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First steps

Not Alex - mine.
Today I drove in the land of vices for the first time. I did not get lost. I did not cuss. I found the local co-op grocery store, I found THE most awesome Craftsman inspired furniture store where I mentally spent more than the balance left on my car, I found Scout’s […]

Ah Bliss

So I’ve been in charge for two whole days now and we have survived.
But you should have felt the relief flow through me when Scout said he was taking off work tomorrow.
Since two of the last three weeks have been such clustersmacks my milk is WAY low. All the stock pile I had (at least […]

The New Normal - Day One

Scout is up and at the office. This is the longest since Alex ws born that I’ve been in charge of him - all but 30 minutes since last night at 1030. We’re doing okay. I don’t get much done bc of the whol “I won’t sleep if you aren’t with me” thing. But I […]

Routine

Here we go. We spent three days travelling to the land of vices. Two days looking for a house. Tonight we bid on an awesome house too expensive but we’ll figure it out. Tomorrow Scout starts at the office so we are now beginning the new normal. Alex still wakes up if not held/kept close […]

On Love

Last night my brother bought us dinner from Heaven on Seven. Generally known as the place Scout and I could eat every day until we die - and only available in Chicago. We planned dinner a week in advance.
I had left overs, which is a joy of HoS because you get the love twice.
So we […]

Traveling

Traveling with tiny baby Alex is rough. He’s not fan of the long trip. He cried so much yesterday that he’s still hoarse today. Poor boy.
The good thing is that we all slept like rocks last night.

Why it sucks being the mom

As long as I’ve lived with Scout, anytime I had to do some household chore I didn’t want to do I would mentally refer to it as “being the mom”.
Now I am the mom and here’s the reasons (today) that it sucks.
Everyone else in the house is sleeping (Scout, Alex, MIL). I am not.
I have […]

And again.

I’m so sick of typing one handed that all my compter correspondence is just going to hell.
I did want to post that I’ve developed my first non curse word that seems to fulfill my needs as a curse word that I can say in public.
I bring you :
Clustersmack.
Clearly public friendly replacement for ClusterFUCK. But the […]

Distracted apparently

or just tired of typing with one hand.
I’m cleared for takeoff after my appt on Wed. Now if I could just have hubs to myself….
Alex weighs 12 pounds 6 ounces and is 24 inches long.
I rolled him from back to front today and rolled right to his back again.

The Good Body

During our final teacher meeting on Friday, we were told that our school psych (who is rather tiring) was going to introduce two speech/debate students to do a dramatic interp (I can’t remember which category it was, but this is close) that she and several others had found quite moving and thought we should all […]