Feb 13

Just sitting in the living room. Michelle & Jonathan are off to bed and I'm updating my podcasts and listening to some music (Dan Fogelberg - RIP - currently).

It was a rough day yesterday. I woke up at 4:45 AM after getting up with J at around 1:30. I was out the door by 5:45 when Jenny & Jim gave me a ride to the airport. Jenny flew out to Delaware via Philadelphia and I was off to Appleton, WI. I conducted a meeting at 11:00 and had another one scheduled at 1:30 in Oshkosh. I found out when I got there that I got bumped by the VP of Nursing at Mercy Hospital there in Oshkosh. I used the rest of the afternoon to deliver our brochures to the Nephrologist offices in the Fox Valley. By 5:00 I was back at the airport in Appleton, returning the rental car - a Ford Mustang, which I will not recommend to anyone over 6' and over 230 lbs (which I got that covered). It was about as comfortable as sitting in the Turbo Prop airplane for the hour long flight. I got in at about 8:00 and Michelle and J picked me up. It was a long day.

On Sunday Michelle & I had a discussion that put the Costa Rica plans temporarily on hold. She went to Cass Lake in Northern MN for work from Thursday through Saturday afternoon. So I was home alone with J. So here he was, missing Mommy and fresh off losing his nummies. There were times when it wasn't pretty. She was thinking that if he was difficult for 3 days without Mom, how is he going to be with me gone for 10 days. Well, we talked it over and she talked to a friend and the plans are back on. I postponed mailing out my support letters until it was resolved so now I have some time to make up for. Guess what I'll be doing during my lunch break tomorrow.

So speaking of Costa Rica. Michelle took Jonathan to Burger King in Richfield for dinner tonight since they have a pretty good kids play area. Jonathan always has a good time going to those kinds of places. I think this was his first time at Burger King. While J was playing, Michelle was talking with another mom. Turns out that they live about 5 blocks away and her son is about 6 months older than J. They go to the Evangelical Free Church on around 49th & Chicago and she is originally from Costa Rica. She emigrated here about 5 years ago. Who knows maybe its providence that Michelle met her at this time. It seems like there have been a few of these instances lately. They hit it off and exchanged phone numbers so there may be some playdates in the future and discussions about Costa Rica.