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LOCK YOUR KNEES!
Excercise has been a great morale booster. This bedroom is a wreck, but whatever. I'm off to the shower and then to get Sophie up. Lately in the mornings or a half an hour after I've put her down for a nap, I find her huddled with her stuffed animals and blankets carefully placed, surrounding her, and she is chatting away. This morning--not a peep ( Read more... ) -
CLUES
It's still a good forty minutes before people start getting home; the dogs bark; and the girl potentially wakes. I'm sleepy, but I've been online instead of resting or studying. ... This is Louie's late day. I won't see him til after ten ( Read more... ) -
AROMATHERAPY works, and so does the weather.
It is a morning for Sufjan Stevens! And if you walk outside it almost feels like fall! I went skipping down the driveway, with coffee and water bottles for Louie ( Read more... ) -
RESILIENT OR NOT
My two caught some kind of flu Sunday. It looked different in each. But they seem to be on the mends as of this morning and last night. I don't catch things like L, and hopefully the breastfeeding for nearly a year will prove helpful in boosting Sophie's immunity. It seems so already. Maybe it will have pushed her over to my grandfather's ( Read more... ) -
SEND IN THE REINFORCEMENTS
I need increased brain's plasticity, right now! Is there a vitamin supplement for that?
And also, a good book on toddlers because I'm doing my best, but I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. -
THIS WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT L's CLASSROOM
I'm always relieved to find myself on the mat at 5:30 am. It means I've managed in half wakefulness to convince my body to do the rest of me a favor, when what it wants is--more of this lying here. "I just want to lie here." Today I went. There's a sweetness during the pain and when it's over. I've grown to enjoy, even relish practice in a hot, ( Read more... )