LYNNABEL's CalorieKing Blog
Saturday, October 20th 2007
I have thought several times over the past few days about writing in here and I hesitated to because I felt like I would spending time angsting over Will, and I'm not sure I want this to be a place to record my frustrations with Will. I hesitated because one general goal I have for myself as a parent is to try to minimize negativity in general. I feel that way because although I know my parents loved (and love) me, I remember long, long stretches of childhood where life seemed just plain old unp...Wednesday, October 17th 2007
Its 2:40am and I'm not asleep. This makes me anxious because I can't say I have always enough stamina to finish the day with 8 hours of sleep, much less with 3. This has happened a few times now over the past month or so. I'm not particularly uncomfortable physically when I wake up so I don't think its that - I do know my mind is going a mile a minute and I can't turn it off.I saw the doctor yesterday. The weight seems to be piling on, which isn't because of my eating habits. I worry about...
ding-ding-DONG
Thursday, October 11th 2007
So. The good news is that I had an ultrasound on Tuesday and the placenta has moved away from the birth canal, so I no longer have placenta previa. Which means certain (ahem) activities are open to me (and S) again. And Turtle is definitely still a girl. Who chews on her feet a lot. The bad news is that Im anemic and I have to have the 3-hour glucose test. The anemia is easy to address with iron supplements, but maybe that has been a factor in my fatigue/irritability? The 3-hour glucose test i...Tuesday, October 9th 2007
One reason I wanted to start journaling again was to record things about Will that I know will be lost with time.Some darling-isms lately are: "vo-mie" for movie and "di-pie" for diaper; and the specific requesting of books by title, ex. "'se-wf" for "All By Myself" and "Biggie" for "When I Get Bigger" and "Granma" for "Just Me and Grandpa" (all by Mercer Mayer). He has peed on the toilet before his bath 3 time...
whine-one-one
Monday, October 8th 2007
Although the world is full of people with REAL problems, mine seem (at the moment) overwhelming to me, so I'm going to write them down in bullet format and hope that takes care of the need to vent without giving them too much air time.-heartburn most days
-nausea (still) every morning
-traffic/rain/car
-cube farm layout of office (no privacy either for myself or FROM others)
-people who PROHIBIT their babies from learning sign
-people who think they are providing their babies wit...