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I'm here I'm here.
Hi. Still alive, here. Working full(ish) time and coming home to be mama is SO HARD GUYS. Really truly a difficult thing. If I could decide again I would decide to not work at all this year. It would be different if Oli worked part-time or not at all, but as it is he's gone from 7am-3pm and some days 6 or 7pm so between the two of us our house is a ( Read more... ) -
I started writing and didn't finish...
(I just found this draft I started in the beginning of March. See? I tried!)
So many things have happened since my last post. It seems silly to go back and write about Christmas, New Year's, and everything that happened up to now but I hate to just forget about it all (my documentation OCD kicking in), so I will do some short summaries.
Christmas: ( Read more... ) -
Still kickin'
I just have to write in this to break the cycle of not writing in this. I keep meaning to, and then start thinking of all the things I want to cover.. Christmas, job, Claudia and Marcus's various ongoings, Thailand... and then I say to myself "I will put aside a half hour and write about it all from where I left off in December" (December!) and ( Read more... ) -
Surviving! Two of them!
The baby is asleep and the bigger not-really-a-baby anymore toddler is asleep too. Whew. It's been a busy couple of weeks since Claudia's been born but we are managing it day by day. My mom was here until 3 days ago and she was a GIGANTIC help.. dishes were always done right away, she picked up and dropped off Marcus at school.. played with him at ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday Marcus!
Actually his birthday is tomorrow, but yesterday we had his party. It was a success! I made fruit and cheese skewers, a veggie platter and bought a bunch of sushi rolls and inari-zushi. There was a good show of people and everybody looked like they enjoyed themselves. Marcus of course had a couple of meltdowns but I expected that because it's ( Read more... ) -
One more month! cont..
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The Name Game.
Yay, I'm on maternity leave!!! I wasn't expecting to finish work so early on, but it turns out that when I started my job my health insurance changed from private (my last job) to national because my new job doesn't offer me private insurance. Apparently for people on national health insurance they don't get the 6 weeks before/8 weeks after monies ( Read more... ) -
Kobe weekend.
In Kobe at Ana and Tatsuya's house. Yesterday I had to be in Kobe for work, so I decided to stay overnight and hang with Ana instead of taking the train back at night, exhausted. This is the first time I've left Oli and Marcus overnight (not that I'm worried about it, I just never had a reason to before). Unfortunately, my internal alarm clock is ( Read more... ) -
Squeezed into yukata.
I'm pregnant, and tired, and that's most of what I have to say about the last few weeks. Here's a photo from this morning when we all wore yukata at work for the Tanabata celebration.
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Mandatory update.
Nothing much to report here. I still like my job, even though sometimes I clash with my teaching partner. Marcus is as active/adorable/frustrating/wonderful as always. I'm getting bigger, I definitely have a baby bump and I'm not looking forward to being huge again. Here's hoping I can lose it all as quickly as I did last time. Oh, and it's not ( Read more... )