I am falling down in my reporting in that I should be relaying all of these stunning sentences the boy puts together. I should be taking notes at all times. He should have a list. But I don’t take the…
Author: calm mama
jonah’s excellent morning in pictures
First, there were the hats. He’d spotted the hat boxes in the closet yesterday and demanded access. This morning, access granted: He liked the Russian military hat the best. I daresay it was fetching. Later this morning he climbed up…
the sleep consultant experience continued (hook removal)
Are you experienced? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. So, where was I? Oh yes, we saw her again on Tuesday. This time, Jonah came with us. It was kind of an observation visit. We were not going to discuss anything difficult…
sleep update (in which miracles do happen)
One of the reasons I may have been lax at updating all and sundry on the sleep progress is that I feel disconnected from it. It has become Scott’s JOB. Four nights in a row I wasn’t even around for…
the sleep consultant (a.k.a. in which my ego is bruised for the betterment of sleep-kind)
You know, this really should be all about him. But it is about me. In that way that parenthood is forcing a total re-evaluation of my ego, my personality, my (bad) habits. Holy cr*p. Life was so much easier when…
meta, some things, toys
This is one of those meta posts where I break my own storytelling rhythm to fill you in on things. Sort of. Things are certainly better than they were the other night. I had doubts about posting a dark post…
rainbow
It was around 8:15pm when Scott had completely exhausted himself in the effort to put Jonah to sleep and went outside on the front steps to get some air. I saw him head out as I was going into the…
canning sux but other things are nice
So much for my vision of myself as a garden-harvesting fruit-canning supermom. First, we left several bags of plums in the front hall for a week. Hi, spoilage. Then, a few days ago, I culled 2lbs and made jam. It…