24 posts tagged “updates”

been busy.  monkey broke his leg the friday morning before the long labor day weekend.  we had to wait until the following wednesday to see a bone doctor.  we were all traumatized.  my mom flew in on the spot and helped and hung out with me and monkey all last week at home.  he's now in a cast and will be for the next 5 weeks.  he's doing much, much better now and isn't in pain anymore. 

that's the short version.  all will be well.

the mister has been really busy and preoccupied not only with monkey but also with his book release party, which was last night.  his second book of poetry.  it's awesome.  the event went really well.  so we've been through that now as well.

my mom left this morning.  so now i'm by myself a bit again, which is good.  i have a lot of work to do and haven't been able to concentrate for 2 weeks now since monkey got hurt. 

okay, so that's the short story.  going to try to update again soon.  now i'm off to pick up the little dudes at daycare.  i miss them. 

• been typing a lot today.  many emails.  syllabus fixing. 
• bullets.
  
• went to yoga for a bit.  my instructor wasn't feeling good so we just stretched for a while.  then i left.  she was really nice though.

Monkey is about 3.5 years now.  Moonpie is 14 months now.  Incredible. 

They're really starting to play together.  Interacting and chasing each other around.  They get each other laughing and teasing all the time.  I'm always on edge because they're still too rough and uncoordinated with each other.  Still, it's wonderful to see them as friends and brothers.  Good things to come. 

Moonpie has been walking since 10 months.  He's got about 5 B words and also says Dada, Mama (less often), and kitty.  He has dimples on his dimples.  The most amazing smile I have ever seen.  And he's also got opinions.  He's dramatic when he doesn't get his way.  Also obsessed with bottles.  Wants a milk bottle.  I want him off the bottle, but that's going to be a big deal.  A big process I think.  I'm trying not to think about it or worry about it much.  He's also a great eater.  Many fewer opinions about food than Monkey.  So that makes him easier at meals than his brother.  No complaints on food.

Monkey is learning to swim.  For about a week now he's been swimming with us in the big pool without anything to support him.  He's kind of fearless about it and that makes me nervous.  He's getting better and better every day though.  Pretty amazing.  He is a Pisces after all.  My little fish.  He should be really swimming on his own by the end of the summer I think.   We swim every day after school.

They are wonderful.

Hello there.  I am sorry that I have been neglecting my little yoganaught blog over here.  I have to admit that I joined FB because I found a bunch of my high school people on there and that has turned into the biggest time suck!  I'm going to try to tone that down and instead go back to my vox blog and put the personal stuff here, leaving the stuff for my "network" to see over there.  Sorry.

In other news, we just returned from a week-long spring break in Florida with the grandparents.  It was exhausting but oh, so good to get away.  We really, really needed that.

Took about 600 pictures so I have to download them and go through them.  I'll post some here asap.  I have a yucky week ahead of me and so I've got to get work stuff in order before I can have any more fun with my guys.

Hope all is well there.

xo

Not much new.
I went two work both Thursday and Friday this week.  That was kind of exhausting.  Not particularly fun.  Its amazing how quickly going back to the office puts me right back into the usual office gossip, whining, and complaining that has been the modus operandi since I got here.  I haven't missed it.  Makes me want to take a shower as soon as I get back home.  AND it makes it much harder to make dinner when I am actually at work during the day.  Yuck.  Makes me even more committed to continuing to work at home as much as possible next semester when I am supposedly back full time. 

Monkey is great.  He had a good week at school.  He is very funny.  All of a sudden he loves Milo and Otis.  Cute.
Moonpie is great.  Not sleeping much, but cute.  That's his saving grace.
He's supposed to be sleeping right now actually.  Instead he's in there rolling around, talking to himself, and slowly ratcheting up the volume so that I'll come in there.

I made Onion Dijon Soup last night from a recipe from my forever friend Mary in NYC.  It was good.  Going to make Lima Bean Soup tonight from another of her recipes. 

