A Trifecta!

Three things that I enjoy:

• A day with no appointments
• Having the house all to myself
• Rain.

Today I got all three. I've gotten so much done, and I've managed to have some time to just enjoy my day at the same time. The task list isn't clear, but it's a little smaller than it was this morning, and I'm satisfied with that.

Elizabeth is job shadowing at the hospital today. She started last Friday job shadowing the Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech Therapists. So far, her favorite has been Occupational Therapy in Rehab. It seems that helping people with ADL (Activities of Daily Living) appeals to her. Yesterday she helped patients bake bread, cut up apples, eat, and take a shower. She's been so excited every day coming home that I think she may be on to something! I told her if she was interested, I'd see if we could get her into Woman's so that she could see how PT's and OT's work with babies.

I remember having a PT and an RT there the first time I fed Elizabeth. I was feeding her breastmilk out of a bottle, and there were two or three nurses, the aforementioned PT and RT, a nutritionist, and about 297 other people standing around monitoring as I gave her a bottle. One of them remarked about how well I was doing for a first time mother, so I told them she was the first one I had given birth to, but she certainly wasn't the first one I'd fed. I'd been feeding babies since Connie was born when I was not-quite-3.

So back to today ... I've still got about two hours before Joe and Elizabeth get home, so I'm going to take a shower and read. Doesn't that sound wonderful?