Archive for December, 2007
it’s a christmas miracle
…even though it’s after Christmas and it sure didn’t start out that way.
I had a little melt down this morning when husband Scott informed me that he’d looked over the revised medical bills from the birth and after insurance we still owe $8,000+.
Yes, scary.
It is the weekend though, so if there is going to be [...]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 6:28 pm in baby baby baby | 2 Comments »
i surrender
I surrender to spending whole days in bed with an infant attached to my boob while I circle the TV channel spectrum on my remote.
I surrender to reruns of TV shows I never wanted to watch in the first place.
I surrender my idea that I could be the mom that always responds immediately, knowingly, accurately [...]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 2:39 pm in baby baby baby, just me | 4 Comments »
pediatrician appointment
Went to the pediatrician today for the 4-week appointment. Our boy is 8 pounds 3 oz. Go baby grow!
I brought with me our whole long list of concerns — Are we overfeeding him? Did his belly button heal okay? When should I pump breastmilk? How often should we be doing “tummy time”? What about that [...]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 8:37 am in baby baby baby | 3 Comments »
to sleep, perchance to whine
Muddling through Christmas time with my Jewish family in town from So Cal and our little Christmas tree and the presents underneath and me with so little sleep and the weirdest naps are the ones when I fall so deep that I dream for a second.
The boy is sleeping now, in his big ole’ rainforest [...]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 10:37 pm in baby baby baby | 2 Comments »
guest blogger appreciation day
I just wanted to take today’s post to say thank you again to the wonderful bloggers who guested on this site!
I had no idea, on Saturday, November 24, when I sent out that email at around 6 a.m., to a few of my parent blogger colleagues asking for a little input to keep my site [...]