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sweet spot
By heather | November 12, 2009
We are 36 hours into the Nor’easter that is pummeling much of the East Coast and I don’t have any idea how bad it is anywhere else because I’ve kept going to work even though yesterday was Veteran’s Day and today was essential personnel only. I am not essential but I have so much work to do right now that I couldn’t NOT go.
Mother Nature has forced me to take a day tomorrow because because the military base where I work is flooded and closed. The irony of working feverishly on a continuity of operations and disaster recovery plan from home because the base infrastructure is flooded is not lost on me.
Today I picked up the kids a few hours early and we came home and napped and snuggled and watched Madagascar, and it was warm and relaxing and cuddly just like this kind of day should be. We danced to the “Move It” song at the end and laughed hysterically. I made homemade mac n’ cheese for dinner and it was delicious.
At bathtime I noticed the wind picking up and turned on the news to find it wasn’t my imagination – we were filelding 70 mile/hour gusts. Because we have an older house with lots of old, gigantic trees the kids are camping in the downstairs playroom tonight so that I’ll actually be able to sleep instead of jolting awake with every gust.
Tomorrow I think we’ll do lots of home-y things like bake cookies and have pancakes for breakfast and get messy painting.
This, right here, is the sweet spot – where the free pass from work and school is festive and fun. The sweet spot is just down the road from edgy boredom and an ache to return to normalcy, the routine and the structure.
But for now we enjoy it. Sweet.
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November 12th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Enjoy your sweet time! You’re set for milk and bread and eggs though right?
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November 13th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I love that description of the “sweet spot.” It’s so great when you can enjoy such times.
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November 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I know and love that sweet spot! Stay safe.
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November 20th, 2009 at 6:13 am
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