JJ: More peaceful times. Good times with friends yesterday. And I think I can let go, a little bit, of a fear I had...I was afraid he was attracted to one of his coworkers and that something would happen with her...he might feel some attraction to her but I don't think anything will happen with her. We had a brief conversation about it a couple of days ago, and I feel better because of it. But I've been feeling vulnerable and insecure because we haven't been able to have sex for 5 weeks now because of my c-section. I am missing him. It's about time we got back to it.
Merryn: Her speech therapist came today. She is making so much progress. So many words, and such a strong-willed and funny little personality. We went to the park today and she scooped up a shovel-full of sand, held it up and said "sand!" and then "accidentally" spilled it, over and over again. I played along with her, saying, "This time I'm sure you won't spill it--ohhh nooo!" "Okay, for sure this time--ohhh noo!", which made her giggle. She's a little comedian.
James: Our peanut. Nice quiet day, nursing for a long time, slept next to me on the couch for half an hour.
Amy: Tired, of course. Wishing for exercise and some stimulation, wish I could go to the city. But I think both of those will be hard for a long time.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Gonna try to do this
Blogging has not exactly taken off for me. However, I'm going to try again. I put the icon on my google page, for one, and for two (?), I'm going to try to achieve a simple goal: at least one sentence for me, JJ, Merryn, and James, every day. So, here I go:
JJ: We had a nice night with Catherine last night, and today's been good as well. I like these moments of peace and warmth...it's not always that way.
Merryn: I didn't get to spend enough time with her today. She went to daycare this morning, and when I picked her up, I had to leave immediately to take James to the doctor. So we only had maybe one hour together tonight. She's trying out more and more words: puzzle, hold, on, off, hot dog (!!)...two syllable words usually come out as the first syllable only, but we get the point. She still likes James (Baby!) but I think she's a little mad a me. She wants to be able to hug me or get help from me whenever she wants, and when I'm nursing the baby I can't help her. Tonight she lay on the floor crying at bedtime and didn't want to get in bed, I think because I was sitting on the bed nursing James. I thought that would be a good way to give time to both of them, but it didn't really work. At least we have our music class tomorrow, so that should give us some quality time together.
James: Sweet baby, lots of cuddling with him and feeding him all day. But I forgot how hard breastfeeding is. And I'm amazed by how much he wants to eat. Today I took him to the hospital to get his hips checked out, as requested by Dr. Roye, the pediatrician. I arrived at the hospital only to realize I had left the prescription at home. They tried to call our pediatrician to get the prescription faxed over, but their office was closed for lunch, and by the time they re-opened about an hour later the hospital told me I had to reschedule my appointment for 4:30 pm. So I drove back home--30 minutes--, where I looked all over for the missing prescription. Guess where I found it...oh yes, in my purse, which I'd had with me the whole time.
Amy: I'm tired. Bone tired. And I'm stressed because tomorrow I'm supposed to go to a meeting at the Internationals office and I haven't been able to pump much milk, so I'm not sure how that will work. And I was supposed to read a document to prepare, and was just about to print it out but realized it was 81 pages, oops!
There, I did it. Enough for now.
JJ: We had a nice night with Catherine last night, and today's been good as well. I like these moments of peace and warmth...it's not always that way.
Merryn: I didn't get to spend enough time with her today. She went to daycare this morning, and when I picked her up, I had to leave immediately to take James to the doctor. So we only had maybe one hour together tonight. She's trying out more and more words: puzzle, hold, on, off, hot dog (!!)...two syllable words usually come out as the first syllable only, but we get the point. She still likes James (Baby!) but I think she's a little mad a me. She wants to be able to hug me or get help from me whenever she wants, and when I'm nursing the baby I can't help her. Tonight she lay on the floor crying at bedtime and didn't want to get in bed, I think because I was sitting on the bed nursing James. I thought that would be a good way to give time to both of them, but it didn't really work. At least we have our music class tomorrow, so that should give us some quality time together.
James: Sweet baby, lots of cuddling with him and feeding him all day. But I forgot how hard breastfeeding is. And I'm amazed by how much he wants to eat. Today I took him to the hospital to get his hips checked out, as requested by Dr. Roye, the pediatrician. I arrived at the hospital only to realize I had left the prescription at home. They tried to call our pediatrician to get the prescription faxed over, but their office was closed for lunch, and by the time they re-opened about an hour later the hospital told me I had to reschedule my appointment for 4:30 pm. So I drove back home--30 minutes--, where I looked all over for the missing prescription. Guess where I found it...oh yes, in my purse, which I'd had with me the whole time.
Amy: I'm tired. Bone tired. And I'm stressed because tomorrow I'm supposed to go to a meeting at the Internationals office and I haven't been able to pump much milk, so I'm not sure how that will work. And I was supposed to read a document to prepare, and was just about to print it out but realized it was 81 pages, oops!
There, I did it. Enough for now.
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