The weather is nice and gray outside, on the verge of sprinkling any minute. Ordinarily that's kind of a cool thing, right now it's making me feel a bit blue myself. I'm extremely anxious about tomorrow's daycare trial run. I mostly thing I might flip out dropping him off and returning to a completely empty house, something I haven't had since...early August.
I am thinking that he's going through a bit of a growth spurt again at his 12 weeks (as of today), since all 'Lil D seems to be interested in is eating and sleeping. We slept through the night once this week, I am talking from 10 - 6:30 a.m. HELLO! Last night we went back to getting up at 4:30, but that's okay. I can function on 5-6 hours of sleep, I have learned to lower my standards from 8-6 hours, since that ain't happening, at lest until retirement.
In between the naps here I'm slowly getting a daycare diaper bag ready with changes of clothes and diapers, wipes, bottles, all while trying to remember to put his name on everything, just in case.
Other stuff...Sean and I actually did some early Christmas shopping and have started to get some ideas of what to buy. We are generally late last minute shoppers, so even having some "stocking stuffer" items is ahead of the game for us! Usually the wallet or time is not on the same page as us.
I am still racking my brain with ideas that I can do from home, or at least more part-time. I think we've all been spoiled since Sean went back to work with having me home. While I might not get to cleaning as much as I'd like, dinner is almost always ready, the lights are on, someone is home when Sloan gets off school. It's nice. It's...how my family was growing up, one person home when the kids got home. Novel idea, huh? Unfortunately that ain't the easiest thing to do living in California, in 2009.
I'm hopeful for some changes in the upcoming years. After the elections last week I feel like a big weight was lifted off my shoulders. I had a lot of skepticism over the outcome, not because I didn't feel that Obama (not to self: the dictionary doesn't yet recognize the spelling of Obama, see how long this takes to have it added) would have won by the people's votes, but I was more afraid that, let's just say "somehow" the outcome would have led to the other guy. This thought process might have something to do with the last two election outcomes...just maybe. I was really ready to quit my job, cash in our pensions, and flee the country. I guess I'll stick around for a bit and see what happens. Thank you America!
I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving in a few weeks. I have a lot to be thankful for this year. The majority of it is stirring in the next room, is 12 weeks old, and just too damn cute. This time last year, while we'd hoped, he wasn't even a real thought. Well, technically, he was probably gestating and I didn't know it for a bit. In any event, it's all changed this year and I'm in love with every minute of it!
That all said, I'm going to stop myself, check on laudry, and get the munchkin up.
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