Archive for the 'just me' Category
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i’m sick (and news of baby’s firsts)
I don’t get sick very often.
I was just going to say that, Scott said.
My nose is running. I have chills. Is this what comes from being around so many people? Probably. I don’t get sick very often. I don’t think I’ve been sick with a baby yet. This will be challenging?
Can I take a night […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 9:42 pm in milestones, baby baby baby, just me | 3 Comments »
follow me into the dark*
Things have been a little rough lately. The sleep debt is apparently cumulative, and my balance received unfortunate bolster from the boy’s recent three-times-a-night wake-up habit. And potentially exacerbated by a rumored-typical hormonal shift at around 6 months.
So I have not been able to perhaps accept with sanguinity the various events that have occurred.
Like me […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm in sleep, baby baby baby, just me | 8 Comments »
the evolution of cocktail conversation
It wasn’t so long ago that I was wildly happy to hold forth on the many virtues, natures, shades, moods, of poo.
Now, if you hadn’t already noticed, my favorite topic is sleep. Deep sleep, shallow sleep, rolling sleep, stationary sleep, sleep positions, sleep locations, sleep accoutrements, sleep schedules, sleep rituals, and on and zzzzzzzzzz….
Last night […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 9:50 pm in sleep, baby baby baby, just me | 4 Comments »
how right she is
So, about that Psychic Chiropractor…
Newer readers of this blog may have missed earlier mentions. Here are a few posts that refer:
knowing and not knowing yet
a-ha moment
babycare class
She doesn’t use the term. She calls herself a holistic healer. But she is a trained chiropractor, uses a “non-force” technique that involves some mighty painful […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 10:32 pm in psychic chiropractor, just me, recipes | 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 »
in memoriam
I’m sitting, well, gliding, in the glider chair, trying to help the boy take his morning nap.
He clearly needs to nap. He’d gotten cranky. He was rubbing his eyes. First I bundled him up in his fleece swaddler, popped in pacifier, and put him in the crib. Will he just fall asleep on his own […]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at 10:52 am in just me | 6 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 »
life just being life
Not much to report. Been waiting for the boy’s head to get bigger. So I, too, can have one of those big-headed babies.
I’m tired. Suddenly realized this tiredness is not going to go away for, like, years.
The boy is still cute. I say that all day pretty much. My god. He’s so cute. I can’t […]
Posted by calm mama on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm in just me | 2 Comments »
some people just don’t get it
I’ve crossed over to the other side.
I used to be one of those people. Blissfully ignorant. Perhaps even a little disdainful. Of what it is to be a parent. Of what it takes to negotiate the world while also negotiating the needs of a small child.
I feel the difference between us strongest when clothes shopping.
The […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 9:44 pm in just me | 6 Comments »
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 […]