One night as I was supervising the evening piddle, Sparkles was looking forward to stories. I reminded him that we needed to do pajamas next. "Stripy!" he said.

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Sparkles went to sleep early two nights running. We had started bedtime early and it worked perfectly. I thought I saw the clouds parting and the angels singing. Last night was especially amazing because there was still daylight left. It is almost summer solstice, after all. I didn't go to bed early, because I was delirious with freedom, but last ( Read more... )

My vision of becoming a parent included lots of thoughtful musings about the parenting process and waxing lyrical about the amazing things our child was doing. The reality is that I'm always scrambling to keep up with cooking, laundry, and sometimes even cleaning the floor when I'm not actually taking care of the baby. Or I'm at work. Or I'm ( Read more... )

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All cuteness all the time.

After many days of horrible housekeeping, my clean kitchen counter gives me a little thrill every time I look at it.

We had a lovely day.

Slept in but it wasn't a hungry misery for me. Bacon with breakfast. Made substantial food for lunch and tomorrow's dinner.

Baby played with cat's twitching tail while the kitty was distracted with licking my bowl ( Read more... )

I forgot about my pressing need for yogurt!

In my zeal for making a family breakfast these last several weeks, I decided to alternate oatmeal and boiled eggs with toast and yogurt (plus fresh fruit and sometimes veg also). My plan was for there to be as little decision-making as possible, except that I might, if I felt like it and the kitchen was ( Read more... )

How I placated Sparkles last night. (His other mother was out VERY late and I was desperate.)

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After at least a year of obsessing about exercise way more than I actually do it, I finally got out of my rut. Did I get up extra early and garden? No. Did I wander through the leafy green woods? No. Yoga? Nope. Dancing? Nah ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Adoption Day, in which I became a full, legal parent to the child I helped bring into the world. I don't have time to say much, but I will say that it is such a relief to be legal. I would resent having to jump through these hoops far more if the process had been more difficult or tentative, but it was truly routine and not all that ( Read more... )

Of course adorableboy pinned me to the bed. When I went upstairs he was crying and Jen was completely zonked and begged me to find out what was wrong.

What was wrong was that no-one was playing with him. I fixed that. So much smiley cuteness!

So of course I left for work too late to go through the woods. That's OK. The middling length walk to work ( Read more... )