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Am down today. Overwhelmed, frustrated, bluesy. I know part of it is my lack of success with Gideon's sleeping plan (he's waking up every hour and sometimes screaming for hours in between). Hitting a hurdle like this as …
So, last night was our first night of teaching Gideon to go to sleep without nursing. I tanked him up with milk in a well lighted room before tooth-brushing and then took him to the nursery to put him to sleep. At first …
I did indeed get out the camera yesterday and exercise my shutter finger. I am calling these Gideon's 9 month portraits. Thought I'd share them with you all. He was so fun to photograph this time. Somehow he suddenly le…
The baby is cutting another tooth. Just when his most painful tooth so far finally broke through the skin he finds himself wrestling through another one. Thankfully, I discovered an alternative to Tylenol (infant Ibuprof…
I didn't get sick. And this morning I feel fine. I think it must have just been a little lingering pork hangover. I react to pork sometimes. I get horrendous headaches and feel a little sick to my stomach. Weird, I know.…
Slept in this morning. A woke up alone, made himself breakfast, found his own clothes and snuck out of the house to give me a little more rest. Such a wonderful, casual luxury. I woke up at 9 something when the baby sta…
I'm not much of a caffeine user but, sometimes, it has its place. Today is a very good day to start with a big coffee. I'm sinking slowly under this cold stuff I caught from the kids. I have an awful sinus headache and …
And today its also sweltering. The high yesterday was 103 (92 indoors). So much for our supposed "central air conditioning." I don't think its working. So while we wait for the landlord to decide which repairmen to cal…
Remember me? We're back and running. Our plane got in last night at 7 something in New York and we jetted for the parking lot, stuffed the kids in the car, lobbed the luggage vaguely at the trun…
Been running a little low on motivation or a little high on it or something. I'm full of a million ideas, a To Do List longer than my arm, and a touch of stress and lack of time to add to the mix. The interior design b…

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