Missed you too

It's been a long few weeks, to say the least. My advisor came to me a month ago with a grant idea and data that he wanted. Eager to please, I jumped to start getting the required graphs, figures, and pictures, when I had the unpleasant realization that I couldn't even get started on generating anything for another two weeks because of the lead time necessary for the bio side of things. Starting about two weeks ago, the other grad student and I were able to actually start getting the data, but realized after the fact that we had, in fact, fixed the cells wrong and the staining I was doing wouldn't work. And I've been in crisis mode ever since. Luckily, we pulled some data out of the fire somehow, and the grant got submitted yesterday. Whew!

That being said, the cost of getting this grant was a lack of weekends and nights at home, and I didn't realize how much it had affected my little girl until yesterday. I finally took a bit of a lazy start to the day, walking Emma around 8 instead of 7am, and getting back into bed to snuggle for another hour or so. This time, though, Emma joined us in bed, lying alternately on top of one of us and asking to be pet. She brought up an old sock (that had been previously donated to her playtoys) for tug-of-war/chew session for a good 15 minutes, and was being just generally cuddly, snuggly and adorable. (Note: Emma NEVER wants to cuddle. She's happier just being at our feet)

It almost made me cry when I realized how much you had missed me, so, my little bear, I promise the next few weeks will be filled with more Emma time and less lab time, more walks and park time rather than microscope time. What better way to spend the weekend than with someone who you adore and who adores you (with wagging tail) right back?