Hope everyone had a good holiday, or normal week depending on where you were. I was offline for nearly the entire weekend, partly due to a cold, and partly due to just spending time at home.
Phew, it’s hard work taking care of a 2 year old. And Roxanne is definitely in her twos now, oh, boy. Her verbal skills are so far advanced it’s hard to remember that many other of her skills – like dealing with disappointments – are still just at a 2 year old level. Being sure to only offer choices you want to do, and making sure that everything you don’t want her to play with is completely out of sight, helps a lot. But that’s hard to remember to do every second she’s awake, and even so, there are plenty of tantrum-worthy things she wants to do even if she can’t see them in front of her.
Anyway, Thanksgiving was filled with all the usual fixings; we made the cranberry bread (extra good) and chocolate pie (not quite as good as the family recipie) ourselves this year. TV was the History channel – watching the history of food, instead of the cooking shows. Then a few football games – the one time of year I enjoy watching football. It ended up being a long day, and an even longer weekend when we realized Roxanne thought her bedtime was supposed to be 10pm. But it was a nice week nonetheless.
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