Lonely Lexa

Chloe has her first sleep over tonight at a friend's house. She has had lots of playdates up until this point, but I felt she was a little young for a sleep over. I would probably still be saying that if the calendar and kind people hadn't intervened. I have to go back to work tomorrow, but Chloe's school is scheduled for an inservice day (teachers go but not kids). It is a pain when these things happen, and it is one of the times that I wish I lived closer to family. Nothing says daycare in a pinch like being able to drop your kids for the day with their grandmother or aunt. I was down to thinking that Chloe would have to go to work with me tomorrow. A plan that she was pretty excited about, but I was not sure it would work too well. As fate would have it I talked to a fellow working mom last week. The parent of one of Chloe's friends who also happens to have a child in preschool with Alexa. We have gotten to know one another fairly well over the years at birthday parties, girl scouts, open houses, and concerts. She offered to let Chloe come play on Tuesday while I was at work. I thought this sounded great to me and called her this weekend to make sure it would still work. She is a teacher as well (although her district is still off tomorrow). I wanted to be sure that she was OK with the early hour that I would need to drop Chloe off. It was at this point that she said they were wondering if Chloe would like to have a sleepover and that way she wouldn't have to get up early. I ran it by Chloe and she was over joyed at the idea. She was packing her bag, pillow, and sleeping bag first thing this morning.

Alexa on the other hand was less excited. There was the initial grumpiness about Chloe going to play while she was at preschool. Then she moved on to sadness about not wanting Chloe to leave. We tried to make the best of it. After dropping Chloe off this evening we stopped by City Market. I told her that she could pick out whatever she wanted for dinner. She created quite a feast.

We of course made sure to have dessert. Her favorite strawberry ice cream, topped off with a chocolate chip cookie, and chocolate ball on top.

She got a nice long bubble bath before bed.

Cabbie tried to fill in as a playmate.

She was still sad about missing Chloe as she went off to sleep, but too tired to complain for very long.

Cookie crazy

I volunteered to bake cookies for the school PTO bake sale tonight. It seemed like a good idea weeks ago when I check off the paper and sent it in. Tonight I assure you the last thing I feel like doing is baking cookies. Although I have taste tested a few- you know just to make sure they are safe. Today was one of those days at work where there are certain kids names you have said over and over again. To make it worse we had an event where parents came in to see the kids projects which means a lot of smiles, hand shakes, and small talk.

Small talk always makes my head spin. Sometimes I get a sort of out of body experience with small talk. Like I hear myself saying things and I think what the hell are you saying? Stop talking. But no I just keep rambling on. I find the entire thing exhausting. So I dropped Alexa off with her sister to have dinner with her dad and really wanted to come home and nap.

Luckily I am done training for the Key Bank marathon over (Memorial Day weekend) so I guilt free ducked out of a run in the rain and 35 mile per hour wind gusts. Cut exercise down to walking the dog, but I still must bake the cookies. Ah the cookies.