So close to a different sort of life.
Tonight is our last night at 66 Bell Street. I'm sure that I'll experience a whole bunch of emotions as I lock the door tomorrow and turn over the keys to our renter later this weekend, but until then, there is way too much to do.
Mostly I'm just really EXCITED to move on. I'm excited to live on First Hill, so close to Capitol Hill, Central District, Downtown, AND the International District. I'm excited to have new restaurants at our disposal. I'm excited to meet new neighbor friends. I'm excited to have ROOMS. I'm excited to be able to entertain again, and even let people stay past Niko's bedtime. I'm excited to have overnight out of town guests. I'm excited to be able to get intimate with my husband without feeling stress about waking Niko. I'm excited that the cat won't get almost-kicked for waking Niko up again and again. I'm excited that our little dude gets his own room that he'll eventually sleep in, sometimes. I'm excited to DECORATE!
And I am SO VERY STOKED to have a desk again! I have been without a place to sit and write my thoughts in the evening for 3 years now. Buster and I have shared a desk... and this means that mostly he uses the desk because I don't work in technology so don't have anything more than personal business to attend to at home, so when he's busy at the desk, I'm never going to bother him. This means that I am always massively behind on email, journal posts, ztb posts, niko's posts, photo uploading (not including my iphone photos)... everything. I often don't write back to people because I read things on my phone so on the fly... and then I forget to respond... and then I flake... it's not a good situation! Thanks to everyone who is nodding their head right now because they know I haven't gotten back to this or that. I hope you won't have to be so patient with me in the future!
I'm a little worried about leaving Niko with our doula for the weekend. He has never been without us for more than 18 hours... and those 18 hours did not go well. Of course, he was only 5 months old at the time- just experimenting with food and still waking up every hour. He is much more of a man now, waking up every 2-4 hours and eating lots of food. Hopefully he won't get too angry with bottles offered in the middle of the night. He will be in loving and experienced hands. I think the experience will probably be really good for him. Worst case scenario, I am right up the street and will happen by for nursing at bedtimes.
Best case scenario? I get EVERYTHING unpacked/baby proofed by the time I return to work on Monday. Extra points for art hung, but I'm not gonna press my luck.
Mostly I'm just really EXCITED to move on. I'm excited to live on First Hill, so close to Capitol Hill, Central District, Downtown, AND the International District. I'm excited to have new restaurants at our disposal. I'm excited to meet new neighbor friends. I'm excited to have ROOMS. I'm excited to be able to entertain again, and even let people stay past Niko's bedtime. I'm excited to have overnight out of town guests. I'm excited to be able to get intimate with my husband without feeling stress about waking Niko. I'm excited that the cat won't get almost-kicked for waking Niko up again and again. I'm excited that our little dude gets his own room that he'll eventually sleep in, sometimes. I'm excited to DECORATE!
And I am SO VERY STOKED to have a desk again! I have been without a place to sit and write my thoughts in the evening for 3 years now. Buster and I have shared a desk... and this means that mostly he uses the desk because I don't work in technology so don't have anything more than personal business to attend to at home, so when he's busy at the desk, I'm never going to bother him. This means that I am always massively behind on email, journal posts, ztb posts, niko's posts, photo uploading (not including my iphone photos)... everything. I often don't write back to people because I read things on my phone so on the fly... and then I forget to respond... and then I flake... it's not a good situation! Thanks to everyone who is nodding their head right now because they know I haven't gotten back to this or that. I hope you won't have to be so patient with me in the future!
I'm a little worried about leaving Niko with our doula for the weekend. He has never been without us for more than 18 hours... and those 18 hours did not go well. Of course, he was only 5 months old at the time- just experimenting with food and still waking up every hour. He is much more of a man now, waking up every 2-4 hours and eating lots of food. Hopefully he won't get too angry with bottles offered in the middle of the night. He will be in loving and experienced hands. I think the experience will probably be really good for him. Worst case scenario, I am right up the street and will happen by for nursing at bedtimes.
Best case scenario? I get EVERYTHING unpacked/baby proofed by the time I return to work on Monday. Extra points for art hung, but I'm not gonna press my luck.