John Eddie

I nearly forgot. On 1/11, Heather, Jim, Teri, and I went to the Rams Head tavern in Annapolis for dinner and an evening with John Eddie. This was the first time Teri and I went out without the baby. We had an excelent time, I wish I had brought my camera. We had good seats to take pictures. I was impressed with the new songs that he did. He should hurry up and get out a new recording.

Starting off the year

January has been about average temperature wise, which basically means cold. Not so cold where everything was frozen over all the time, but cold enough so that you can’t do much outside. Thus this leads to a lot of indoor time.
The adjustment continues with Rebecca. Overall things are fine, just learning to adjust the time it takes to do things. It’s a simple idea to just run up to the store, but warming up the car, getting Rebecca set up, making sure everything is in the diaper bag, etc. It takes a lot more time then it use to. It’s hard to explain.
Family Visit
My Mother called me on 1/13 telling me that my sister Mary had unexpectedly popped into town. She was on her way to visit her friend Amy in Gettysburg, PA. She would stop in on the way out of town. On 1/19 she came by and visited with the baby. Little did I know, she had been corresponding with Heather, although they had never met in person. Heather came over also and we all sat around a chatted a while.
It turns out that Amy was a ‘Born Again’ and tried to sell it on Mary. Mary respected her, but it just didn’t work out. Bust Mary got some funny stories out of it how wacky these people are, and how they want religion to run their lives.
Child Care
Teri has been making arrangements on where the baby would go while she was at work. I thought everything was all set. Apparently I was mistaken. On 1/17 she got a call from the woman who was to provide daycare. She was going to have to back out. Apparently the person, who was going to leave, didn’t. Teri had a melt down. She called me at work crying about the whole ordeal. We started the whole interview process over again.
In the end, we have 2 part time providers. On Monday, Tuesday, and Friday we take her to this place off of Telegraph Road. It looks like I will drop off and Teri will pick up. On Wednesday and Thursday we will take her to the place we were originally going to go. The woman is pretty decent and is willing to help us out until we find a permanent place.
Sick Time
So on top of the whole child care dilemma, illness ran through the house. Rebecca had a little cold, then Teri and finally me. I ended up taking off work 3 days to recover. I’m over it now, but I was a mess for a while.

What a day...

Happy New Year! (I guess)
I was planning to have a quiet day on New Years Eve, but Teri tells me that her Dad is coming over to buy lumber to build a shelf in the rafters of the shed. I wish she would have ran this by me. I got over it. Teri and her Dad mostly did the work building the shelf. At the end of the day I'm glad it was done, but it would have been nice to discuss this before we bought the wood and built the thing.
So the day turned into the night. It ended up with the neighbors, Jay and Karen, came over. We played a game of Monopoly, watched the Ball drop, and said good night. New Year's Day started normal enough, did stuff around the house, but basically nothing major. Walked the dog at the park, while there Heather called and we chatted a while. She had called home, missed me, and called me on the cell phone. Nothing unusual, she was going to come over and see the baby but got tied up with some other things. I went home and got dinner underway.
Dinner was coming along fine, Gram was watching the baby, Teri got tiered and laid down while I prepared things. Gram decided that she wanted to go back to her room (from the kitchen). She was back there a while when she asked if Teri was available and she wanted to talk to Teri. They were talking for a few minutes and the conversation sounded strange and I went to see what was going on.
Apparently Gram thought Heather and Jim had come over and sneaked into the house while Teri went up stairs. When Teri told her this didn't happen, she was animate that it did happen. She had called my sister to talk to her about it. And had gone into detail about what they were wearing, the vehicle they were driving, everything! But they were not there, had not been there in weeks.
Teri took Grams blood pressure, it wouldn't register on the meter. We gave her some medication, that didn't help things. Teri called my sister, Cindy, and explained the situation. My sister thought they were there too from Gram's description. After about 10 minutes, we called the ambulance. The paramedics arrived and they had different equipment and were able to get a very high BP measurement. They took her to the hospital. Teri stayed with the baby, which meant I went to the hospital.
My sister meet me there. They did tests and couldn't find anything obviously wrong and admitted her for observation. I finally went home at 3:00am.
The next day, January 2. Things seemed to go better with Gram. Her BP was under control and she was eating well in the hospital. Cindy visited her and Gram seemed in pretty good spirits. Teri called me and told me about this. Also Teri had a doctors appointment and there seemed to be something wrong with her breast. It may not be anything, but the doctor sent her for a follow up exam and appointment next week, I hope it's nothing serious.
To top things off, the dog got lonely and decided to go look for Gram, and wandered off. The neighbor farthest from us called and said he was over there. Teri went and got him.
So that was my day!