365 Days of Duran

This is the Duran life. This blog, which started in 2010, as part of the "365 Project", aiming to document a year of life through photo has morphed through the years. First into a "52 Weeks of Duran" format, and now into (pretty much) photographic documentation of our lives now. While life has caught up to me as our family has grown, photography means the world to me, and often speaks volumes beyond word, and I cherish the chance to look back on our memories, so I continue on...

Friday, February 10, 2012

2/10/12

Today was my Friday home with the girls. We had a fairly low key day. They were both still feeling pretty crappy. They were actually playing and quite happier, but all of the cold symptoms were still going strong. Poor things, I hope this is their last illness for a while!

I checked my e-mail this morning, and to my surprise, had an e-mail from the in-home daycare we interviewed last week. She was checking to see if we had contacted the referrals she sent me, and if we had found care for the girls yet. She surprised me by saying she and her husband had talked, and really enjoyed our interview, and the girls, and offered to adjust their hours for us. It's still not ideal...she offered 7:00-5:00. So, if we went with them, we would have to do full time, and I would have to switch to 5, 8-hour days a week, but it could actually work. Now, I'm so torn. I feel like we've already committed to KinderCare, and I have all of the paperwork to fill out, our start day and we've worked everything out with our parents. BUT, I just have such a strong feeling towards this in-home. I really like them, and everything they have to offer. Of course, Christian is still against me, for no GOOD reason, so that's probably not going to happen anyway. I'm upset about it though...I feel like they have so much more to offer, and we can get 5 days from them for the price of 3 at KinderCare. But, Christian seems adamant about part time, in a center. What to do, what to do...

Other than that, we really just hung out all day. The girls ate really well and played together great, which always makes life a little easier. Christian had his work "Holiday" dinner tonight, so it was just me and the girls, all day, and all night. I got my workout in during naptime, and it was BRUTAL. Glad I did it though. My weight in today was another slightly disappointing one, down 0.6lbs. DOWN, which is good, but not the at-least-a-pound I'm hoping to get every week. I'm staying positive though. In all, I've lost 7.2lbs in my first month, and I'm pretty happy with that.

Tonight, the girls and I made a mess of the kitchen, cooking up some Valentines cupcakes. They had so much fun, it was worth all of the clean up!