Heh.
So I was going to start posting/reading more... and then I disappeared. Like I kind of forgot that LJ existed for a week or so. Oops, oh well. I'm here today. I skimmed the friends list. I'm making a (half-hearted) effort.
New and exciting in my life (and likely totally uninteresting to non-parents): I finally sleep-trained the baby. He's over a year old, but he's still "the baby." I bit the bullet and let him cry himself to sleep a few nights and now two weeks later I can't believe I didn't do this earlier. He goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 now with virtually no argument, and I now have a couple of hours TO MYSELF in the evenings AND a full eight hours of sleep each night. This has improved my quality of life IMMEASURABLY. I used to sit in the recliner with him for hours, waiting for him to fall asleep of his own accord, and when he DID fall asleep, he'd either wake up as I tried to transfer him to his crib or he'd sleep for a few hours then wake up and want to be snuggled for hours AGAIN. I was exhausted, he was exhausted, and I was starting to not like him very much. Now, part of the problem was his six-month-long cold (with periodic more serious and more painful infections) but much of the problem was that I wasn't willing to let him cry for various reasons. So glad I got over that hangup.
Anyway, now that he's sleeping well I find myself having occasional crazy thoughts about having another baby. Which, trust me, isn't going to happen because we absolutely can NOT afford the daycare costs of another child, and I really REALLY want to enjoy having time to myself... but when my babies are being cute and generally un-cranky, I think, "We should have five more!"
I MUST RESIST.
Other than that, really, I don't have much of anything interesting going on. I've been trying to do more art now that I have time to myself in the evenings, AND trying to get up early enough to drop the kids off at daycare early so I can work out in my office's (free) gym. I was REALLY bad sick for a couple of weeks - a sinus infection that just wouldn't quit - and after a SECOND run of antibiotics I think I'm finally on the mend so I can resume with working out. I've always had a fantasy of being a runner, and I think... I might... try to make that happen.
Anyhoo. Gotta scrub the two-almost-three-year-old and get her into her jammies.
New and exciting in my life (and likely totally uninteresting to non-parents): I finally sleep-trained the baby. He's over a year old, but he's still "the baby." I bit the bullet and let him cry himself to sleep a few nights and now two weeks later I can't believe I didn't do this earlier. He goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 now with virtually no argument, and I now have a couple of hours TO MYSELF in the evenings AND a full eight hours of sleep each night. This has improved my quality of life IMMEASURABLY. I used to sit in the recliner with him for hours, waiting for him to fall asleep of his own accord, and when he DID fall asleep, he'd either wake up as I tried to transfer him to his crib or he'd sleep for a few hours then wake up and want to be snuggled for hours AGAIN. I was exhausted, he was exhausted, and I was starting to not like him very much. Now, part of the problem was his six-month-long cold (with periodic more serious and more painful infections) but much of the problem was that I wasn't willing to let him cry for various reasons. So glad I got over that hangup.
Anyway, now that he's sleeping well I find myself having occasional crazy thoughts about having another baby. Which, trust me, isn't going to happen because we absolutely can NOT afford the daycare costs of another child, and I really REALLY want to enjoy having time to myself... but when my babies are being cute and generally un-cranky, I think, "We should have five more!"
I MUST RESIST.
Other than that, really, I don't have much of anything interesting going on. I've been trying to do more art now that I have time to myself in the evenings, AND trying to get up early enough to drop the kids off at daycare early so I can work out in my office's (free) gym. I was REALLY bad sick for a couple of weeks - a sinus infection that just wouldn't quit - and after a SECOND run of antibiotics I think I'm finally on the mend so I can resume with working out. I've always had a fantasy of being a runner, and I think... I might... try to make that happen.
Anyhoo. Gotta scrub the two-almost-three-year-old and get her into her jammies.