Sizey Ricker Happenings: One is the loneliest number...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot.

Oh, The Places You'll Go - Dr Seuss

For the first time in I can't remember, I have spent the day entirely ALONE! The first few hours were NICE! I worked on getting caught up with organizing/uploading/ordering a year's worth of pictures so I can hopefully get caught up scrapbooking all those pictures before Chicken Nugget comes. The the second two hours started to get a little lonely, I took a shower and tried to call Chris. He took Abby this morning to hike on the Pine Mtn Trail with my mom and dad. I did end up talking to them at about 1pm. Abby had a great time and loved that her Gammy was there. It's hard to be loved so much by one little person, and I am glad that my mom was getting the brunt of it today. Abby would only let my mom carry her - and she wanted to be carried for the entire return trip! Chris left for work from my M&D, and M&D took abby to LaGrange for some mischievous adventures...I think mainly to look at mules and for my dad to convince my mom that "abby needs one". Chris won't be off work till midnight, and I don't really know where abby or my parents are. I took a nap this afternoon, and now it's starting to get lonely:-(

My friend Christy who is also an only child confirms my belief that sometimes we only children just need to be alone sometimes. I think this is giving me my alone fill for a while. I am sure as soon as abby walks in the door I'll want some alone time again:-) After the day we had yesterday (I cleaned up abby's poop and pee off the floor at least 5 times. I threatened to send her to daycare, etc), I think my family knew that I needed a break. That's why Chris Ricker is the best husband ever. He always knows what I need and tries to get it for me - EXCEPT - he won't let me do the 16 wk ultrasound!! I can't believe he doesn't want to know 4 weeks sooner....we need TIME TO PLAN!! I've got 2 weeks to work my magic - wish me luck!

Theodore Roosevelt 1910

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."