So, many of the mommies on the pregnancy boards are huge advocates for co-sleeping, which is where you sleep with the baby in the same bed as you.  This is supposely easier for moms to feed in the middle of the night and more natural since it was the way of things for millenium before modern ideas of childrearing developed.  Personally, I am not ( Read more... )

I was thinking this morning that I needed to write down some of my thoughts and lessons from being pregnant.  Things that I didn't think were being addressed by pregnancy books.  So here it goes:

1. Morning sickness is not a joke or even remotely funny.  It is horrible.  If you find something that relieves the morning sickness, you do it!  I don't care ( Read more... )

This morning I am up due to irritation.  My annual review is today.  I talked with Ashley yesterday and she warned be that I am going to get a lecture on using the task list in Microsoft Outlook.  I despise this idea.  It is just another method for the bosses to monitor us.  I know that when it comes down to it I have no choice.  I will be doing ( Read more... )

Well, I finally lost my patience with the meet-up group.  For those who don't know, I am the organizer for an all-women meet-up group.  I inherited the group with the previous organizer got too busy to organize it.  She gave it to me because I was a real go-getter and came to all book clubs with the book read.  I am going to spend the rest of my ( Read more... )

My friend B has a goal of reading 30 books in a year.  I am always so impressed by the width and breadth of what she reads.  Her list plus my book club has really heightened my desire to read a wide variety of books this year.  Instead of counting pages (which is hard to do on the Kindle) or setting a goal,  I thought I would just ask for some ( Read more... )

Since no one is up at the insanely early time of 5 am, I am posting to help my anxiety levels.  When Lars wakes up, I will owe him an apology for the grumpy and restless bed partner he had last night.  I am pretty sure I snapped at him during one of the 90 times I woke up during the night.  I am definitely going to chalk tonight up as some of the ( Read more... )

Well, every recipe can't be a knock out.  Some recipes underwhelm you.  Others require that you dispose of the evidence immediately.  The latter was tonight.  I am now marking Aubergine Pilaff with Cinnamon and Mint off the list of possible dinners.  Sigh . . .

Off to make dinner number 2!

So, I am debating the S&M reunion.  I want to go but . . .

• It costs a lot for almost nothing.  $275 for a couple to do everything, $115 to do almost everything.  Since everything is one slide show, one fancy party, one bar hang out, and one meet and greet with teachers, I am not impressed.  Unless they are planning to plate the teachers in gold, ( Read more... )

First, quick updates:  Got married (yay!!!), bought house (yay!!), did tons of work on house (whew!), moved into house (yay!), slept lots this weekend (zzzz ( Read more... )

I love working for the state.  I have to account for every minute of every day.  I have to maintain a public calendar.  This policy results in multiple e-mails when I set up a business lunch with one of the local folic acid educators.  I know that Lizz is probaby just looking at my schedule for next week.  But one e-mail was not enough to satisfy ( Read more... )