Month: January 2005

Slow Down!

Sarah Growing Up

Dear Carolyn,

This morning I put away your 0-3 month clothes. You won’t be 3 months old for another three weeks, but they were getting too small – especially length-wise. I’m very sad, because I loved your pink puppy outfit, your flower-power outfit, and your ducky pajamas. You do have some awfully cute 3-6 month clothes, though. And you have a lot of them! I think, once we do the laundry tonight, that you might have more outfits than Daddy and I have together…

The other thing that happened today was that you somehow managed to put your binky in your mouth all by yourself. I put you in your crib so I could take care of a couple of things, and I know you didn’t have your binky when I left because you were smiling at me. I came back, and you were happily sucking away at it. How did you do it?!? You’re barely grabbing at things, and I’ve never seen you put anything in your mouth on purpose yet – except maybe your hands.

You’re growing much too fast, baby girl…

Love, Mommy

Stuff

Sarah General

We’ve been working on Carolyn’s room lately. The new closet is installed (we stripped out the shelf & rod that were in there before we started painting), the curtain rods are up, and we’ve just got a few things left to do before we can declare it done.

I’m feeling totally overwhelmed by the stuff that’s all over the house, though. A lot of it will be put away in Carrie’s closet, but there will still be stuff everywhere. We need a toy box – actually, it would be good to have one in her room and one in the living room. We need a bookcase in her room. And then we need a dumpster for all of the other stuff!

Carolyn’s baptism is two weeks from yesterday. I’d like to have her room completely put together, the entire downstairs picked up – including taking down the Christmas tree – and the craft room usable again. That sounds like a lot…

Happy New Year!

Sarah General

Well, like last year, my craft room is once again a complete disaster area, although this year it’s due to the baby stuff that’s all over the bed and floor waiting for the baby’s closet to be finished. Obviously, not making resolutions last year didn’t work so well. I’m not very good at this resolution thing. I do have a few goals for this year, though:

I’d really like to get my house in order. Actually, this is going to be very important, because Carolyn is going to be into everything before we’re ready! This probably means getting rid of a lot of stuff, because we just have too much stuff to put in the places we can put stuff in.

I’d like to lose some weight. But I don’t want to diet, I just want to eat healthier. I’m actually back to pre-pregnancy weight, which is a good start. I’m not planning on thinking about how far I have to go, though, I’m just looking for a general downward trend.

I need to get back into knitting and music. I haven’t done much of either since Carolyn was born, and I miss them. Neither seems to be a high priority when I can barely get enough sleep, eat, or clean my kitchen on a regular basis though.

This year is going to be about redefining myself. I’m now officially a stay-at-home mom, and I need to learn what that means. And how to answer people when they ask what I do. But my biggest goal this year is to enjoy every minute of it!