I used to think (before I became a parent) that being a parent was exhausting because your kid couldn't sleep through the night and if you could just get a full night's sleep without "get up and feed" or "deal with nightmares" or "sick kid" (the constant "sick kid" syndrome). I have learned, this is… Continue reading Life: Toddler Exhaustion
Category: Life Events
Life Events: Home Improvements
This is a busy month! It's my 5th anniversary, my son's 2nd birthday, I've gotten my 2nd Covid vaccine shot, and my work project is finishing (hitting serious deadlines headlong!). Oh and we're ripping the pool out of our backyard. Yup. When we bought our house, we bought a house with a pool. We knew… Continue reading Life Events: Home Improvements
2021 Goals
So I guess I DO resolutions. At least when it comes to my own reading goals every year. Goodreads "reading challenge" always at least gets me thinking about it. This year I have three personal goals I want to tackle. The first is my reading goal which is to get through my to-be-read pile. I… Continue reading 2021 Goals
Life Events: Election 2020
By the time this post goes up it's "yesterday," I am writing this Wed night. My heart aches. I do not have WORDS for how much I grieve.
Life: Anxiety in 2020
I can finally give a concrete example of anxiety manifesting in 2020. For the past two days or so I am bothered. I am turning it over and over and over in my mind. I get upset and grumble and gripe about it to myself. I literally start arguing with myself over it. No, I… Continue reading Life: Anxiety in 2020
Life Events: Furniture Feelings
We sold our guest bed this weekend. I have feelings about it. It didn't start as our guest bed. It started as my bed. The first bed I even actually bought. When I graduated from college I took the old double-bed from my parents house which I had been using. It was ok, but after… Continue reading Life Events: Furniture Feelings
Burned Hand
I burned my hand this weekend. Just a moment of distraction while I was pulling dinner out of the oven and brushed the back of my right hand against the edge of the inside of the oven (not the heating elements, just the edge near the door). Photo taken Mon morning I yelped and rushed… Continue reading Burned Hand
Life Events: ER and COVID-19
Let me start with this: I am OK. Saturday morning I was ok. Got up, played with Remy. Did a bit of picking up to vacuum the living room. At 11 I took Remy upstairs to cuddle with daddy while I made a cup of tea and used my inhaler. I felt my asthma flaring… Continue reading Life Events: ER and COVID-19
Current Events: Coronovirus
I wasn't going to add to the noise around this, but then the other day someone posted "ok everyone, this isn't the bubonic plague." The historian came out. So many ways I wanted to respond: Yes, please don't kill cats. Rats are the ones most likely causing the spread of the plague.True. The bubonic plague… Continue reading Current Events: Coronovirus
Musing: Daycare
Remy is six months old. He has been in daycare for two weeks now and I have thoughts. My mother has a brilliant approach to life choices like “daycare vs Stay at Home Mom (SHM)” questions - there are always trade-offs. There isn’t necessarily a right answer, they both can be right and wrong in… Continue reading Musing: Daycare
Dream by Day 