need to take a deep breath

I am doing too much driving around in a) traffic and b) car with no AC lately. Michele is on vacation so the kids are in a backup daycare which is located in a place that is technically in between home and work, but a few miles of traffic-clogged streets from the freeway. The kind where there are many traffic lights that all seem to turn red when you get to them and then stay red for a very long time while you are all getting sweaty because the car has no AC. (I've been driving Marlon's car because it's in the back of our tandem driveway when I leave and I am too lazy to park it somewhere else then take my own car).

To top it all off, this morning after spending 30 min to get to the daycare I parked and then realized I had forgotten Maggie's stuff. So I drive home to get it then drive back to the daycare where I realize that her bottles had both leaked and spilled milk all over everything else in the bag. Luckily there was still enough food for her to eat though. I ended up arriving at work around 2 hours after I left the house. After I got there I must have looked very frazzled because several people looked at me oddly and then my manager asked me if I was okay. Actually first she asked me if I was getting sick (ok...this might have been because I was just picking at a zit located right my nose so it was kind of red there). Then when I asked her if I looked strange she told me that maybe I need to fix my hair (!) Hahaha. I don't always brush my hair but it must have looked even worse than usual.

Anyway, we had Indian the other night for a change (we have Chinese food about 75% of the time when we go out, usually at the same restaurant). Maggie was a happy baby and consumed a small bowl of her lentils and rice along with 1.5 peaches (her favorite food of the moment, along with plums).

Mags and Daddy!