Superwoman

[judecorp]

Yesterday I did about a bazillion loads of laundry while entertaining an infant. At one point I even carried one of the overflowing laundry hampers down into the basement while wearing said infant in front of me with her legs "sitting" on the mound of laundry. I feel accomplished for doing that, but it was largely unsafe and I will never do that

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[oddharmonic]

I've never really been into Valentine's Day. I did, however, do something clever last year: I hit Barnes and Noble for post-holiday sale browsing and picked up cute not-licensed-character Valentines to use this year for a song, along with decorations for future class party use. It was nice to find I had enough decorations this year to share with classrooms that don't have a class parent.

I am curious to see how Punk does on her first big vacation. Laurel traveled well as a baby, but we didn't do the first amusement park visit until she was 4.

[judecorp]

She did really well when we went to SC for Christmas, I was impressed. She was awesome on the planes and she slipped right into nice routines at my brother's house. But we weren't terribly active, you know? We didn't try to go anywhere major and we certainly didn't stay out all day.

I just hope she finds a way to fall asleep while we're out. The idea of her not napping and being miserable makes me super sad.

[calledmara]

come eat buffalo wings with me for Valentines!

[judecorp]

Mmmm, trashy Valentine's date! Bring it on!

I'm actually supposed to have wings tomorrow with some friends. Makes me think of you!

[estrange]

Gus will love Disney! We took D when he was 4 months and just got back with M & they both loved it. Make sure to take her on Small World. Now is a great time to go too because the lines aren't bad at all! If you can, try to go to a Pirate & Princess party at Magic Kingdom - it costs a big more but there are hardly any people & no lines for rides! I loved it!

[judecorp]

I was wondering if you can take babies on Small World. Jen was worried that they wouldn't allow her on anything, but I was thinking we probably could do those things. I think she will have fun with lots of things to see... but she is soooo squirmy. We'll have to see how it goes.

I just wish she would sleep in strollers or wraps. If she doesn't nap all day we'll have hell to pay!

[estrange]

Actually you can take babies on almost everything! That's why it's so great. You can't take them on the bigger rides like Splash Moutain, etc but there are only a few you can't.

Yeah the nap thing can be hard. Luckily Maia is pretty flexible and just fell asleep in our arms of exhaustion!

[judecorp]

I think she would definitely eventually fall asleep of exhaustion... but she would probably howl for hours before that happened! Maybe in two months things will be different.

disney

[anonymous]

we are venturing to disney world at the end of march for the first time. when are you going? -melissa in columbus

Re: disney

[judecorp]

We're going April 3-5. Too bad we won't overlap!

[stapynam]

i would like to hear your thoughts on love, esp r/t being new parents. i have no idea how to juggle it and it scares me.

[judecorp]

Well, I wish I had good thoughts for you, but I don't. Because I feel like I lost the love while I was pregnant. Or maybe before? I don't even know.

But it's really hard to do anything in the first couple of months when you are nursing/feeding all the time and trying to sneak sleep whenever you can. Things are much more predictable now and I know that if things were better between us we could have lots of opportunities these days. But I don't really know how to repair the damage that was done during TTC/pregnancy and I'm too exhausted and tapped out most of the time to really give it good thought.

I hope you have better luck. xo