Excuses, Excuses

Or: why we haven't posted in almost three months.

1. We moved: out of a house, out of a condo, out of my mom's house, out of a warehouse, into a house.
2. The heat. It was really hot this summer. We got kind of depressed about that.
3. Our computer was homeless for a while. It lived in a box.
4. Lack of sleep.
5. Not enough shut-eye.
6. And finally: an extremely wakeful baby whose frequent night-time feasts left me unmotivated, unproductive, and eventually distraught.

It's no coincidence that I'm updating this blog only after Natalie has, against her wishes and not according to her baby plans, started sleeping through the night (sort of, most nights). This involved the reading, by me, of a book called Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, the same book I read and put into practice when Megan was eight months old.

So yeah, I bought that book twice. But it worked. At least, mostly. (I just now had to go in and pat her little bottom back to sleep, same as I did last night. Clearly, I need to reread some chapters.)

Day 233



10/14/2011


















Postscript: Today, another baby would have turned 15. Hard to believe.

Nest-less

We handed over our Wichita Falls home and moved out of the Dallas condo, missing a few days' photos here and there. In a few weeks, we'll be settled in our new (to us) home in Farmers Branch. We're looking forward to being together this school year.

A week or so ago, in a state of frustration over not having had any time to myself, I said, "This year is going to be the year of ME."

Megan said, "No, it's going to be the year of WE."

She was right. This coming year, we'll celebrate being in ONE home, in ONE city. We'll celebrate that Nat will have a room instead of a Pack-n-Play. That Megan can get the kitten she's been wanting since we lost CJ. That we won't have to go out of town anywhere. Unless we want to.