Archive for the 'don't panic' Category
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and then it happened
In improv, I learned a writing game where two people pass a sheet of paper back and forth, each one taking a turn writing a line of dialogue. A third person intermittently calls out bits of stage direction or dialogue, hopefully designed to cause a change in the action of some kind.
If there are many […]
Posted by calm mama on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 am in milestones, sleep, baby baby baby, don't panic | 5 Comments »
sleep interrupted
Yesterday’s noble optimism has been clouded by today’s lack of sleep.
He just didn’t sleep today. From 5 a.m. on. Okay, he took mini naps, nap-ettes at 3 and 5. And wouldn’t go to sleep until after 8, and after exhaustive effort on our part to make it so. Who is THIS boy?
He’s also less and […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm in baby baby baby, don't panic | 3 Comments »
shhhhhh… he’s napping
Well, the let’s sit up and nurse in the night experiment revealed that in fact, yes, I get more sleep if I don’t do that. Nap nursing, here I come back. Not only can the boy nurse on one boob for an hour while I’m sitting up and fading in and out of consciousness, but […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 8:27 am in sleep, ec, baby baby baby, don't panic | 4 Comments »
long, lean, and lanky
He’s over 25 inches long, weighs just a hair shy of 12 pounds. That’s 65th percentile for height/length, and 10th percentile for poundage. But mom, before you call me all worried… he’s fine. Gaining weight at a normal rate and all that. Percentiles are not as important as progress in a forward direction. However, his […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 9:00 am in psychic chiropractor, baby baby baby, don't panic | 4 Comments »
do i shower or do i blog?
The beautiful boy is sleeping in his crib. I’ve already eaten breakfast, checked email. So, now, do I shower or do I blog?
(Well, clearly, you know the answer.)
The thing is, I want to shower. I neeeeeeed to shower. Been in the same giant pink flannel polka dot pajamas for two days. I have yoga class […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am in baby baby baby, don't panic | 4 Comments »
eclipsed
I was driving to pick up take-out Vietnamese food and talking on the cell phone with friend Jenny who informed me about the eclipse that was happening RIGHT THEN.
I was too tired to bother.
After that lovely start to the day, things went south fast. Our toilet exploded water and, er… stuff all over the bathroom, […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am in just me, don't panic | comments »
12 weeks and all is almost well
Once again, I’ve been foiled by hope. I really need to stop expecting things to change on a schedule. Certainly it feels like an accomplishment to have gotten this far. 12 weeks, woo hoo!
But as it always happens, as soon as I hit what seems like it should be a milestone of some kind, someone […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 9:29 pm in psychic chiropractor, baby baby baby, don't panic | 8 Comments »
one of the pluses of being up in the middle of the night
is that I get to toddle about the internet and find out that Mayberry Mom has put an elegant twist on the most recent meme-go-round.
It helps that I (brilliantly) moved my laptop from the bedroom last night (hard to call this “morning” but whatever — work with me, grammarians), to the never-used-for-dining-anymore dining room table. […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 4:20 am in baby baby baby, just me, don't panic | 1 Comment »
cat, knitting, bones, continued (worry optional)
One reason I haven’t posted in the last day-and-a-half:
You may remember where this sweater was a while back:
I’d finished the hood before the boy arrived, but sleeves and button placket seemed an utter impossibility. Between the sheer effort of being present for all the boy’s needs, and my eff’d up wrists… but my wrists have […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 9:01 pm in just me, don't panic | 3 Comments »
vaccination and new baby clothes
Who has time to read the whole book? I read the last four chapters. Well, skimmed. Enough to gather that I should be worried about aluminum in vaccines, and enough to find the two schedules the doc recommends — one very conservative one for when he’s beseeching anti-vax parents to consider a few, and […]