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post #41 of 162
12/8/09 at 1:10am
we've been busy purging, cleaning, etc. I feel like it will never be done.

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post #42 of 162
12/8/09 at 1:56am
baking
having a conference with my DD's high school math teacher.



by the way, we talked about the pickle thing with Carolin and she laughed! She never heard of it, thought it was pretty funny! We will probably end up looking for a pickle ornament and send it home to Germany with her for some good laughs!
Thanks for the tip.
post #43 of 162
12/8/09 at 3:09am
Bah humbug. I love, love, LOVE the holidays, but the light is killing me. I'll be enjoying the sun in Colorado by this time next week!

Anywho, the babe is getting pretty vocal and insistent as she gets bigger. Lately she MUST be facing away from me when I'm dressing her on the changing table. Apparently turning from the hips, through the shoulders, and craning her neck to look behind her while grunting, "Nngruu! Nngruu!" is her way of saying, "Mother, may I please face the other way so I may gaze upon the changing pad cover which you so lovingly made for me in anticipation of my arrival?"

We are also trying (and failing) to establish a more age-appropriate bedtime. I'm beginning to think she's just too young for a bedtime. She very nicely goes to sleep at 8, but wakes up with gas and a LOT of spit up by 9. And then she's up till 11, which is the part we've been trying to avoid. I nurse her before 8 the same way I nurse her all night, and all night she has no gas, no spit up, and no trouble sleeping. The only real trouble I see is that when we get to CO, she's going to be sleeping from 1am to noon in a family of early risers. She and I will be up by ourselves from 8pm to 1am. Lame.

Holiday traditions let's see. . . We paint new Christmas tree ornaments every year. That's fun. I insist on decorating the day after Thanksgiving, and we take everything down usually the day after Christmas. DH's family leaves the tree up until that section of the church calendar is over, but everything is usually a dried up dirty fire hazard by that point.
post #44 of 162
12/8/09 at 4:29am
Sarah, if you're doing an over night flight to get there, she may adjust better than you think to the time change. As for age appropriate bedtimes, DD didn't have one until she was 3 and in preK two mornings a week!

Jenn
post #45 of 162
12/8/09 at 2:37pm
Sarah, it could be worse -- you could be going all the way across the country. Natalie, even up to 18 months would go to Michigan and sleep on Alaska time. Only problem is that Michigan is 4 hours ahead of Alaska. Luckily there was someone to watch the older two while I slept a little late in the mornings.
post #46 of 162
12/8/09 at 5:36pm
My kiddo never slept for more than an hour at a time until she was 18 months, so there really was no such thing as a bedtime for us. Once she hit 18 months, she started sleeping for stretches of 2-3 hours at night (but no longer napping at all) and then by 2.5 when she started preschool, she was sleeping 6 hours at a time so I was putting her to bed at 7pm... and she'd sleep till the wee hours, then she'd be up for an hour or two then back down for 4 to 5 more. So bedtimes weren't ever really on our radar. I was just so blissful when she DID sleep that I didn't care what time it was LOL.

She's just not a sleeper though.... even at 6, it will take her a couple of hours to fall asleep and it's a miracle if I can get 10 hours out of her for the night.
post #47 of 162
12/8/09 at 7:02pm
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My kiddo never slept for more than an hour at a time until she was 18 months, so there really was no such thing as a bedtime for us. Once she hit 18 months, she started sleeping for stretches of 2-3 hours at night (but no longer napping at all) and then by 2.5 when she started preschool, she was sleeping 6 hours at a time so I was putting her to bed at 7pm... and she'd sleep till the wee hours, then she'd be up for an hour or two then back down for 4 to 5 more. So bedtimes weren't ever really on our radar. I was just so blissful when she DID sleep that I didn't care what time it was LOL.

She's just not a sleeper though.... even at 6, it will take her a couple of hours to fall asleep and it's a miracle if I can get 10 hours out of her for the night.
oh wow. so how did you function???
post #48 of 162
12/8/09 at 9:10pm
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oh wow. so how did you function???
I don't remember... as sad as that sounds. It's all a blur to me. I remember my husband would take a night when I was at my breaking point (and I had enough milk pumped) and let me sleep. I'd sleep 4-6 hours uninterrupted and it would recharge me for another couple of months. It was insane. Now, if I get 4-6 hours of sleep, I'm useless LOL It's amazing what our bodies adapt to. I remember being SO sleep deprived at certain times that my husband was contemplating having me hospitalized because he was so worried. Looking back, it sounds so much worse than I remember it being.
post #49 of 162
12/8/09 at 10:12pm
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What day has the least light of the year?
post #50 of 162
12/8/09 at 11:44pm
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What day has the least light of the year?
I've always been told winter solstice is... 12/21.
post #51 of 162
12/8/09 at 11:57pm
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I've always been told winter solstice is... 12/21.
Thanks. Babe is due SUMMER solstice 6/21 so I am WAITING impatiently for days to start getting longer rather than shorter!
post #52 of 162
12/9/09 at 3:05am
Wow! I thought we were way late in starting a bedtime at 3 months old. Oh how little I know about the secret lives of other parents!

