listening to the previous week's lecture and then in the evening I attended another lecture. My head was spinning, and I must spend much of this weekend trying to absorb and remember all that stuff because we have a midterm next week. Gee, it is a good thing I did not sign up for a third course this semester.

Calum is very very happy to be home and is exhibiting some unusual behaviour this week that makes me think he might be either coming down with something, or just more stressed out than usual (can't blame him for that given how busy and change-filled the past month has been for him). On Tuesday, I left instructions with the daycare staff to call me if he seemed to want to go home, and they did phone after a few hours. I showed up and they said when he sat down to lunch he suddenly started crying and saying he wanted his Mommy. Poor guy! By the time I arrived, he was fine, of course, but he was very happy to see me and very ready to leave. I'm glad that my schedule is so flexible and that I can go and pick him up when he is Done with being there. After we got home, he fell asleep playing on the PS2 at 4:30 and slept straight through till 7 the next morning. This is a kid who gave up naps two years ago and usually needs slightly less sleep than his parents :-) So far he hasn't shown any symptoms of illness so I can only conclude he's stressed, and just keep giving him lots of hugs until he settles back into our routine. Today he gave me a big hug and said, "Mommy, thank you SO MUCH for taking me back to this home place! I love this home!"