random...
musings of a sleep deprived mom...
...huggy bear is 3 weeks now and already showing off his little personality. where taco was all sorts of laid back and chill, huggy bear is, um, spirited? he's gained a chunk of change already (~2 lbs or 1 kilo if you're feeling the metric) and idles the day away sleeping on my chest, eating up a storm and waiting for the next diaper change. he prefers minimal daytime activities ...none of this gallavanting about town i had the luxury of on my first mat leave. all this to rest up for the witching hours. that would be from 6-8 at night and 1-4 in the morning. ack. a few nights ago j1 took him on a tour from kenmore to lynnwood to downtown, all at about 3 am. ai-ah. maybe a bus ride would be more cost effective. i think the 522 runs all night. how suspicious would that look? distressed looking mom in jammies, carrying colicky babe onto bus at 3 am with no clear destination.
don't get me wrong, aside from no sleep, all is going amazingly well - we have two beautiful, healthy, (mostly) happy boys. the sleep thing has me bummed today. meow meow meow.
...still waiting on ezells to open. i have contemplated getting a part time gig there during this maternity leave. j1 is all for it as long as we get free fried chicken. in the meantime we picked up 1/2 a berkshire pig from our csa. yumm yummm. it is all that. the premium was pretty high though and we split it amongst 4 families so at the end of the day we'd do it again but keep it all for ourself. next year, we're going to have to swap out that hot tub for a deep freezer on the back porch. classy.
...from the headlines you'd think the general public had no clue the economy was going to tank. thats exactly what happened whilst i was squirreled away birthing the new babe. emerging from our bedroom cocoon, i've squandered many an hr trying to catch up on the latest events. global economics is far from my expertise. the most helpful explanation i've had so far is from npr and they'll have a followup broadcast on 10.04. the "main street" impacts of this global economic blowup continue to filter down - calif has asked for an emergency $7B to shore up their short term coffers.
so whats a young family to do? our mortgage is fixed. our retirement and college savings funds are long term so should be able to weather ups and downs in the market w/out constant meddling. do i go back to work now so we don't have to dip so far into savings to pay for this leave? stock up on ramen and hide moolah in the mattress? or just sign up the boys for archery. seems like a powerful lobby.
...huggy bear is 3 weeks now and already showing off his little personality. where taco was all sorts of laid back and chill, huggy bear is, um, spirited? he's gained a chunk of change already (~2 lbs or 1 kilo if you're feeling the metric) and idles the day away sleeping on my chest, eating up a storm and waiting for the next diaper change. he prefers minimal daytime activities ...none of this gallavanting about town i had the luxury of on my first mat leave. all this to rest up for the witching hours. that would be from 6-8 at night and 1-4 in the morning. ack. a few nights ago j1 took him on a tour from kenmore to lynnwood to downtown, all at about 3 am. ai-ah. maybe a bus ride would be more cost effective. i think the 522 runs all night. how suspicious would that look? distressed looking mom in jammies, carrying colicky babe onto bus at 3 am with no clear destination.
don't get me wrong, aside from no sleep, all is going amazingly well - we have two beautiful, healthy, (mostly) happy boys. the sleep thing has me bummed today. meow meow meow.
...still waiting on ezells to open. i have contemplated getting a part time gig there during this maternity leave. j1 is all for it as long as we get free fried chicken. in the meantime we picked up 1/2 a berkshire pig from our csa. yumm yummm. it is all that. the premium was pretty high though and we split it amongst 4 families so at the end of the day we'd do it again but keep it all for ourself. next year, we're going to have to swap out that hot tub for a deep freezer on the back porch. classy.
...from the headlines you'd think the general public had no clue the economy was going to tank. thats exactly what happened whilst i was squirreled away birthing the new babe. emerging from our bedroom cocoon, i've squandered many an hr trying to catch up on the latest events. global economics is far from my expertise. the most helpful explanation i've had so far is from npr and they'll have a followup broadcast on 10.04. the "main street" impacts of this global economic blowup continue to filter down - calif has asked for an emergency $7B to shore up their short term coffers.
so whats a young family to do? our mortgage is fixed. our retirement and college savings funds are long term so should be able to weather ups and downs in the market w/out constant meddling. do i go back to work now so we don't have to dip so far into savings to pay for this leave? stock up on ramen and hide moolah in the mattress? or just sign up the boys for archery. seems like a powerful lobby.
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