Better Late Than Never

I had completely intended on getting this written yesterday, on Day 17, but somehow I ran out of time and then I was putting the baby down for the night and I needed to go to bed. Our first day of having air conditioning again was so very nice! It even felt too cool at times! Still, you don't know what you're missing until it's gone and we sure did miss the AC for those two days. I noticed immediately that Evie has taken better daytime naps yesterday and today, which is always nice.

Yesterday Jeannie came out to visit us. For those who don't know who Jeannie is, she is one of my mom's best friends. Jeannie and my mom met when my mom was pregnant with me and we lived next door to her for the first big chunk of my life as a kid. Jeannie is also (confirmed by yesterday's conversation) the wonderful person who will be taking care of Evie when I go back to work. So it was nice to be able to introduce them to each other. Evelyn slept through the whole hour we visited, but it was nice to have a visitor for me. I actually took the opportunity to take a nap yesterday afternoon as well, which was very nice. I repeated the nap thing today- only for about an hour though. Still, any sleep is good sleep! I also had a visitor today. My long term sub, Becky, brought me lunch and we had a nice time just chit chatting about this and that. We talked a little bit about my students, but for the most part we just had a nice little lunch. It breaks up the day nicely to have people come out and visit around 10 or 11...by the time they leave it's time for Evelyn's longer nap in the afternoon and I get to lay down for a bit too.

Tomorrow my friend Katie and her daughter are coming out. And we may have the owner of the AC company out here to give us a quote on the cost to replace the compressor under the house and the unit outside of the house. He'll probably give us an estimate for replacing the duct work too (which will need to be done at some point), but we're mainly worried about the actual unit working well throughout the summer time and not breaking again. It will be expensive, but in the long run a good investment. Besides, we can't have this gorgeous new baby and have the AC break again in the middle of a NC summer when it gets hotter than Hades and humidity reaches 98%. So, fingers crossed it won't be crazy expensive!

Here is a picture from yesterday:

Day 17


And two from today:

Day 18