Walking Backwards

*yawn* I should be asleep. Yes, that's right, I should be asleep at almost 9 am on a Tuesday. Last night Nicholas decided to torture me by waking me up every twenty minutes from midnight until 4:30 when he decided to get up for good. I did get him to lie down again at about 6:30, but no rest for weary me because Joe then woke up. When he finally left I laid down only to be called twenty minutes later by Joe telling me that he hadn't called the people in our carpool and Nico's preschool. Damn him. So up I am. I had gotten so used to Nicholas sleeping through the night that it is so difficult to go back to no sleep. We have a doctor's appointment a little later today just to make sure the little guy doesn't have an ear infection or some other thing keeping him up, you know, other than spite.

Last night Joe was out until about 11 so I took Nicholas on some night-time errand running before dinner. It was actually pretty neat. We stopped by my school to buy my textbooks for next semester and just check out the campus. The campus is in the middle of downtown, so there were still a lot of people out even though it was dark. Nicholas really enjoyed walking up and down the night-sidewalks and waiting at the crosswalk (something that is really lacking in the suburbs). After picking up my three very heavy textbooks, we played in the school's courtyard for a bit and then went to visit my brother at work. Whole Foods now has its own line of Indian-inspired frozen dinners that rock my world. I am so in love with the mattar paneer. I loaded up our cart with those and some other natural food goodies, too eager to get them home to wait for my brother to use his discount. All in all, Nicholas and I really had a good time even though mister task-master normally doesn't abide by any break in the routine. It just reminded me of how much fun Nicholas and I can have when you throw plans out the window.

More later, I have a doctor's appointment to get ready for.