Bees in my Tummy

This morning, Ben went off to work as usual. Eden went off to gan - in Kaiser, another neighborhood that has a branch of her gan. Its not really gan today, since gan is closed, but the afternoon program is open so that parents can go back to work.
Eden was worried that none of her friends were going to be there, and that she would have no one to play with. Good for her for expressing it, although this is maybe the 3rd or 4th time in her life that she's been nervous about going to gan. I asked her if she had butterflies in her tummy, and she said no, bees. - ? - . She even tried to do what Winnie the Pooh does, and blow them out, but it didn't work. In the end, her friends were there and her afternoon teacher was there, and she was OK, although hesitant in a new place. You know, even though I'm sure that she will be fine, I'm nervous for her too - I think just because she's nervous. I'm really feeling what she's feeling.

I have a funny day today also. I have a mandatory vacation day, which is great, since its a day on my own, without Eden. I can completely transfer back to chametz, catch up on laundry and housework, and still have time to relax. But I feel funny, with no one to speak to and nothing really fun to do. (Switching over a kitchen and doing laundry is NOT fun. Going shopping for things that I really don't need would be fun, but it would also involve spending money. How do people spend time by themselves for extending days at a time without spending more money?!) I find myself speaking out loud... to nobody. I suppose its a good thing I have a blog.

So I'm putting off switching over. For example, I'm going to go out and buy some good storage containers to keep the Pesach things in, since our Pesach organization isn't that great. And while I'm there, I may as well do the weeks grocery shopping, which requires me to look up recipes and make menu lists before I leave. Ah and also, I have to start to take lunch to work. I can do some research about that before I leave. How do you plan dinners as well as lunches? And also get some laundry in. At this rate, I'll be lucky if the Pesach things are all put away by the end of the day......

Edit - 1:39 PM. Pesach things are all put away (did not buy the containers in the end, they are too expensive and we really don't need them), but its such a drag to take the chametz things out again and reorganize. I think I'll make a chicken pot pie with left over soup and a coffee cake instead.

And some more thoughts on the lines of the above: My goal during maternity leave is not to spend more money than I would have if I was driving to work every day. I can see myself either going to get very fat by baking things like above coffee cake, or spend a lot of money going out for breakfast with friends who are also on maternity leave. Or spend a lot of money going out by myself with the baby, and spending the money on gas that I was supposed to be saving by not going to work. And all at once. So, it would be nice to even come out ahead, but I think planning on at least breaking even is more realistic.