One plus about the short days that I didn't expect: fireworks as a before dinner activity. Very cool.


To anyone in Fbx: there's an open mic night at Sipping Streams Tea House this Saturday, and DH and his poet buddies will be reading. Last time Adelaide was pretty quiet until her daddy started reading. She loves to talk back to him. The only other time she made any noise was when she 'sang' (oooooohed) along with someone playing a guitar. So cute!
post #53 of 162
12/9/09 at 3:59am
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Originally Posted by Pinoikoi View Post
What day has the least light of the year?
Winter Solstice is either Dec. 20 or Dec. 21 depending on the year. This year it's on the 21st. After that we will start getting our daylight back.
post #54 of 162
12/9/09 at 5:32am

Young Learners and ABC Preschool

There are changes being considered that would cause both Young Learners Preschool and ABC Preschool to close in Fairbanks. These changes would call for preschools to be under the same regulation guidelines as daycare centers. ABC would have to close due to not having enough bathrooms (they have 1, they'd have to have 2 under the new guidelines). Young Learners would have to close due to lack of square footage by a bit. I've talked with the owner/teacher at Young Learners tonight and she's been looking at spaces for lease. There's nothing available that would allow her to keep preschool affordable for her families.

If you've ever had any parent/child relationship with either of these places, please consider writing a letter regarding why you chose the preschool (price, a traditional preschool (not daycare), philosophy) and I will be glad to get information on where to send it. This needs to be done by Dec. 31st.

I'm heartsick over this.

Jenn
post #55 of 162
12/9/09 at 5:09pm
I really wish I could figure out what is wrong with my daughter and my immune system this year It all started with the car accidents. It seems like since then, we've caught every bug that has gone around. Her and I are both battling yet another virus (so far just fevers... body aches... nothing else has manifested yet). It's only been a couple of week since we were battling the last bug!

We both take supplements and vitamins every day... We both take immune boosters... what gives? I often wonder if our bodies are busy repairing the car accident injuries that it doesn't have anything left for bugs... but I'm not sure how much theory that really holds.

Did I mention I'm sick of being sick? Especially since it's interfering with me getting to my acupuncture appt... which is the only thing that is taking my back pain away.
post #56 of 162
12/9/09 at 6:21pm
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Originally Posted by Icequeen_in_ak View Post
I really wish I could figure out what is wrong with my daughter and my immune system this year It all started with the car accidents. It seems like since then, we've caught every bug that has gone around. Her and I are both battling yet another virus (so far just fevers... body aches... nothing else has manifested yet). It's only been a couple of week since we were battling the last bug!

We both take supplements and vitamins every day... We both take immune boosters... what gives? I often wonder if our bodies are busy repairing the car accident injuries that it doesn't have anything left for bugs... but I'm not sure how much theory that really holds.

Did I mention I'm sick of being sick? Especially since it's interfering with me getting to my acupuncture appt... which is the only thing that is taking my back pain away.
I think this year is just much worse than past years in terms of the number and variety of sicknesses floating around. I am have never been sick this much in my life! It almost feels like I never actually get better, it just morphs into something else I hope you and your family get healthy soon.
post #57 of 162
12/9/09 at 6:26pm
you're telling me! with 4 kids, someone has been sick almost weekly. Again it is my youngest. Stomache bug of some sort. Up all night puking. Sigh.....
post #58 of 162
12/9/09 at 9:09pm
And here I thought it was only our family who was sick all the time this year.....I feel exactly the same: Sick of bring sick, never really all the way healthy before the next bug hits, etc.

We had a big health scare with DS at the beginning of the year (what we thought was a stomach bug turned out to be something much worse), then several colds; I had some kind of a 24-hour-flu about the same time each month in June, July and August, and then we all caught the swine flu.
We were just getting over it, when I caught a stomach bug which lasted a few days, then a bad cold again, which I passed on to DS .....DS and I are getting better, but now DH has caught it from us.....will it ever end?
post #59 of 162
12/10/09 at 1:56am
Hey, everyone!!

I'm so sorry to hear about how many are having health issues. We were lucky to get through the major flu season with just two nights of puking (one night each for two kids), and some lethargy. Our dojang DID have a few kids come down w/ swine-flu like symptoms, including one very active kid who is a good friend of my kids who got actual swine flu, then pneumonia, and was out for a full month. So, we're lucky.

I'm feeling the dark, and it's never bothered me before. I really noticed it when I was talking to DH and realized I NEVER feel like baking bread or pies any more...I just don't feel like cooking, but of course we do have to do that, anyway.

Thank goodness for dark leafy green salads, rice cookers, and crockpots!

Love, p
post #60 of 162
12/10/09 at 6:39am
OMG, Penelope! Who was that? I can think of one person that I haven't seen much of (fabulous black belt, starts with J??) but I could be wrong. Oh, and did A get hurt on Saturday? Another A said she did but she didn't look injured to me so maybe they were joking....?? B is looking forward to the party on Friday.

Got a new computer (my Christmas present from DH!)

Jenn

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