November Thread for May 2004 Mamas - Page 3

[emmalola]

I love the smilie parades. They make me happy.

Sweets was very nice to me yesterday, and then came home just now in a foul mood again. And his idea of entertaining the baby? hold him in his lap until the baby starts to fuss, then hand him back to me. The idea that the baby is bored watching him answer emails just doesn't compute. Oh well. I keep reminding myself that we're partners for life, so irritation now isn't the end of the world because I know it will all average out somehow. i hope.

heather, I'm sorry about the doula problems. I have a similar problem with my new mommy volunteer- there's a program here where they send out volunteers to help with new babies. My volunteer has a toddler who's just starting to walk so my volunteer spends most of her time with me trying to keep her daughter from falling down our two steps (into the sunken living room). But she's a volunteer, so I can't really complain, you know? And it is nice to have some company once a week.

[jstar]

yay for smilie parades.

i'm trying not to be adversarial with my dh. he just got home and the new mode is to critique all of the landscapers work. i'm just rolling my eyes. they just missed each other by 15 minutes too and i wish he'd just talk to him instead of complaining to me. (alas i am not too stressed about it because *i* like everything they've done so far.)

the drops i was using for the pink eye are fine. phew. and isaac was 39.5 lbs. this is the first time he's been weighed in a long time. he rides in a booster now in our friend's car and dh's truck so it will be nice when he officially hits 40. he'll be in his britax in my car until ebin needs it probably (ie. i think ebin will need it before isaac gets too tall or heavy for it).

ebin is in 18-24/2T stuff now. that would be awesome juice

the nice doc gave ebin a lookover too (eyes, ears). i love the twofer visits. he sounded skeptical when i told him i thought teeth would be popping through soon and said it is usually closer to 7mo. but then looked with his bright light and you could see them right below the gums. oh yeah. i've noticed :

ok off to go see what dh thinks of the deck framing they did today.

[elsanne]

oH JSTAR I wanted to comment on Isaac's pinkeye, that sucks badly. I'm glad the drops seems to be working. Glad you like the work the landscapers are doing, anyway, even if dh doesn't!

[Sarah'sMama]

'K, I have *no* idea why the smilies are acting up for me. I've tried another smilie parade with no luck. It seems to want to put weird spaces in things screwing it all up. For instance, even though I clicked on the proper smilie, in the text it appears like this :boyb aby with no way to take out that self-imposed space. All I want is to make beautiful smilie art. Why oh why won't it let me? :

[Sarah'sMama]

Gonna have to try tomorrow. Smilies are driving me batty!:

[elsanne]

Can't knock ya for trying, girl!

[jstar]

there wasn't much negativity about the deck progress made today so phew! he was freaked because some of the fence posts weren't set in concrete. and some were : i don't know what their logic was. my favorite part is that we got privacy fencing for the parts open to the sidewalk. and neato river rock pathways. i need to take some 'progress' pics.


we have hit a bedtime groove

i've decided to ask our babysitter for 2 regular days a week. i realized trying to save that cash is futile because i can't actually get any real work done unless i leave the house. i'm just going to go do my work at doug's office.

i can't believe it is only 9pm. woooot.

[fiddlefern]

EL- I unfortunately find that when I'm annoyed at my dh, trying to remember the big picture doesn't work for me at all. But I commend you for trying.

Sherri- it's still cool art, and easy to mentally fix the silly computer problems and see what you were driving at.

Ooooooooooooooh Heather, I am so annoyed for you, both by the dh and the doula. I'm gonna have to have another talk with Mama God. Apparently my message didn't go through.

I think there are many work sites which either can accommodate children, or actually be benifitted by the presence of children. The group home where I work is one of them (though the group home I'll probably be transferred to is not). I do not think the home of a brand new postpartum mom with her own brand new nursling is a place for someone else's children. I most certianly do not.

Oh, and I hear you jstar on not being able to work from home. Tried it. Gave up.

Why am I still up when I know my kids aren't on the new clock yet?

[orangecanoe]

Love the smilie art!!

The pp doula saga continues....the doula who was at the birth might be available. At least I know I like her! SIL saved the day today and is taking the day off work to take the girls.

4am is not a good wake up hour...just saying...

[Sarah'sMama]

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Welcome Henry!

This message was brought to you by the amazing Claudia. She really *does* know everything! Thanks TC!

[elsanne]

Originally Posted by jstar

i can't actually get any real work done unless i leave the house. i'm just going to go do my work at doug's office.

