Checking in

I miss you! I miss questions! But I am knee-deep in work. Perhaps waist-deep in work.

I realized this morning that I'm in the phase of the project in which four hours actually seems like a decent amount of sleep at night, and the work has started doing itself. The rhythm of the project has kind of found its way into my brain waves, so I'm just producing, not really thinking hard about it. It's not flow. It's some kind of half-world of brain activity and typing. Human : vampire :: flow : this state.

Perhaps I will entertain you with some cute kid stories.

My older one came home from school yesterday with a fat lip. I asked him what happened, and he said he got kicked in the lip at recess. But he seemed pretty nonchalant about it, so I asked, "Was it fun kicking, or painful kicking?" "Oh, it was fun, Mom!" he answered. "But then the grown-ups told us we shouldn't play fight anymore, so today we're doing foot races!"

I'm not sure I'll ever understand boys.

The little one makes up songs about everything. The other day I heard him walking around singing, "We can be careful, we can be careful, we can be CARE! FULLLLLLLLL!"

I have no idea what that was about, but I'm glad he's into Safety First.

Comments

[iturhs]

@Bobbi- coughs and such. This is an old trick passed down the generations in my family and works wonders: mix a little tumeric with the honey. Tumeric is a natural antibiotic so it works against the cough while the honey soothes and raw and sore throat. we actually give this mixture to our son regularly when a cough spell is going around the neighborhood.

[Chaosgirl]

@Shannon -- It's her baby shower. I'd give her what she wants. I like the mimosa idea and you can buy relatively inexpensive bubbly for that.

I need some support here. I'm going on day 5 of wee one with ear infection (first one), me with throat infection, and DH away on business. I'm exhausted, and periodically running a fever.

Oh he's up again...

[mom2boys]

Lots of sympathy to you chaosgirl. Hang in there!!!!

[jlg]

@Chaosgirl Ear infections are so tough! I hope you and wee one feel better soon.

[MorahLaura]

@jlg: We had the same issue with my 4.5 yr old daughter last year. She was having poo and pee accidents and claimed she wasn't aware she had an accident. Turns out it was serious constipation; the sensation of always having full bowels made her not know she had to pee and (*yuck*) liquid poo was leaking out around the solid mass and giving her the accidents.
Gross, but something to ask your doctor about as it's very easily fixed.

[Lisa]

OK, you guys are a lot kinder than I am today. My first thought in response to the below: "Honey, karma is a bitch."

Now I think I'll go have one of those mimosas.

{cackle}

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'And if I have to hear, "We're not going to be that couple who has no life outside their kid," one more time, well...'

[rebeccaeee]

Re: baby shower with alcohol. I threw my baby shower in the mid-afternoon and had it catered by a local Italian place. We had pasta, bread, and salad which was a good excuse for serving copious amounts of red wine. My friends, with and without kids, appreciated it. I have been to too many showers with noxious sherbert punch that made me want to vomit so I flat out refused to do "traditional" shower food and drink. We played a "match the baby pic to the grownup" game and a "match the stupid celebrity baby name to the parent" game- both were hits with non-kid friends. I think childless people have a hard time at baby showers, for whatever reason, and alcohol makes them feel a little less alien to the event. No beer, no hard liquor but open the wine so they can eat, drink and be merry.

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