I've been trying to cook more.  And I've really been enjoying it.  I can follow recipes.  But it really does require that I don't work full time.  I've been playing stay at home mom/ housewife for the last bunch of months and it's really the only way to do both.  I've also managed to be very productive at work--I've got four articles under review at the moment.  But that's because I haven't been going there and bothering with anyone.  I've really only been hanging out/talking with about 1.5 people and avoiding all the rest and the regular drama.  It's been working. 

Going to take some pictures of the dudes later today after naps.  I'll post some soon.

We had a busy end of week and weekend.  The mister was an organizer and moderator of several panels at the Vegas Valley Book Festival.  He was busy Friday and Saturday doing stuff.  I didn't get to go to any of it but he said that it all went well.  I think he was just trying to survive it.  That stuff is hard. 

To add to the insanity I did an interview for a yet-to-be-aired tv series on the History Channel.  Will likely air in the spring sometime--march or april I think.  It was fine.  Totally strange.  Nice people for the most part.  I tried to sound smart even though the premise of the program (extreme long life and life expectancy) is kind of wacko and dumb.  After it all I thought of a couple of points I should have made, but they probably wouldn't have used them anyway.  I am still having a hard time with how I looked for it.  I went shopping and got a new outfit and shoes, spent too much money really, but I just don't feel like myself or comfortable in this post-pregnancy body.  I feel so thick in the middle it's hard to feel and look confident.  It doesn't fit with my image of myself in my mind's eye.

Enough about my body.  I will say one thing though...it would help a lot of I would stop eating so much sugar and junk.  I just crave it.  Need a sugar fix.  I think I have a bonafide addiction to sugar.  That's a big problem.

Moonpie is struggling with is teeth again.  This time it's the top front.  They're just sitting there tormenting him.  Monkey is great.  A rascal with me though.  The mister gets his fair share of the rascal monkey but I get more.  He really favors his dad.  I am totally jealous.  I'm starting to call monkey Mr. Defiant behind his back because he literally does the opposite of what I ask him to do.  With a twinkle in his eye.  I'm hoping that this will pass, right?

Gotta get some work done this morning.  Signing off.

SOOOOO happy about our new President.  I think it's so amazing and wonderful.  I am thrilled that my sons will know him as their first President.  I think that little tiny fact alone offers great possibilities for the future.

I don't envy the poor guy's job though.  He's crazy to have wanted to be PoTUS with the state we're in. 

Busy, tired, okay.

Doing a weird interview thing for a tv show this Saturday.  The mister pushed me to do it.  I never do these things.  Never.  Scared shitless.  Can't even think about it.

Mister is involved in a book festival all weekend and is feeling overwhelmed by it.  Just gotta get through it.

Moonpie WAS doing great sleeping and is now waking up every couple of hours again.  I think it's his teeth.  My guys teethe early on and it messes up their sleep.  Still, he's SO cute.

Monkey is beautiful.  Talking.  Singing.  Last night he loved the Tootsie Roll song.  He was a dino for Halloween and had a great time.

Off to get the little dudes.  I miss them.

Yesterday I:

• fixed a sprinkler head.
• sorted through a bunch of clothes to give away.
• began working on cleaning out the mister's dresser.
• started a photo book project on snapfish documenting Monkey's first year (week by week).
  
• bought yet more diapers at Target.
• made quesadillas de frijoles for dinner.
  

Today I:

• finished emptying the mister's old dresser and organized his new one.
• posted an OFFER for the old dresser on Freecycle.
• am waiting for the television repair person to come between 1 and 5.
• called Bo the handyman to come fix our kitchen faucet, which spontaneously lost all water pressure last night.  he's coming tomorrow at 9.
• am doing more laundry.
• changed the cat box.
  
• finished the photo book of Monkey's first year.  (Since he's 2.5 now I should probably go ahead and get started on year 2).
  

It's Monday morning.  The mister was up early and had to be at work at 7:30.  This means that I was on Monkey duty this morning.  He woke up sweet and pure, we hung around the house for about a half hour.  Then he said that he wanted to go to school.  Really?  No problem.  Let's do that.  So we loaded up the Moonpie and the Monkey and off we went.  He was there by 8:30.  I hung around outside the classroom a bit.  I always like to watch him when he doesn't know it.  He is so cute.  He is so comfortable there.  He loves his teacher, Ms. Dolores.  She gives him sugary cereal every morning.  I am just so smitten with him.

