Yes, I am very ready for school to start again, not so much because it gets me out of the house (although that's great, too), but because I feel like I need a certain amount of time for being in my own head every day, and if I don't get that, I get irritable.
Sometimes Z is much more clingy than others, and when she's clingy, it's impossible to focus my attention on anything else--like this morning, she clings to my legs and tries to squeeze between my knees and the cupboard when I'm trying to wash dishes (a task which really doesn't take that long, but it's phenomenally frustrating when she won't go play on her own for a bit!). At least she usually brings us books when she wants attention, because she knows we'll stop and read with her. The last couple days her new thing is finding little bits of dirt and putting them in her mouth, then coming over and sticking out her tongue so we can see that she's eating something icky, and when we try to retrieve it, she giggles and runs. She loves the chasing. HEE--so I'm trying to chase her more often without the eating-dirt part.
ANYWAY. This is really a long-winded little rant, and a verbose way of saying that we're going to take her to the big-city zoo tomorrow (the Mr. took vacation, and one of my work-friends is coming, too), so that will be fun.
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Sometimes Z is much more clingy than others, and when she's clingy, it's impossible to focus my attention on anything else--like this morning, she clings to my legs and tries to squeeze between my knees and the cupboard when I'm trying to wash dishes (a task which really doesn't take that long, but it's phenomenally frustrating when she won't go play on her own for a bit!). At least she usually brings us books when she wants attention, because she knows we'll stop and read with her. The last couple days her new thing is finding little bits of dirt and putting them in her mouth, then coming over and sticking out her tongue so we can see that she's eating something icky, and when we try to retrieve it, she giggles and runs. She loves the chasing. HEE--so I'm trying to chase her more often without the eating-dirt part.
ANYWAY. This is really a long-winded little rant, and a verbose way of saying that we're going to take her to the big-city zoo tomorrow (the Mr. took vacation, and one of my work-friends is coming, too), so that will be fun.