The day started strong, after another nicely spaced 11 hours of mostly sleeping and some nurse/nappy activities interspersed between, the night before. The trouble started on the changing table around 7:30 a.m. I’m looking down at my boy’s boy parts,…
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it’s a valentine’s sleep-miracle
It’s evening. Husband is out doing errands, due back at 7. He’d come home at 5:30, rocked the boy down to napping before leaving at 6, and the boy woke up again not 10 minutes later. Crying. I tried rocking…
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…
milestones
Today was a day of firsts: 1. Mommy’s first time nursing under a blanket — in car, in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s, and only because the sun was hitting baby in the face and bothering him. 2. I…
i heart date night
We did it. We had our first real date night since baby was born. It took some work, some tenacity, to get there. My parents arrived on Thursday. I began the training then. Started them on diapering and in true…
life serial
Discussion with husband re: how to spend “date night” tonight while my parents are babysitting the boy… Me: Hot tub place or movie? Which do you prefer? Him: I’m not going to say. I want you to decide. Just don’t…
so how was your day?
I got myself invited out to lunch with some of the moms from my new Mothers’ Group. We walked to the restaurant. About 20 minutes, around the lake. It was awkward, me pushing the snap-and-go with its less than smooth…
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…