Moonpie and I came home.  He was so sleepy (we were up a lot last night).  I finally got him to relax and doze off.  Angel baby.  Well, not all the time.  I'm doing a bad job on night duty with him.  I just keep nursing him.  He's up 4-5 times a night though.  I'm reading Secrets of the Baby Whisperer in order to figure out what this particular woman says I should do about trying to get him to sleep at night.  My friend E gave it to me.  Apparently it helped her with her kids.  I'm half way through the book and only now am getting to the part about sleep.  She's got some good advice though.  I'm already kind of using her E.A.S.Y. system.  It's working pretty well during the day.  It's nighttime that's difficult right now.  I need to read that part!

I should be in the shower now.  Instead, I'm on the computer.  I just found this blog (not sure how I got there).  She makes little deserts in tiny flower pots.  She does a great job of walking through the steps with really nice fotos.  I would love to spend my day making cute, crafty deserts.  Or making new drapes.  Or decorating the kids' rooms.  Or being crafty in whatever way. 

Instead I need to work on the death manuscript.  I call it Death of Me.  I hate it.  It brings me no joy.  Got to get it to the editors in the next couple of weeks.  My coauthor is no real help.  I'm losing steam on it.  I just want to give it to them and hope that they see a kernel of something good in it and are willing to help us make it into something that is actually good and decent.  Something not embarrassing.  That's what I'm shooting for.

Alfredo is coming at noon to clean, which is really great.  I have to get me and Moonpie out of the house for a couple of hours.  I'm thinking Herbally Grounded and then Trader Joe's. 

It's been a strange day.  Nothing really weird has happened.  It's just a little off.

I heard People Are Strange on the radio today and I realized how much I missed it.

Took Moonpie to the dr this morning for his 2 month well-check.  He's 14 pounds!!!  He's 23 inches.  He's huge.  Doing great.  They gave him a round of shots though, that's not so great.  After, we couldn't go home right away because people were working at the house and so we walked around Barnes and Noble for an hour or so.  I finally bought The Omnivore's Dilemma, which my good friend M had recommended to me months ago.  I read 8 pages so far.  So far, so good.  I'm already impressed and depressed by what he's saying. 

And Moonpie is not himself exactly because he got those shots.  He was really good at the pediatrician though.  Good baby.  I think that his little thighs are hurting him now and so it makes him cranky.  He's sleeping a lot, albeit restlessly, and not eating as much this afternoon.  The not eating part messes up my boobs.  Hard to stay balanced.

Both of my parents have called today.  I talked to my mom but my dad just left a message because I didn't have the phone by me and Moonpie was screaming in my face. 

M called today but, again, he was screaming and I didn't get to answer.  I want to call her back now but I don't dare take the chance since I think he's going to wake up again any minute.  I do want to talk with her though.  I miss her.

I started reading a co-authored paper that I'm trying to contribute to with my friends/colleagues A and C.  I'm on page 7 I think.  It's good so far.  I'm trying to be helpful.  They've done the real work so far.  I'm taking a break because Moonpie keeps making big wild animal noises in his sleep and I keep having to get up and down to check on him and so I'm not concentrating well on what I'm reading.  So I gave up for the minute.  Gotta go get Monkey from daycare soon anyway.  I should be able to power through tomorrow and finish it up.

I started reading Blue Angel the other night.  I'm about 30 pages into it.  It's good so far.  The mister read it a while back and suggested it to me.  Said I would like it.  It's about academics in a small VT college.  Very cynical.  I think I know why he liked it so much.  

For the past three or four days or so it's been overcast and sticky out.  Wonderful weather.  Reminds me of Florida.  And this afternoon it's threatening to rain a bit.  It's been doing that a lot...threatening.  I'm ready for a downpour.  That would be a great end to this off-kilter day.