sick kids Archives - Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/tag/sick-kids/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:39:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://lauravanderkam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-site-icon-2-32x32.png sick kids Archives - Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/tag/sick-kids/ 32 32 145501903 A little tranquility on Tuesday https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/a-little-tranquility-on-tuesday/ https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/a-little-tranquility-on-tuesday/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:45:13 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18490 So, I went back.

Over the weekend my family went to see the cherry blossoms in DC. They were gorgeous, if a few days pre-peak. I was completely satisfied with that trip but…we only get so many springs right?

I looked at the weather, looked at my calendar, and decided to go back by myself yesterday when everything was in full gorgeous blossom. I took the train so I could work both ways. And I spent a few hours wandering around the Tidal Basin, just gawking at the thick canopy of snow-white flowers.

There are several more pictures on my Instagram account (@lvanderkam). As I walked I just couldn’t stop smiling. And since it was a Tuesday, there were plenty of less crowded spots. Just a little mid-week tranquility, and a big adventure for the week…

…which was good because as I was putting the 7-year-old to bed last night he said his stomach hurt and then – yep. Another round of getting vomited on. This morning the 10-year-old was calling for me and it turned out she had it too (though she was old enough to make it to the bathroom — one of the upsides of children growing up…). So, it was good I enjoyed the flowers yesterday as today there’s just a lot of laundry going on at the house!

]]> https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/a-little-tranquility-on-tuesday/feed/ 5 18490 Friday miscellany: Just muddling through https://lauravanderkam.com/2021/10/friday-miscellany-just-muddling-through/ https://lauravanderkam.com/2021/10/friday-miscellany-just-muddling-through/#respond Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:01:28 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18227 On some level it was a productive week. I have a draft of Tranquility by Tuesday, all in one document, with all the bits introducing sections and so forth. The book won’t be out until October 11, 2022, but that gives me time to make it better, to build my platform. I aim to do my “editing retreat” next week to sit with the manuscript for a few days with no interruptions. I’ve also been thinking about cover concepts.

I managed to clean out several closets and move the stuff to the new house’s garage. Any prospective buyers will now see that our closets have floors, which apparently is a desirable thing in a house.

On the other hand, there was a lot of muddling through. Two kids came home sick from school in the middle of the week. Covid negative, but still sick. My husband went to an event last night and since we didn’t have childcare coverage (also sick!) I dialed into choir by Zoom. This went better than it could have — my daughter watched the baby for the first half hour, I got the 14-year-old signed on to his tutoring session at 7:30, I turned the camera off and got the baby to bed, and then I turned the camera back on to do the rest of the rehearsal in the garage since I didn’t want my singing to wake up the baby. Still, there is a certain ridiculousness to singing into your phone in the garage…

Anyway, it’s my turn to take the baby right now so off to do that and go get individual cakes for a weekend birthday party so no one has to take off their masks to eat. A very 2021 sort of celebration…

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