I so hear this. I pack up my laptop and go downtown to my fave cafe, have an incredible cappuccino and sometimes two, and "work". It does not feel like work, especially when friends are coming in and out. The networking opportunities afforded by my "office" downtown are incredible, though--and have done great things for my world.

Working from home, which I tried for many moons and still believe in the idea, means I am not focused when I need to be. I try to justify it by saying, with an office job, on an off day, I will dink around just as much as if I was at home, and at least here I'm doing something I'd like to be doing instead of just dinking around in an office.

Must go because girls are needful.

[DucetteMama21842]

Off to vote in a couple of hours. Am I weird to enjoy doing that? DH and I make a night out of discussing the options, weighing our choices and praying about what feels right. Some things are apparent to us and we feel strongly before we even get our ballots- but this year was a little more challenging. I'm a dork to probably think that our vote will make a difference... but if EVERYONE did then it really would. I try to get people to vote all the time. What I NEED to do is find out if midwifery is A-legal or legal and try to make sure our status is protected in my state. That would be something I should devote time to ... when I have it. : :

TC- Adorable little walker! I can't believe how fast time flies.

Heather- Seriously sending you some vibes of peace so you're house can become "normal" as quick as possible and you can put your feet up and REST!

Glad the smiley situation got fixed.. And that all construction projects are making beautiful headway. Would love to see some pics!

Gotta get off my butt and get ready for my math test! :

[orangecanoe]

probably not voting this year for the first time ever...no good races anyway...:

pp doula sitch resolved--phew!

anyone want to come over and teach me how to get HJ in the moby??

[elsanne]

Heather, I would come over and play with HJ, but I have no idea about Mobies.
I'd come over and play with you!

I'm uploading a video to youtube, finally, the first one ever, of us dancing, and I'll link to it after that. It's not the first video I have of us dancing but it's the only one I have of recent stuff.

Now at said cafe, enjoying the world's best cappuccino and putting off other work. Gah.

[TurboClaudia]

woohoo on pp doula sitch, Heath!

woohoo on youtube, els!

new video of stefan playing peekaboo with his bib this morning coming soon on youtube.

oh, and i took pics of the beach house and will upload them to somewhere later and link here.

~claudia

[elsanne]

Also wanting to say yippeee yi yay for a good pp doula, Heather! I think about you so much, much more than I write out responses for.

[jstar]

elsanne i took your inspiration and am sitting at the bagel shop doing work. work not mdc right?? oh yeah. no really, i've been here 10 mins and have taken a work call and sent an email groovy!

phew on the pp doula front

[emmalola]

I need to start working from someplace other than home. I get sucked into the internet and never get anything done. story of my life. And I eat too much.

Wierd day- I got word this morning that my uncle's best friend, this guy who is pretty lecherous and wierd, but still mellow and likeable, died over the weekend. He's the same age as my dad, which is wierd. He died on his birthday no less. Just totally wierd. We were just trying to figure out how to make sure he wasn't invited to Thanksgiving dinner because he always makes us wierdly uncomfortable. And now we don't have to worry about that. The oddest part? I'm half relieved and half sad he's gone. I feel really bad for my uncle, because they have been best buddies for all of eternity. But I can't get it into me to be just plain sad for his death. very, very strange set of emotions today.

hey! I figured out youtube this weekend too! I did a little teeny video of the peanut and posted it. My internet connection is totally wonky today, but I will try to remember to post it to another place soon.

heather- I will totally stop over and show you the glorious Moby. If I could. How far are you from Santa Fe?

going to the dentist soon. very nervous- it's been a year and a half. My teeth are hurting but I think that's all just nerves. (ha! very funny pain pun!)

[TurboClaudia]

playing peekaboo with his bib

[KKmama]

I just got back from an u/s on my illustrious ovary. Not the news I was hoping for (that all the pain I've felt the last few months was the cysts rupturing and going away)... I now have 3 cysts (last summer, was down to 2). One bigger than the last u/s. One multi-chambered. One is hemmoragic (spelling? it's bleeding). My ob will be calling me this afternoon, hopefully, but I think she's going to push for lapro. We can do the lapro if we do the COBRA, but I haven't exhausted my "natural" options yet (translation: I haven't made an appt with the "good" acupuncturist someone told me about). Ho hum. Someone please tell me what to do. (By the way, I feel like I'm making good strides on the dissertation front...)

But other than that, I really *am* having a good day.