lazy days
~ Saturday, March 31, 2007
The lazy man always does twice the work.- Spanish Proverb
Irony of the day...
I was driving through some road works about a week ago & saw what had to be the Poster Boy for inefficiant public service.
A lone neon-vested road worker was shovelling dirt (by hand) into his digger's bucket.
Sigh...
finally
~ Friday, March 23, 2007
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.- Margaret Thatcher, in Observer April 4, 1989
Crack out the Halleluja Chorus.
Wee Man slept throught the night. Which means I slept through the night. For the first time in nearly a year.
Halleluja!
He is 12 weeks old exactly today.
LM was 6½ weeks old when she began sleeping through. But she wasn't sleeping quite as long. Her "sleeping through" was midnight till 6 or 7am. His is around 8pm through till nearly 7am. And he's been regularly sleeping 6 hours straight for weeks now...they've just been too early in the evening for me to benefit from them. However, his previous twice-a-night waking habit had reduced to only once a night over the course of this week. So it hasn't been too bad lately.
Yay for sleep. I'd completely forgotten how wonderful it feels to wake up after a full night's sleep. Hoorah!
In other, equally wonderful news...we have a handover date for the house. On 18 April, the keys will be in our hot wee hands. Hoorah!
It really is a day of good things.
happy anniversary
~ Sunday, March 18, 2007
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.- W. Somerset Maugham
Today is a special sort of anniversary.
One year ago today, Wee Man was conceived.
After over 7 years of secondary infertility due to PCOS and four cycles of Clomid, our precious wee boy came into being on this day in 2006.
It seems almost a lifetime ago now. Well, I suppose technically it is.
And without the Miracle of Modern Medicine™ we would never have been able to have the very much loved & wanted son that we enjoy cuddling today.
So for all of those people out there struggling with fertility issues, my thoughts are with you today. May you have the best of luck and may good news be yours soon.
hug a tree
~ Friday, March 16, 2007
Hippies. They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.- Eric Cartman, South Park
I am rapidly becoming an aging hippy.
We already recycle & reuse containers, compost our kitchen waste, use cloth nappies, use phosphate-free laundry detergent, &, because of the current water restrictions, I've been utilising grey water from the showers to water my pot plants (plants in pots...not pot plants). I've even gone & removed any baby toiletries that contain mineral oil & will be doing the same with the rest of the household's toiletries.
In the new house, I am planning on having quite a few edible plants (mainly for immediate eating but I want to try preserving as well). I'd also like to give chickens a go...just a couple of bantams. Mr Grumpy doesn't like the idea of smelly chickens but you can rent a chook here, so we might give it a go first before committing to anything. I just like the idea of something that eats the copious amounts of crickets we get here and provides something I can eat.
Our new house has a rainwater tank that flushes the toilets & can water the garden...& we might look at investing in a grey water system to use our laundry rinse water to water the garden as well.
I've also started reading Australian Green Home and Garden - a book which gives lots of practical ways to cut down the use of chemicals in the home & garden. Keep your house clean using just vinegar, baking soda, & borax? Apparently it can be done.
Any minute now, I'm going to sprout hairy legs, a kaftan & a guitar & will no doubt start singing Kumbaya round a camp fire at the bottom of the garden.
Except I can't play the guitar...so I suppose I'll have to content myself with a spot of tree hugging.
hello again
~ Wednesday, March 14, 2007
It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it would confuse a lot of people.- Dolph Sharp, I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot
Ok...so I'm still in the process of updating the last 2 1/2 months (check back later - it'll be posted before this post). But in the meantime, here's an update on life as it happens...
It's official - I have an infection. My c-section is still not healed. It has a small, round, open, weepy bit where the scar simply hasn't healed at all. There has been no nasty smell or redness or swelling...just an open wound. My Ob had checked it at my 6 week check up & said to come back if it didn't heal in 2 weeks. Well, it's now 10 1/2 weeks & yesterday I started getting instense pain up one side of my abdomin, so it was back to the Ob to get it checked.
He looked rather concerned & prescribed some antibiotics. His thinking is it's either an infection or a stray stitch that has decided not to dissolve & instead play havoc with my insides. I have to go back in a week to get some special dressing to try & get it to heal.
I've been on the meds for a day & the pain is gone. I still have the "prickly, sore to the touch, like a bruise" sensation on my skin but the internal pain has vanished.
Wee Man is doing well. He's very jolly & chubby. At his last weigh in, he topped the graph on weight & was at the bottom on height...so he's short & fat (he hasn't had his growth spurt yet, evidently). He's the youngest bubba in the mum's group but is easily the biggest. And he's getting longer now, despite what it said at the last weigh in. He'll have to be moved out of the bassinet insert soon because he's getting too big...& he outgrew his bath weeks ago (doesn't stop us still using it, though - he adores kicking & splashing water everywhere).
He's been "talking" a lot lately...he'll stop feeding to tell me something that's obviously very important, giggle, then wait for me to respond. It's almost as if he's telling a joke. It's so funny.
Another wee trick is stopping to play a game with me. He pokes his tongue out...I poke mine out, waggle it & make some funny noises...he smiles a huge grin where his mouth opens wide & his eyes disappear & a semblance of a giggle emerges, then he pokes his tongue out & trys to mimic me...repeat. He's managed to poke it out and make a noise at the same time on a couple of occasions - no mean feat for a wee bubba.
In other news, our house is nearly finished. They've done the painting & tiling, the quartz benchtop is in & the stone hearth has been laid. We're just waiting for the plumbing & little things like mirrors & flyscreens to be installed...& then we can move in. It's a matter of weeks now. Yay. I can't wait to get out of this house we're renting at the moment. It's far too small for 4 of us & with the unseasonally hot weather we've been having lately, the lack of air conditioning has been quite unpleasant. Besides all that, I'm looking forward to having a dishwasher again. No parent with small babies should be without one.
Righto - off to get some much needed sleep. I can't believe I haven't had a full night sleep all year. LM was sleeping through the night at 6 1/2 weeks. Wee Man is 10 1/2 weeks & still wakes. But I think part of that might be because we're still sleeping in the same room (which I wasn't doing by this stage with LM) - so we wake each other up. I can't do anything about that till we move, so hopefully in a few weeks, I'll get a decent night sleep.
Yay.
Service note:
Because I (foolishly) switched to new Blogger (well, they said they were out of Beta & one assumes that means it's all working properly but apparently I was foolish to think so)...I now no longer have a working archive page that automatically updates it's index. The links to each individual post also don't work at the moment.
Until Blogger sorts this out, you'll have to manually click March or April to get to the appropriate archive page.
