Announcing Sprout

12-02-2004, 08:27 AM
in squirmy little baby news, i gave n a few bites of cereal this morning. It was just a tablespoon of my cereal with a squirt of breastmilk to make it a bit thinner. He ate it right up-- opened his mouth, grabbed the spoon, scooped off the cereal, swallowed. After the few bites (four? five?) he didn't clamour for more so I didn't give him any more. But I didn't even have to wipe off his face-- that's how efficient he was. Perhaps will have to buy baby cereal and start sooner than planned.

12-02-2004, 11:32 AM
okay, is it bad that it's 11:20 on a thursday and I'm seriously considering what juice would go best with vodka?

i don't even know how to express what i'm so frustrated/panicky about. it's just everything. my projects for my class hanging over my head (which I am not about to do with N on my lap hitting the "close everything" key every few minutes) and bills that need to be paid with money that I don't have, for real this time-- no amount of rearranging is going to make this work and I realized it too late so I already ordered the new business cards... and the holidays are suddenly stressful where I have never suffered from holiday stress in any large way before... it's just that my parents suddenly don't give a flying fuck about tradition and it's always been totally important to me and even more so now that I have N, and I'm exhausted trying to "discuss" it with them without it turning into a huge fight. and my grandma's husband fell down the stairs and needed surgery on his leg and now he's in pt and they are keeping him in a nursing home while that happens, so who knows what the rest of december will hold in terms of my gps and my mom will end up going there (to MN) to help out which is great but it means that I have NO ONE to help me here (not that she ever actually ends up helping me out but there is the illusion that someone might) and plus it makes it all the more important that we actually do our early christmas stuff because who knows what will happen to the actual near christmas christmas stuff. and, i'm feeling horribly selfish and materialistic about xmas this year because there is so much we can't do for each other and for Nick and also a decent amount of stuff that we really kinda "need" (like a high chair, for example, and how we needed the carseats) that I was counting on for christmas but I don't know anymore.... just want to scream over and over and over again. plus was up sick all night so I'm running on practically no sleep which always makes everything worse.

12-02-2004, 02:05 PM
at least xmas gifts have been bought for months. months. no worries there.

squirmy squeally protesting baby on lap. where did the day go? i just ate lunch and it's two pm. have to make stroganoff for K for dinner tonight so it is just as well that I had a late lunch, since I don't like stroganoff. but, i made a deal with him on monday that if he made dinner on the grill, i'd make stroganoff on thursday, and here it is, thursday. i'm going to make him do dishes first, though. the kitchen is a small disaster.g

12-03-2004, 09:46 AM
snow! finally! this has to be the latest first snow ever. I could smell it last night and I kept singing "it's beginning to look a lot like christmas" and K was laughing at me and saying that it was a good think Nick had no idea what christmas was supposed to look like. but, there was actually a little snow on the ground this morning. I put nick outside and took photos even though it's a really lame snow, it's his first snow after all and deserves to be commemerated.

06:20 PM
ha, just got N a tiny santa hat (99 cents) and he made everyone grin at the grocery. portabello mushrooms for dinner, yum.