The Checklist!!!
Things I would like to do before having another child:
(in no particular order)
1. Ride a roller coaster. I think the last time was 2003
2. Get more than a little tipsy.
3. Have a girls night out (maybe to go with #2?)
4. Stay somewhere overnight with my husband
4b. Stay at home without Faelyn overnight
5. Visit family in Wyoming
6. Visit family in California
7. Visit family in Maryland
8. Get a new car
9. Sleep
10. Get used to my new job
11. Go out with my mom on a girls day extravaganza
12. Stay somewhere overnight with Faelyn
13. Wean? Faelyn to at least 1 feeding. (Not going to happen before we start trying) ** Mission accomplished Faelyn is now down to one feeding of no more than five minutes at bedtime! Hopefully this will last through Daddy's rehearsals which begin later this month! WOOT!
14. Watch Faelyn do some more amazing stuff. Like turn 2.
So... #4 I think will happen closer to when Baby Precious is due to arrive, so that Faelyn will be at home, without me or Daddy so that it wont come as so much of a shock when she spends a few nights (2-4 depending on delivery method) without Mommy. and #9... what can I say. Sleep just isn't for parents of children under 5. There are so many bonuses though... so we are toughing it out. I am taking more naps these days and the morning wean is helping a little.
We had our first overnight without Fae on Saturday. It was kind of eerie to come home from the movies and have her room be empty. I am not sure I like it one bit to tell you the truth. I missed the girl, the sounds of her breathing over the monitor, the knowledge that she was there. It was not actually as comfortable as I thought. But we both got to sleep until 9 am, which was weird. I have been up every hour or two for the last several nights, so I welcomed the extra sleep and when she came home from Gramama's we made Daddy his birthday breakfast. It was pretty cute. She kept hugging me and hugging me. Gotta love that girl.
So... the next major milestone is really to get through Erik's rehearsal and show process. He will be rehearsal 4 nights a week, meaning he wont come home from work first for three of the 4 and it looks like every Sunday evening is marked for rehearsal - which I am NOT happy about. I don't actually understand why directors in this city cannot manage to have weeknight rehearsals. I have done it for every show I have directed, only occasioanlly called in a weekend day... and I think I have done some good shows. And then before that - never in the history of my 5+ years of acting/directing and other experience in Denver - (And I did do an equity show there) did I ever have weekend rehearsals. It was understood that when you aren't paying folks, or even if you are only paying them a small fee, or even when I got a WEEKLY stipend from semi-professional companies, that people needed to have their weekends for their families until the show opened, as they were most likely carrying a full-time day job. And when it was an equity show - it was the full time day job. I don't know. I just think it can be done and people are too lazy to make schedules in advance, sure they change, but you can at least do a plot and then go back and figure out what you need to do. Oy. Anyway, that may be all I need to say about THAT.
Then he will have either 2-3 or 3-4 shows a week from March through April. Caffiene is doing two shows in rep, so its a little different than usual. We'll see.
Okay. Done bitching and or gushing.