More waiting...

It has been three days after Hurricane Ike touched down on Saturday. People have done a lot to improve the situation. Lucky the weather is nice enough to keep recovery effort going on. The constant news on news doesn't make me feel any better - food/ice shortage, gas shortage...

Kaitlyn is so happy to be off school, but... getting bored. I took her to the park yesterday morning, we had a good time. This is one good thing from hurricane disaster - I could spend more time with her, I have no complains at all.

On our way back from playground, I found pieces of shingles laying on our front yard. I wondered where they came from. I looked up our roof, ohh great! It's ours! I guess they were blown loose during hurricane, with winds picked up today, they finally fell off. Doesn't look that bad, at least I didn't notice any leaking roof inside the house. Well, I got some work to do tomorrow, calling people to estimate and repair...

Yesteday evening, I asked Kaitlyn to play with neighborhood kids on the street while I was cooking. Things didn't work very well. She is so shy to play with them, mainly because she doesn't feel comfortable playing with kids she doesn't know. I walked her there, talked to one mom I know better from the church. (She ended up talking to her most of the time!) That neighbor had a lot of guests over from Houston and Pearland to stay over, there were at least 1o kids running around crazy with toy cars, scooters, bicycles, etc. at one point.

I don't blame her not mingle with them. Most of those kids know each other because the five moms around the corner don't work, so the kids all play together in the afternoon everyday. By the time she/we get home, they're mostly ready to get back to the houses or back home for dinner already, she doesn't have much chance playing with them. I feel bad for her. There are pros and cons for working parents, it's our choices and we believe we're making the right decision. This is truly a constant battle for working moms all the time.

As boring as she is at home all day yesterday, I dropped her off at Christian's house today. She was so excited. "Finally! Yeah finally!" That's what she said. Even kids at this young age feel the joyfulness of friendship - even though they both started making news friends at their new schools, they still miss each other a lot! Hope she would have some good friends growing up together for the rest of her life.

Well, got to go pick her up and cook for dinner.

Just got a message from her school, they will be closed for the rest of the week - ohh my gosh, we'll need to help each other on babysitting or just need to bring her to work...