As you can imagine, I have a bit of work to do before leaving Saturday to go to Ethiopia. There's the packing, cleaning, and house prep. There's the finishing six weeks of work so I can take off on maternity leave with a clear conscience and a clean slate. And then there's a bunch of moonlighting I need to do, which is basically how we're paying for this adoption.
So I sort of had big plans this afternoon when I left work and went to pick up D from Anna. I was hoping to get at least a few things done during the course of the afternoon. But D had other plans. First, we had to go play air hockey with Aunt Kate, which had been on Dillon's to do list for, like, a week, and he's brought it up every day to me. So we played for a while, ate some pie, then Kate and Dillon played and I fell asleep on Kate's pillow fort.
After I awoke from that short nap, Dillon decided we were going to play some cards, so he beat me at Uno a few times, then at Alphabet Go Fish. I flopped into an office chair that has recently made its way into our living room and he decided to spin me around in circles until I was dizzy and then push me around the living room and down the hallway in the chair. Dharma hopped up for a spin, too.
At some point I looked up and it was 4:15 and I had to leave to go to a meeting. But I can't help thinking that laughing and playing with D all afternoon was as important as any of the other things I could have done today.