once she gets on baby foods, have her take you to the commisary. ees CHEAP there. they often even have the gerber organics, if you go that way. i know so many people who are deployed/deploying right now. lame. and yet, amen for USPS flat rate boxes!
tessa is a cutie. and as long as i hold her the right way, we are good buddies, her and i. she is also like 2 or 3 X the size of her newbie pix. its crazy how fast it all happens. my max is wearing 2T clothes, with 12 teeth. remeber leetle max? geeze. i'll try to take some pix when we are in the netherl;ands next week-end of tess for ya.
i think thats one of the hard things about the stay-at-home-mom bit at first. IMHO, anyways, it can be hard to only surround yourself with positive stuff when the negitive is usually so much easier to come by. its like you are now responsible for creating your home enviroment - which is kind of, almost a cool thing - but you have so little resources to do it that you just kind of get swept through the day. does that make sense? anyways, if you avoid banging your head against the wall to the point of concussion in the first 6 months, your doing better than you think. so in the midst of everything else, this is a friendly reminder to cut yourself some slack. ;)
my kidlets are HUGE. serisouly freaking HUGE. i can send you some from shutterfly, i have never figured out how the heck to post them on LJ. you will freak out at their emmense HUGENESS. i am unsure how this happened. i'll e-mail you about journal-ish junk.
weirdly, i don't know a ton of stay at home moms either. i don't know that there is a gauge - beside some resemblence to sanity in the first bit - because every mom and every kid and every household is different. i know what works and doesn't here, but i know that a lot of people do different things, and it works for them, so..*shrug*
if you see it, anne lamot's "operating instructions" is like the best damn new-mom book in the universe.
tessa is a cutie. and as long as i hold her the right way, we are good buddies, her and i. she is also like 2 or 3 X the size of her newbie pix. its crazy how fast it all happens. my max is wearing 2T clothes, with 12 teeth. remeber leetle max? geeze. i'll try to take some pix when we are in the netherl;ands next week-end of tess for ya.
i think thats one of the hard things about the stay-at-home-mom bit at first. IMHO, anyways, it can be hard to only surround yourself with positive stuff when the negitive is usually so much easier to come by. its like you are now responsible for creating your home enviroment - which is kind of, almost a cool thing - but you have so little resources to do it that you just kind of get swept through the day. does that make sense?
anyways, if you avoid banging your head against the wall to the point of concussion in the first 6 months, your doing better than you think. so in the midst of everything else, this is a friendly reminder to cut yourself some slack. ;)
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Yay for Tessa pics! I'd also love to see new pics of your kidlets, but your old journal is gone and you haven't added me back on this one. :-(
Oh, and thanks. :-) I don't know a lot of stay at home mommies, so I really have no gage...
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you will freak out at their emmense HUGENESS. i am unsure how this happened.
i'll e-mail you about journal-ish junk.
weirdly, i don't know a ton of stay at home moms either. i don't know that there is a gauge - beside some resemblence to sanity in the first bit - because every mom and every kid and every household is different. i know what works and doesn't here, but i know that a lot of people do different things, and it works for them, so..*shrug*
if you see it, anne lamot's "operating instructions" is like the best damn new-mom book in the universe.
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