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Well, the weekend was exhausting. Not really surprising. I love my family and they're pretty low key, but my grandmother is not improving and my little nephew has a cold. Unfortunately that made him a little fussier and squeakier than he would've been otherwise, neither of which was helpful for stabilizing me.
I probably could've helped myself a bit by finding a place to go hide for a time now and then, but I see my family so seldom that it didn't really occur to me. Once or twice a year is about the standard, unless it's my other grandmother. She lives around here, so it's a little easier to visit.
Everyone in the family, practically, was taking pictures of my nephew and everyone else interacting with him. After being bemused by that for awhile, I realized that while I absolutely still don't like pictures, we may not have my grandma around that long, and my nephew will never be this small again. So I took a few videos with my new tablet. (That would've been a useless gesture with my old iPad, but this tablet's camera is of sufficient quality that the result is passable. Yay. Much better than still pictures, in my opinion.)
I got to hold my nephew for a very short time. I don't really know what to do with babies, so I basically just put out my arms and held very still. If you hold very still, nothing can go wrong, right? He didn't start crying, anyway, and I think people got some blackmail material, so that's all fine and well.
I ended up driving back late Saturday so I could sleep in my own bed, in my relatively quiet apartment rather than in the tiny cold bedroom above a blaring TV. I got back home about two hours after my bedtime and was exhausted all the next day, but I still think it was worth it. Now to survive the week.
Well, the weekend was exhausting. Not really surprising. I love my family and they're pretty low key, but my grandmother is not improving and my little nephew has a cold. Unfortunately that made him a little fussier and squeakier than he would've been otherwise, neither of which was helpful for stabilizing me.
I probably could've helped myself a bit by finding a place to go hide for a time now and then, but I see my family so seldom that it didn't really occur to me. Once or twice a year is about the standard, unless it's my other grandmother. She lives around here, so it's a little easier to visit.
Everyone in the family, practically, was taking pictures of my nephew and everyone else interacting with him. After being bemused by that for awhile, I realized that while I absolutely still don't like pictures, we may not have my grandma around that long, and my nephew will never be this small again. So I took a few videos with my new tablet. (That would've been a useless gesture with my old iPad, but this tablet's camera is of sufficient quality that the result is passable. Yay. Much better than still pictures, in my opinion.)
I got to hold my nephew for a very short time. I don't really know what to do with babies, so I basically just put out my arms and held very still. If you hold very still, nothing can go wrong, right? He didn't start crying, anyway, and I think people got some blackmail material, so that's all fine and well.
I ended up driving back late Saturday so I could sleep in my own bed, in my relatively quiet apartment rather than in the tiny cold bedroom above a blaring TV. I got back home about two hours after my bedtime and was exhausted all the next day, but I still think it was worth it. Now to survive the week.
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