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Another solid night last night!
After days of nursing for a growth-spurt (read: very frequently), Elisha zonked hard last night and (by our sleepy estimate) pulled-off 6-hours in a stretch. He also did more than three hours together for his morning nap. That combined with the girls’ morning movie made me feel very productive.

Do I sound pathetic yet?
I’ve got to say one of my biggest parenting struggles/challenges right now (don’t laugh– it’s right up there with tantrums) is maintaining/cycling clothes so the right amount of the right size is in the drawer/available for three kids at once.
Organizing was never my strong point, so boxes and boxes of clothes: [...]

Programs it would be useful for my to know intimately, and I haven’t taken/don’t have the time to learn:
*Adobe GoLive (the website software we own)
*Textpattern and/or Wordpress (blogging software Jay wants me to learn to I can shift this over to the family website)
*Power Point (apparently what I feel aught to happen isn’t a part [...]

At this point I’m not planning to restart the storytelling group in the fall. We easily agreed to put it on-hold for the summer (there are very few members involved enough to “vote” anymore), and I expected we’d start again once school began, but now I think my focus has shifted.
I may have mentioned before [...]

My body let me know at the beginning of the weekend that I pushed it too hard last week– the first week Jay was back at work full-time. I won’t belabor how, but I found it frustrating the same way I’ve found certain people frustrating. Two (maybe three?) jobs in a row I [...]

I agree with my friend who said every baby deserves a party. And I hope I don’t forget that as more of my friends and acquaintances have babies.
But with this latest baby I wasn’t comfortable calling his party a “shower.”

Currently Reading
The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers
By Elizabeth Pantley
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I’m so hopeful It’s only been 2-days in a row, but it bodes well for being alone in-charge of 3 little ones
I’ll know “for-real” starting next week, but we’ve had (what I hope are) some break-throughs in the last couple [...]

As long as I’ve had my own child in my arms I’ve been hearing some version of the line from adults my parents’ age (thankfully never from my parents): “Enjoy it while it lasts, sweetie, it’ll be over before you know it.”
Laying aside the fact that I was none of these people’s “sweetie,” the line [...]

The main problem I see with “therapeutic” writing is how necessary (or, at least, strongly encouraged) it seems to be to focus on the negative you’re trying to deal with/process.
The implication is that you must define and identify it, I suppose.
But for me to do this I must submit myself to the negative feelings that [...]

Now, I know I have a mind for details. Once I input them I usually remember them (I’d like a word stronger than “usually,” but no one can say “always”). So it’s funny/weird to me when I get asked questions I know they know the answer to. Or, at least, I [...]