Alison Hodgson

Expert on the etiquette of perilous times.

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I might be posting this from my bed.

Paul awoke at four this morning and inadvertently woke me too. Unable to get back to sleep, we got up to walk Jack a little after five.  It was all for naught because the trail was icy and neither of us felt like falling on our duff.  Picky, I know.  We walked Jack around the yard and then went back inside.  It wasn’t even six.  We collapsed into bed and passed out.  I would probably still be sleeping if Lydia didn’t need to get up to go to a program she attends once a week.
She felt sick and had a sore throat so we went to the doctor instead.
We have reached that point in the winter of eye clawing desperation.  
Tonight I am taking Lydia to the Hannah Montana movie.  I know that this isn’t going to help me in the eye clawing category, but it will mean a lot to my little girl and it is recorded here as evidence of my Good Motheredness.
Torey and her two girls, as well as all my kids are on the bed with me.  
And now Paul is home.

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Sorry about that dreary little post below.  We’re still recovering from this last trip and January in Michigan.  There ought to be medals or tax breaks, something.

The day is going better.  School is done.  Paul came home for lunch and I have been working in Eden’s room which is a little hell hole. I have been trying to deal with it for weeks as it is a constant drain of energy and self esteem.  It’s almost completed.  I encouraged the messy little lassie to help me, giving her small tasks to complete.
She lolled on the bed and whined, “I can’t.  I’m too tired.  I’m just a little girl, Mom!”
Once she understood that the alternative to helping was to take a nap, she began to work. Everything in me wants to abandon ship but I am committed to getting everything cleared out. We have sorted through her big basket of books and she has a large pile for Goodwill and a smaller pile for her baby cousin.  I showed her a Mercer Mayer book called, “My Family” and she said,
“Oh I want to keep that one.  It’s…” she thought for a moment, “presuss to me.”

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It is Monday morning.  Grey.

Snow has been falling all week and more fell last night, so everything is fresh and beautiful, but I am blue.
I am reconsidering my job today, being a mother and all.  It’s not seeming like such a good fit for my skill set.  My skill set, such as it is, I am finding quite limited.  I am confident I am qualified to run around shrieking and I think I could handle holding both my hands beside my face while I do it.
I am also extremely good at laying about and reading.  

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