T2 had the week off for Winter Recess. This appears to be a NorthEast thing because growing up in San Francisco, we only had the Christmas week off, then Easter. I think Winter Recess is basically just time to play in the snow or if you're lucky, fly somewhere where there is no snow. We didn't have much of the stuff here this winter so there was no playing.
Hubs and I decided to head into NYC to take T2 to the Natural History museum. He hadn't been there since he was a child, and I haven't been there since moving to New York so we were all very excited.
The museum did not disappoint. We saw a fabulous Planetarium show, incredible animal dioramas, the very famous dinosaur skeleton and so much more. We were fascinated by every new exhibit we saw, every new hall we turned into, and each floor amazed us with the displays. There was so much to do and see that we will need a second trip to finish up all of the exhibits we didn't get to. We were all pretty tuckered out at the end.
After our visit, we needed to get over to the East Side to finally see T1 for the first time since her engagement to T1F. We had coordinated our schedules so that we would meet her when she arrived from the airport. I had just enough time to buy her a bouquet of flowers and we had a couple of small gifts from home to bring her. I 'm not sure I can convert how happy I was, how my heart swelled to see how happy she was! It helped to soften the blow in my heart about her getting married one day and leaving me permanently.
Later in the week, Hubs began some volunteer driving work that he does annually which took him away from home for the better part of the weekend and left me with some awesome quality time with T2. At the same time though, I was left running the show by myself which left me bone tired by the end of each day.
There was the usual grocery shopping (but never having anything for dinner.) I discovered that I could get tired of cereal for dinner last week. There was the play-date that did't really work out. The endless laundry. Even tho Hubs was gone most of the waking hours, the laundry clued me in that he had in fact come and gone.
Thankfully school started this week and I saw the happy faces of many parents, mine included. I think at one point I saw a happy look on T2's face as well.
All this exhaustion made me realize the following:
- There is so much to do in NYC that I need to take advantage of more often
- The actual housework doesn't change when Hubs is gone, just the quantity
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