Aaargh! This week and last week have been crazy. My sweet Hubby worked late almost every day last week, missing dinner several times and not getting home until either shortly before or an hour after the kids’ bedtime. Then Sunday he flew out to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention (NAB) and [...]
Henry turned two weeks old on Monday, and life is going well. You know, he’s generally a pretty happy little guy. He sleeps at the right time of day (night actually) and for decent lengths of time, is pretty content during the day, and doesn’t spend long swaths of time doing weird things like crying [...]
Yay! He’s out. Phew! I can sleep on my stomach again, which is clearly the most important point in this entire story. Want to see a picture (of the baby, not me sleeping on my stomach)? Meet our newest monkeyhead (as his Daddy has started calling him already), Henry George Shubin: Henry was born yesterday [...]
Actually, I was ready before, but I’m really ready now. Yesterday I cleaned all three bathrooms, swept the floor downstairs and vacuumed downstairs (notice mopping was not involved with any of this), and did all the laundry. Today I cut all five of the kids’ hair (I always know it’s haircutting time when Georgie starts [...]
Okay, any time now would be good. Like now. Or in ten minutes. Or now. The midwife came yesterday and I’m 3cm dilated and 60% effaced. This is good in that something is going on and that I’m already done with the early phase of labor before I’ve actually gone into labor. On the other [...]
Well, a week later I’m starting to finally feel human-y again. Kind of nice since I’ve only been sick for a week!!! Urgh. Of course, now Trinity is sick. When we had this nastiness two or three weeks ago, she and I and Georgie were the only ones who didn’t get it. Apparently, the bug [...]
And I thought I had managed to avoid the flu when everyone else had it a few weeks ago. Apparently not! I started feeling a bit crummy on Thursday and was full on fever, cough from hell, runny nose, misery, insomnia (worse than the normal 38 weeks pregnant insomnia) by Friday. This is pretty much [...]
Friday morning Hubby and I distributed small children all over town and were back home by ourselves by around 11am. We spent two whole days just the two of us, and it was heavenly. The house was clean (thank you, Tanya, for cleaning my downstairs carpet last week) and is bizarrely quiet with no children [...]
Last night was the baby shower for our new little guy, and it was wonderful! Since we weren’t expecting to have another baby at all and haven’t had a boy baby in nearly ten years, our pile ‘o stuff was a bit thin. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying shopping the Gymboree sales for actual proper clothes [...]
Clear! No broken arm. Phew! Messing with a two year old with a cast sounded rather miserable for all involved. George is recovering but still not quite all together so I took Faithy to the radiologist. It occurred to me that she would probably need someone to stay in the room with her and they [...]
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