I just realized I ran out of scheduled posts. OOPS! Well hello, here I am in real-time again :). Yes, I had some real-time posts in the last couple of months, but for the most part my posts were scheduled. I hope you enjoyed the series of guest posts (I sure did!) and I hope you’re also happy to have me back :].
I have so many things I want to share with you. The transition from 1 to 2. Thoughts on thankfulness. Random things I remembered from teaching. An awesome chocolate shortbread recipe. A new toy I got… which begot a new idea on how to save time in the kitchen. My dad’s potato pork pancake recipe (*drool* finally got reproducible measurements out of him, which is a WIN for all generations to come!). There is so much to share. I have no idea how I will find the time to get it all out. Oh well. We’ll figure it out.
In the meantime, here are two things that I wanna put out there today:
- I am well-loved by my friends. After my baby boy came out a few weeks ago, people started visiting and dropping off some of my favorite things in the world: chocolate dipped shortbread from Hawaii, egg custard tarts from Golden Gate Bakery, chocolate almond croissants from Bouchon Bakery, chocolate kouign ammans, morning buns from La Farine, a variety of desserts from Fleur de Cocoa, bread from Tartine, cookies from Antoine’s. Oh man, it was AWESOME. So awesome that I frequently found myself thinking, “Man, I should have babies more often!” (And then I thought maybe just driving to these places would be easier than 9 months of carrying a baby…). But seriously, I was basking in dessert HEAVEN! And it was all being DELIVERED TO ME! Totally spoiled. I know. I love my friends. And clearly, they love me :D. Thanks, guys!
- Things have been better between me and my daughter. I had recently posted on how she was breaking my mommy heart. While I am glad that she didn’t take it out on her new little brother, it was a really hard thing for me to go through. Well, here’s an update: things are better! It wasn’t easy, but one particularly rough night found me sobbing in the guest bedroom, wondering if I would ever have my sweet babygirl back again. I finally approached Ben and told him it was okay to move past I-feel-bad-for-you mode and move on to let’s-find-a-solution mode. And so we found a solution. Basically it involves me carving out special one-on-one time with just her. So I sacrifice a chunk of time when I am usually able to catch a nap and instead take her out the the park, just the two of us. I am already pretty sleep-deprived, but now that I’ve tried out this plan, I can confirm that being tired is better than being sad! I can’t say it’s just like old times, but our relationship has definitely improved from a month ago.
Anyway Ben and I had made big plans to watch some TV tonight… so I am gonna end this post here and go veg :].
Scratch that. The baby just started crying. Another time… *sigh* :]
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love the update! 🙂 glad to hear you’re doing well!
Thanks, Nancy! =D
I’m so glad things are going better my friend! Hugs!
Thank you, Dakota!!