Another month, another baby for the May '04 Mamas! ;) - Page 5

[DucetteMama21842]

Okay- I survived!

Should I tell all now or wait for Claudia?

[DucetteMama21842]

Well... I don't see anyone on anyways.. I'll post when I get back home again... Off to go swimming with the boys

[jstar]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo you have to post nowwwwwww!!!! :

[KKmama]

Having my grumpy lil private time with the computer. I should be pulling weeds or taking a walk, but I'm still grumpy. I swear, each time I have a baby, getting AF again is like going through puberty again.

Danile's secret is that she's trying to become a senior member by this afternoon.

I don't want to make other guesses (of a more personal nature), because I'll be embarrassed (by the personal nature) if I'm wrong.

No WAY are Annabel and W 6 mos old. That totally blows my mind.

I like all the bike talk. We picked up T's new bike today. (I feel a little bag about him having a *new* bike, except it was from Grandpa, and it has a lifetime service guarantee, and dude, it isn't going to be new by the time it's L's turn.) I'm hoping it will be a little cooler here, now that it's August. I just haven't been willing to stuff the little ones in the trailer when it's 95.

I haven't done the rotavirus vax, but I've been through hospitalization for rotavirus (with T). I'm not sure how I feel about it. I guess I may skip it.

I dunno if I have anything to add to the partners with work obligation thing beyond adding that it's something that we squabble about now and again, too. It's hard... there are things which they just cannot miss at work, and I suppose it's hard to have the screws put to you by the mama at home and the boss at work. I don't think Americans have great work/family/life balance, but most of our DPs are not in powerful enough positions to squawk about it too much.

Jacquie, my babes seem to have objected to their first bm poops, so watch out for that next.

Juice, my RL friends and I have been talking about how it really seems to be one of those times of the year when relatives visit (in order to DRIVE. YOU. CRAZY.).

At the rate Lisa is going, she'll be a sr. member in 2011.

We just picked up a salvage range which is so much nicer than our decrepit, ancient range. But I have to clean it. Yuck. The old one will go to scrap metal recycling this weekend.

[KKmama]

Dude, tell all *now*. (I crossposted with you.) *I* am here, and that's all that matters. (My turn to say: it's all about *me*.) :

[Jacqueline]

Yes, and I'm here, too!

And, my milk seems to have come in. Yay!

Off for dinner.

[KKmama]

While I'm here, will someone tell me what happened to my sr. title?

[elsanne]

Danile, I daresay you're relishing the suspense, and a) I demand you tell all NOW, and b) I kind of am enjoying the suspense too!

[KKmama]

Since you're here... how are *you* doing, Elsanne?

[jstar]

i have a lot to say about the partner work balance thing too but not a lot of time. i know doug is going through some jealousy about my time at home right now. totally expected. it is more of an emotional response than a logical thing too. ie. he knows being home with a baby is work but he still sees it as being home = fun. and i readily "let" him go watch baseball/go golfing because i know work time is not self-renewing fulfulling time for him. (i don't have any renewing alone adult time right now but i have a pretty low expectation of it with ebin being so young. i *will* need it and start making it happen pretty soon though.)

i think its ok to be cranky

i need to look up these bike things online. is the peapod a thing for babies? we finally got isaac's bike seat on the back of doug's bike and he is putting new tires on my old schwin....but we have no way to do family bike rides right now.

hospitalization with rotavirus is pretty much my fear (ie. the reason i decided to go with it). i know ebin's exposure probability is pretty much 100% with isaac here.

[KKmama]

It's funny... maybe I'm too blase about rotavirus. I realize it can be serious, and dude, I've seen what hospitalization with rotavirus is about, but the possible rxn to the vax is pretty friggin' serious. I guess I see some of the spotty diseases as being a lot more serious. (And yeah, Z has had it too, I think when he was ~20 months or so, roughly same age T had it.) Has Isaac not had it yet?

[Miss Juice]

kk, someone tried to ddddc you and it wasn't put in properly. sadly, it wasn't me...

danile, DISH!!!! Did it go the right way? and more importantly, WHAT WAS IT?

Jacquie, yay for milk! Don't be surprised if you feel REALLY engorged over the next couple of days.

Gotta run. Fam, ya know.

[elsanne]

KK, you are so sweet for asking. *thousand muahs*

Today has been a great day, very exciting. At rehearsal, i got so "high" off the energy of the dance, the women, the drums, it does amazing things for me. I had some San Miguel Magic moments, where things just flow and people you meet seemingly magically, and somehow you find you have x in common, and whoda thunk...that is the magic of San Miguel. Today I was telling someone about the show and trying to get them to go and they found out that "Billy White" was the oud player, and a friend from Austin knew him and had told her to look him up here in San Miguel, then the next stop to mail a letter, telling person A about the show, a friend, and how Billy White is playing (he is good) and a person whipped around from where they sat at the internet computer and said, I was just trying to email him to find out about the show! blah blah blah...
Pretty wild. And my mother called her estranged brother and ex-best friend after not having spoken with either since the intervention, almost two years ago now.
Then I read on the internet that August is a pretty wild month astrologically, many things moving/changing for the better.

cool!

