LJ ate my post /o\
It was witty and brilliant but it's gone, so I'm going to just recap, before I run out of steam entirely.
BABY!
Fifteen weeks old, sixteen pounds, doubled his birth weight in six weeks, can cram his hands in his mouth, visited us and brought his mother along two weekends ago. My other kids came home in shifts the same weekend, and it was great to have them home again. For one thing, I made them clean out their closets. \o/
Poplar Jackson likes his grandma to sing mournful sea shanties to him to lull him to sleep when he's cranked out. He also likes to pull grandpa's long hair. The stubborn gene did not pass this little guy by, he prefers to nurse when my daughter lies down on a bed, so he can sprawl out. So for a while he was turning up his nose about nursing when his mother was sitting up. He'd arch his back and refuse to nurse, and the day before she brought him down he went on a nursing strike for five hours. She's handling it well, distracts him, usually he'll take a nap and when he wakes up he's forgotten that he refused to nurse earlier.
We all sang him our family anthem, which is "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." (hum along with the Rolling Stones)
Daughter number two moved yesterday to near Washington DC.(University of Maryland), for grad school in Geography, to be a minion research assistant. Today, an earthquake happens. Coincidence? I think not. (She's fine, we called right away. She thought the car she and a buddy had just started up had developed freakish shaking problems but when they turned off the ignition and the car was still shaking, they figured it out.)
Child number three, the boy, seems to have figured out what exactly he'd like to study and is also thinking about grad school. He went to Portugal for the summer on a dig, and met a prof who made noises about offering him a research position after he graduates, if he wants to go to grad school. We'll see.
carodee and I had fun last weekend doing fic_rush. It was kind of like a slumber party that lasted all weekend, and much goofiness and writing was accomplished. I plan on doing it again next month.
So, behind on lots of projects, both fannish and home related. I decided I wasn't going to work this evening on paperwork (mostly because there wasn't anything I really wanted to watch on TV while I did it. Yes, I have a kind of slacker attitude about paperwork, but honestly, you really can do it and watch TV at the same time).
Anyway, with what remains of my free time this evening, I shall work on some Big Bangs.
Laurie
BABY!
Fifteen weeks old, sixteen pounds, doubled his birth weight in six weeks, can cram his hands in his mouth, visited us and brought his mother along two weekends ago. My other kids came home in shifts the same weekend, and it was great to have them home again. For one thing, I made them clean out their closets. \o/
Poplar Jackson likes his grandma to sing mournful sea shanties to him to lull him to sleep when he's cranked out. He also likes to pull grandpa's long hair. The stubborn gene did not pass this little guy by, he prefers to nurse when my daughter lies down on a bed, so he can sprawl out. So for a while he was turning up his nose about nursing when his mother was sitting up. He'd arch his back and refuse to nurse, and the day before she brought him down he went on a nursing strike for five hours. She's handling it well, distracts him, usually he'll take a nap and when he wakes up he's forgotten that he refused to nurse earlier.
We all sang him our family anthem, which is "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." (hum along with the Rolling Stones)
Daughter number two moved yesterday to near Washington DC.(University of Maryland), for grad school in Geography, to be a minion research assistant. Today, an earthquake happens. Coincidence? I think not. (She's fine, we called right away. She thought the car she and a buddy had just started up had developed freakish shaking problems but when they turned off the ignition and the car was still shaking, they figured it out.)
Child number three, the boy, seems to have figured out what exactly he'd like to study and is also thinking about grad school. He went to Portugal for the summer on a dig, and met a prof who made noises about offering him a research position after he graduates, if he wants to go to grad school. We'll see.
carodee and I had fun last weekend doing fic_rush. It was kind of like a slumber party that lasted all weekend, and much goofiness and writing was accomplished. I plan on doing it again next month.
So, behind on lots of projects, both fannish and home related. I decided I wasn't going to work this evening on paperwork (mostly because there wasn't anything I really wanted to watch on TV while I did it. Yes, I have a kind of slacker attitude about paperwork, but honestly, you really can do it and watch TV at the same time).
Anyway, with what remains of my free time this evening, I shall work on some Big Bangs.
Laurie