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Oh yeah! Here are a couple of other things I wanted to post about that didn't make it into my previous post.
Ruthie's birthday is two weeks away and I have been obsessing about her party, i.e.: where to have it. I never really thought about the difference between an early-spring birthday like Ruthie's and a late-spring/early-summer birthday like Isaac's. So far I've been able to have all of Isaac's parties in our back yard (*knock furiously on wood*) but I can't assume that Ruthie's birthday, in late March, will be good enough weather for that. So I did a lot of calling around to various places that host parties, and there were some interesting options, but when it comes right down to it, I just couldn't seem to justify spending $200 to rent a place for a 4th-birthday party. So my mom said we could have it at her house, and I guess we're going to do that although I'm highly skeptical about the wisdom of having six or more 4-year-olds running around. I mean my mom's place isn't that big! But OTOH I had all my birthday parties there when I was a kid, and we managed that somehow, so I guess somehow it will work out.
I can see that I'm going to be going through this same dilemma every year, though. Oy!
As for me, I'm tired and lazy and fat. :P I might have posted here about how I've been gaining weight as Ruthie's nursing frequency has been rapidly decreasing. I'm trying to be more careful about my eating, and getting in a bit of exercise (this should get easier as the weather improves) but I still feel sooooo tiiiired. I started taking an iron supplement, and then I forgot about it and stopped taking it, and I think it has made a difference. So I'm starting to take it again. I hope something works at some point.
I feel discouraged because all around me I see other parents doing creative stuff (not related to their work, I mean) and I do nothing. I don't even sing any more. (I dropped out of chorus for this cycle because I couldn't find a reliable babysitter.) I feel like I ought to have more energy and impetus for more non-parenting, non-work stuff than I do. I know it's self-defeating to cover myself in shoulds, but it's hard not to sometimes.
Last week Isaac had homework to write down three things that happened today, three that happened yesterday, three from last week, and then three things that will happen tomorrow and next week. He started off by saying, "well, I like to play Wii every day," so he wrote "play Wii" on all five spaces. Then for tomorrow he wrote "turn this in" (meaning the homework) and for next week he wrote "have homework." My kid is so meta! ;)
Ruthie can write her name and several other words. Recently we went to the zoo, and later that day she brought me the fridge magnet letters Z, O, and another O, and said, "I had fun at the this!" Also yesterday she told me that she's ready to start kindergarten. Alas, she has to wait another year and a half. Oh well.
Ruthie's birthday is two weeks away and I have been obsessing about her party, i.e.: where to have it. I never really thought about the difference between an early-spring birthday like Ruthie's and a late-spring/early-summer birthday like Isaac's. So far I've been able to have all of Isaac's parties in our back yard (*knock furiously on wood*) but I can't assume that Ruthie's birthday, in late March, will be good enough weather for that. So I did a lot of calling around to various places that host parties, and there were some interesting options, but when it comes right down to it, I just couldn't seem to justify spending $200 to rent a place for a 4th-birthday party. So my mom said we could have it at her house, and I guess we're going to do that although I'm highly skeptical about the wisdom of having six or more 4-year-olds running around. I mean my mom's place isn't that big! But OTOH I had all my birthday parties there when I was a kid, and we managed that somehow, so I guess somehow it will work out.
I can see that I'm going to be going through this same dilemma every year, though. Oy!
As for me, I'm tired and lazy and fat. :P I might have posted here about how I've been gaining weight as Ruthie's nursing frequency has been rapidly decreasing. I'm trying to be more careful about my eating, and getting in a bit of exercise (this should get easier as the weather improves) but I still feel sooooo tiiiired. I started taking an iron supplement, and then I forgot about it and stopped taking it, and I think it has made a difference. So I'm starting to take it again. I hope something works at some point.
I feel discouraged because all around me I see other parents doing creative stuff (not related to their work, I mean) and I do nothing. I don't even sing any more. (I dropped out of chorus for this cycle because I couldn't find a reliable babysitter.) I feel like I ought to have more energy and impetus for more non-parenting, non-work stuff than I do. I know it's self-defeating to cover myself in shoulds, but it's hard not to sometimes.
Last week Isaac had homework to write down three things that happened today, three that happened yesterday, three from last week, and then three things that will happen tomorrow and next week. He started off by saying, "well, I like to play Wii every day," so he wrote "play Wii" on all five spaces. Then for tomorrow he wrote "turn this in" (meaning the homework) and for next week he wrote "have homework." My kid is so meta! ;)
Ruthie can write her name and several other words. Recently we went to the zoo, and later that day she brought me the fridge magnet letters Z, O, and another O, and said, "I had fun at the this!" Also yesterday she told me that she's ready to start kindergarten. Alas, she has to wait another year and a half. Oh well.