I developed a cold a couple days ago. After getting an extremely sound sleep last night, I felt much better this morning. My throat is still a little sore, but I'm hoping to be clear of all symptoms by mid week. This evening I babysat for our landlord, the family livinn upstairs in our house, and one of the little girls has a cold also. Colds are just miserable. You're definitely sick, but not sick enough to stay home or in bed all day. So you go about life as normal but feel terrible. I wish there were a cold shot like a flu shot. I would definitely get one every year. It would be so worth it... if it worked.

So babysitting. The time just seemed to fly by! I don't know if the difference in the actual kids, or if it's boys vs. girls, but it was so much more fun than when I nanny Peter during the week. Typically I'm with Peter for two hours give or take. Every once in awhile I stay with him longer in the evening if both his parents are working late. But two hours isn't that long at all. I'm still upstairs and have been here since 5:30. And it seems like I've only been here for a half hour. Basically next time I nanny I'll look for a position with girls or really young children. I'm not cut out for second grade boys apparently. Ethan, my eldest nephew, is in second grade and it's just not an enjoyable age for me. But it's so different with Ethan than with Peter, he's my nephew and I would do absolutely anything for him. Of course, when it came down to it, I would put Peter's life before mine, but if it was something minor I might be a little more selfish. I'd like to think I would put any other person's life before mine if ever the moment arose. But we're all just human. Who knows what we'd do? Maybe I'd use someone as a human shield. Ok, new topic.

I'm going to use the money from babysitting to buy the other two chairs for our table. They'll most likely be kept downstairs against the wall because I like our table against the wall in the kitchen, but it's good to have them in case we need them. And I want to buy them before our set is no longer being sold. That would not make me happy. It's a very tiny table, but perfect for us for now. When we next move we'll probably get much larger table for our future family. We just need enough space for two now. It's nice having a little cozy home perfect for two. I cherish this time, truly. I don't envy my parents their first home. My dad was finishing up med school, of his residency, or something like that so he wasn't working. My mom got pregnant a little sooner than expected and they lived in a one room apartment. My dad's office was the closet, which later became Lisa's room when she was a baby. For the first two months of my sister's life my family lived on zero income. This waa this first home, but not their first year of marriage. So don't worry, they didn't have a honeymoon baby or anything. She was just earlier than expected by three months. Not that big of a deal. But I like having security in our wonderful apartment, our jobs, and knowing that if baby number one comes along we'll have plenty of space for it and it will even have it's own room with some privacy.

Tomorrow I'm going to church in the morning and then meeting some of the most amazing women I know for lunch. It's so hard being a grown up and trying to organize get togethers around everyone's work or school schedules. The four girls I'm meeting all used to live on my hall in college and one was our RD last year so she lived within 50 steps of our front door. Now, I live in Boonsboro, Kristin lives on East Campus as a RD, Emily is RA on our old dorm 1, Allie is RA at the new Liberty hotel that is a few miles off campus, and the other Emily lives... somewhere in Lynchburg. Not sure where.So as we are all scattered now with varying schedules it is hard for us to find the time to all sit down together. Tomorrow will be a nice little break from all of lifes activities as we get together for a nice visit. I miss my friends so much. I wish they all lived next door... or we all lived in the same apartment complex or something. Maybe someday... but highly doubtful.

I've been looking at houses for rent in the Lynchburg area. Just for the future. We're still planning on living in our current apartment for another year if they will let us renew our lease. I'm not sure if they will want to continue renting out their basement, but I know they enjoy having us as neighbors. We are very quiet and are always on time with our payments etc. Plus they get a built in babysitter. But anyways, we were planning on renting a townhouse for the following year wherever we move to. But by that time I'll be ready for baby number 1... and as nice as a townhouse would be, a single family home would be far better. We wouldn't want to buy quite yet until we're sure that's where we'll be staying long term... so a rental house would be perfect. I found quite a few that are the perfect price, convienietly located for Matt's job at the hospital, and the perfect size. Surprisingly, the houses were often cheaper than the townhouses for rent! We were planning on our next place having 3-4 rooms. That way there will be enough space for a guest room and baby room, seeing as how our families will probably be visiting when we have kiddos. Of course, since that's still over a year away these same houses probably won't be for rent, but it's nice to know there is a good variety in the area. The trouble would be finding one that isn't furnished. I like all our furniture and wouldn't want to use other peoples things. Who knows who's sat on it etc. And by that time we'd be getting a new bedroom set, a new couch, and a new table. So I'd definitely want something empty that we could decorate all our own. Makes me want to move this summer instead! But this apartment is beautiful and the perfect size. I have to keep reminding myself of that. If we had a house I'd just be that much more ready for a baby. And as I have to patient just now... I need to keep all temptations at bay.

Time for bed. Matthew had his friend, Dave, over who is visiting from New York. Now it's time to get my clothes set out for church tomorrow and get to bed. I hope I sleep as soundly as I did last night and this afternoon when I took a nap. That's the one good thing about being sick. When I sleep I really conk out hard. I called Matt when I woke up from my nap and asked him when he was coming home from work since he was almost an hour late. He told me that he already came home, changed, and went to Dan's house to pick up Dave. He had told me that he was doing this before he left. I don't remember that at all. But apparently we had a little conversation when he was home. Oh well. At least I was resting. My body needs rest. And I didn't eat very much today. Usually when I have a cold I eat a lot. Oh well.

Goodnight now.