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Some weekend stuff
Aug. 25th, 2008 09:15 pmMy poor baby, she was so sleepy that she tried her best to go to bed at six this evening. Mean Mommy wouldn't let her. She also tried to take a second nap (after her first nap, which started before 10 a.m. and lasted until 12:30) which Mean Mommy would have graciously allowed, but she thought better of it in the end. She had a really busy weekend at Granny's house, napped too late in the day, and then she got up too early this morning after going to bed too late. Even when the sleeping situation is decent, it's still important in the life of a parent. I totally understand why people write about it so much. It's hard not to even though I technically know that no one needs a detailed list of nap times.
Last night we left my grandfather's house at six, which was pretty late. It takes two hours, door to door, to get home from his house. (Sucks balls, this trip, which is why we now go every three weeks instead of every two, and spend the weekend with my parents to make up for it. That gives us one trip of an hour and a half, a half hour drive to my grandfather's house the next day, and then only one two hour trip, plus it saves us on gas.) Anyway, we were twenty minutes down the road when I realized that we had left the laptop case. We had brought it inside to keep it out of the heat. The laptop sits beside me on the couch all day, especially when nursing and in particular, when I put her to bed. It is a major enhancement to my quality of life--I didn't have it set up like that for her first few months so I can really appreciate the difference. Not only that, it also had the portable DVD player in it. Said DVD player (I cringe when I think about how I made fun of people who bought these, by the way, in those innocent days before procreation.) sits on our kitchen counter, where it plays Elmo and Signing Times while I cook or eats lunch. (I also used to think I would not let my toddler watch television. Hmmm...) In other words, it was pretty important that we go get the thing, which turned our sucky two hour trip into a nearly three hour trip. Yay! Luckily, E slept through almost all of it, and when she woke up crying... well, at least Elmo was there to ease the pain. Elmo, and crackers.
Speaking of Elmo, what the hell is with Mr. Noodle? Why is it that they are making fun of clearly handicapped adults? Elmo annoys me so much less than I expected, except for the Mr. Noodle scenes. Oh, and thank you, Pepsi Points, for supplying me with The Best of Elmo's World for free. I love Pepsi Points (and my kind family who has also been saving them for me this summer.)
I spent my morning naptime this morning sewing and I still have some left to do, so I had best cut this short and put my nose back to the grindstone. I have a lot to get done and not a lot of time to do it. Meanwhile, my kid needs diapers and they apparently will not sew themselves no matter how long I leave them sitting there, cut and snapped. I need an auto-sewing machine! I guess that might cut down on some of the pleasures of my sewing hobby but it sure would be handy.
Last night we left my grandfather's house at six, which was pretty late. It takes two hours, door to door, to get home from his house. (Sucks balls, this trip, which is why we now go every three weeks instead of every two, and spend the weekend with my parents to make up for it. That gives us one trip of an hour and a half, a half hour drive to my grandfather's house the next day, and then only one two hour trip, plus it saves us on gas.) Anyway, we were twenty minutes down the road when I realized that we had left the laptop case. We had brought it inside to keep it out of the heat. The laptop sits beside me on the couch all day, especially when nursing and in particular, when I put her to bed. It is a major enhancement to my quality of life--I didn't have it set up like that for her first few months so I can really appreciate the difference. Not only that, it also had the portable DVD player in it. Said DVD player (I cringe when I think about how I made fun of people who bought these, by the way, in those innocent days before procreation.) sits on our kitchen counter, where it plays Elmo and Signing Times while I cook or eats lunch. (I also used to think I would not let my toddler watch television. Hmmm...) In other words, it was pretty important that we go get the thing, which turned our sucky two hour trip into a nearly three hour trip. Yay! Luckily, E slept through almost all of it, and when she woke up crying... well, at least Elmo was there to ease the pain. Elmo, and crackers.
Speaking of Elmo, what the hell is with Mr. Noodle? Why is it that they are making fun of clearly handicapped adults? Elmo annoys me so much less than I expected, except for the Mr. Noodle scenes. Oh, and thank you, Pepsi Points, for supplying me with The Best of Elmo's World for free. I love Pepsi Points (and my kind family who has also been saving them for me this summer.)
I spent my morning naptime this morning sewing and I still have some left to do, so I had best cut this short and put my nose back to the grindstone. I have a lot to get done and not a lot of time to do it. Meanwhile, my kid needs diapers and they apparently will not sew themselves no matter how long I leave them sitting there, cut and snapped. I need an auto-sewing machine! I guess that might cut down on some of the pleasures of my sewing hobby but it sure would be handy.
