What a week we've had

I no sooner finished my last post and the next day I got a phone call from my mom.. It went something like this " Hey Cheryl Mom here. Just got off the phone with Steve and he told me some really sad news. Mr Salamance died yesterday. Can you go online to get his obit for me?" There was alot more to the conversation that we had but that news alone floored me. Now we are in no way related to the Salamanca family but my brother is very good friends with one of the sons and the youngest son and I were friends growing up even though he was one school year ahead of me. The reason that I was so floored by the news is that not even 3 months ago (in Mid-April) Mrs Salamanca died somewhat unexpectedly. So the family had been slowly adjusting to her death and now they have to adjust to the fact that both of their parents are deceased. The funeral was today and there were quite a few tears shed by many in attendance.

Monday also brought Anna and Lily's first week in daycare. They seem to like it quite a bit already. There are 4 other kids (it's an in home daycare) and they love the attention that they get from them. The daycare lady is wonderful.. she realizes that I am nervous about leaving my babies somewhere with someone I barely even know for a majority of the day. Our first day I barely had the girls there at all. I got them there around 9am and stayed till 10am with them and then left for a couple of hours and then came back to get them at around 12:15 but stayed to let them play for a little while till 1pmish. Tuesday I had planned to basically do the same but the daycare lady convinced me to let them stay since I had an appt and it would be less disruptive to their day. They did so well. Didn't sleep much but that was to be expected. Since Wed though they've been staying the whole day 9:30am till 3:30 or 4pm.

What else has been happening lately this week? Lee and I have been taking advantage of not having small people around the apartment while we try to get the apartment clean by working on different projects around the apartment and getting other errands done. One such project was putting the big A/C in the living room window after we moved my desk to near the doorway to the girl's bedroom. It's amazing to see how much more open the living room feels with this somewhat small change in the layout. We also we able to get our baby corral/gate up somewhat permanently without us needing to test our hurdling skills on a daily basis since the corral I got has a section that opens like a door with a latch. So now we can open and close the gate to our content without worrying that the babies will make a break for it. There's one other big change around here but that's better left for another post.

I almost forgot something.. I ran with the Melrose Running Club for the first time on Tuesday. It was a great run even though I had no clue where we were going to be running the route. So I just did my best to run as much as I could and to keep an eye on the people in front of me and hope that they were going the same direction that I wanted to go also. Once the run was over, I decided to join the club right away. They gave me a prorated rate for the remainder of the year of $13 (way better than $25). With my membership I found out that I now get a discount at the local running supply store.. Very Cool.. I love to save money as much as I can. I can't wait to do the run again this coming Tuesday. Now that I know the route that we will be running, I might even be able to do it much easier this coming Tuesday evening.