Life is going well, but I'm feeling tired and burnt out. I think the latter boils down to not getting nearly enough sleep (this having a baby AND a toddler thing is hard), and selfishly wanting a break from caring for my family. That said, I know that if I start writing about the negative stuff, I'm just going to feel sad. So here's a bit about all ( Read more... )

Rigel has been growing like crazy. He's up over 16 lbs and in the 99th percentile for length - seems to be taking after my side of the family. :-) The minute he got to be 4 months old, he realized that THERE ARE THINGS TO LOOK AT and he's been too busy looking at them to bother nursing unless he's in a dark, quiet room. When we had our CT meeting ( Read more... )

~14 loads of laundry
~20 loads of dishes
>100 diaper changes
28 meals
96 nails clipped (this includes the cats' claws - they each have only 4 on their hind paws)

*tired*

Rigel Almon Wiley Sittler was born almost 3 weeks ago (and I'm just now getting around to writing about it here). Like his big brother Wendell, he was born a couple of days after his due date, labor was quick after an earlier false alarm, and he came out healthy and weighing 8 lbs, 15 oz ( Read more... )

Neil was telling us his life plans the other day ( Read more... )

We're having a patch of blah, grey weather here (highs in the low 60s, cloudy until about 1 pm and then again after 4 or 5pm), and I'm having a hard time coping with the lack of sunshine during "summer". So I've been a bit down lately and having a hard time getting going in the mornings ( Read more... )

1. At 31 weeks, the upcoming baby is breech. I was explaining to Iris where the baby's head is and how I hope he gets turned around soon. She asked, "Would the baby be okay if he came out here (pointing just below my left ribcage ( Read more... )

is going very well, except that Wendell and I are a bit sick at the moment ( Read more... )

School's out! Yay! I realized a while ago that, due to inconvenient start and end times, I was spending about 3 hours on school drop-off and pick-up on the days when all 3 bigger kids had school/preschool and that I was getting pretty burned out on both that and the constant stream of "extra" things that the schools were asking me to do. So, I'm ( Read more... )

We're expecting a baby boy sometime right around (but hopefully not on) September 11, 2013 ( Read more... )