getting better, rv life

9/20/25

it seems H’s skin getting better too. Today kept him in a sleeveless shirt for the first time in many, many months. Have not been able to do that since around when pollen season started because whenever he was not wearing long sleeves, he would itch his elbows every minute. Today, sleeveless for hours, he hardly touched it. 

9/21/25

tonight i lifted up my shirt, i think to scratch my belly, and Hunter was in front of me and was like, “whoa! it’s a different language!” and he walked up to it and squeezed it and was like, “this is a whole different language!!” it was late, I think he was really tired.

9/23/25

I noticed also that with the smaller space for food, it seems that we waste less. There’s just less space to keep more than like one or two leftovers, so the leftovers are finished up before/when we cook new stuff, and don’t get pressed back and pile up to the back of the fridge, because there’s like no real depth to the fridge – there’s only this small fridge space where you can see mostly everything we currently have. 

we went for a walk tonight, through the RV park we’re currently at, just to get out, and Hunter rode his little scooter across the basketball court, and we walked through and looked at the few Halloween decorations. I noticed that while my right foot still has a spot that’s sticking with every step, my left foot feels pretty dry.

9/24/25

when it rains hard enough, you can hear every drop. it’s like living in a sardine can. 

all the laundry gets done right away – folded and put away pretty much right after it’s dried, because there’s just no space to leave it. Back at the old house, I would do the laundry and let it sit in the dryer or leave it clean and dry but in the basket for days in a corner of the house if it wasn’t convenient to fold then. now I just have to put it all away immediately, no matter how late it is.

9/25/25

“im still eating”

baby realizes that when he says this, we stop trying to make him go to bed and leave him alone to eat. so tonight we ate at a restaurant (La Posada, which was excellent) and all the food was packed away and we were about to leave and i started talking about we should go to sleep right when we get home, and like a reflex, he just shouted out this phrase. 

9/26/25

The past like two days, skin markedly better. Still must wear bandages, but it feels drier when walking, and at night when I soothe, I don’t have to do it for as long – maybe half the time (going to sleep at a more consistent 3 AM instead of 5 or later). again, this is happening parallel to the sustained, much lower pollen counts.