My drum solo kicked some serious behind today in rehearsal, so I am feeling good about my dancer-ness.

Viet's family is in crisis, which is wild, long story there but sister is in the hospital with a nervous breakdown.

That's the update from San Miguel.

Jacquie I LOVED the photo I could see without registering for Snapfish...need to do so because I want to see them all.!!

[orangecanoe]

kk---ahem, someone tried to give you a ddddc and perhaps despite attempts to contact a mod, nothing was done to fix it. or that's what a birdie told me.

where is that ##%@#% mercury? retrograde or bad karma or something. DH called to say he had to stay way late at work today so still isn't home and packing only half(ass) done and I am tired and grrrr! and all that. C had two mini-events that freaked me out while we were out at dinner/toysrus. : at least she is finally asleep now, but good gravy I've had enough.

my brain is fried and I need to mapquest directions before I forget...

[DucetteMama21842]

I'm baaaaaaack.

[DucetteMama21842]

Bare with me... it's going to take me awhile to post the whole story. I'm staying on and will start typing it right now.

[Miss Juice]

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[jstar]

isaac did have the rotavirus and puked out 3 sets of sheets and many towels. i think the vaccine is given in 4 installments so i guess the tradeoff is potential pukies or 4 installments of farts (?). the whole thing wierds me out anyway. i think i might just go with this 1st installment and skip the rest. ebin will probably still get the virus...but maybe it won't be as bad : i tend to think the vaccines are probably overkill and maybe the first one is enough for say 50% of the population to not get it at all. he still hasn't done a major poop though.

ugh. packing is the worst--the upside is you are going somewhere!!! i had a minor meltdown on friday getting ready for camping. i think my PP anxiety is just about in full swing. i am not feeling bad but i am feeling floaty a lot. sleep deprivation is so swell

danile? danile??????

[DucetteMama21842]

So....

I had a very emotional day today. I conquered a panic attack and tackled a fear that has been running me for seven years.


Seven years ago my best friend was killed. She and I were taking driver's education lessons together and she took her driver's test before me. It was spring break in highschool and she had been staying with me all week. She was recovering from a HORRIBLE breakup of a guy she'd been dating and in love with/engaged for years. (The smut left her for two other girls... : ) anyhow.. This other guy she'd had a crush on had been taking interest in her recently and asked her out on a date the night she got her license. She asked if it would be okay to "ditch" me and go on the date. I said yes... the next morning she called gushing about it and said she wanted to make a long distance trip with her mom to the other side of the state to visit her twin brother in jail... she wanted to meet up afterwards. I said, "Sure.. go- we'll party later." She died on her way back home, being hit by a semi while merging onto a highway. Her mom survived... and I spent months living with her mother and mourning with her. Emotionally I didn't know if I was going to make it through that one. And I know this sounds weird- but that accident TERRIFIED me about taking my driving test... and for a few years- even driving. I refused to take the test. I know it sounds/is illogical... but dying while/after taking it totally freaked me out. The very thought would literally put me into panic attacks.

But I DID IT!!!! I passed the written first try, then I puked right before the drive test from nerves... literally shook during the entire drive test... but I PASSED!!!! The instructor stopped me halfway through and said, "I can tell you are a good driver- but it seems like something is making you really nervous. Calm down sweetheart (he was an OLD man.. not hitting on me)... you're going to be okay. You're doing fine." When we were done and he gave me my score and stuff he asked what was making me so terribly nervous.. I told him and he said, "You'll be fine. You're going to be okay. Just drive safe."

Anyways mamas... the suspense was cool- we should all play guessing games like that once in a while.. I know it wasn't a big deal at all... but it was a huge deal to me. It was a very hard thing for me to deal with... and it's done. I'm so excited, proud and relieved!

Now hopefully none of you want to smack me for getting you so riled up...

[orangecanoe]

C was lucky enough to get rota like 3 times last year! I'm somehow hoping that E didn't get it (I got a big queasy) so maybe she's in the clear? The nurse that runs the playgroup we go to said some kids can be carriers and not get sick, but still get others sick so it's not like you can just avoid the kid w/ the runs/pukies, yk? That is gross nasty stuff. A smell you never ever forget, so I'm guessing those farts are stanky.

gah...should be packing or sleeping or something....