Am I the only one who thinks that the plastic wrap companies should go back to their old style of cutters? I hate the “no hassle”, “easy to use”, “we don’t want to get sued by someone cutting their finger” slide cutters they’ve switched to. I waste more plastic wrap because it gets bunched up under the cutter and then I have to let go of it to un-bunch it, and then the rest of it clings to itself. It takes 10 times longer to wrap anything.
Maybe I’m just not smart enough to use them.
Now that Carolyn’s room is almost done, I’ve been shopping for accessories. She needs a bookcase, and a place to put her toys, and right now this is the most likely candidate. (Yes, it’s bit more than I’d normally spend, but it’s perfect in every way. And it takes the place of both a toy box and a bookcase, which together would add up to close to that anyhow. Like how I justify these things?)
I’m also looking for something to play music on in her room – a small boombox that plays CDs, or even better mp3 CDs. Why is it, though, that every other appliance in the world – blenders, toasters, cameras, phones, etc. – come in pretty colors like pink, but CD players just come in basic black? I don’t want to put an ugly black stereo in my little girl’s pastel room. Even white would be better, but I can’t find anything that’s white, either. I did find a Disney Princess themed CD player, but it’s twice as much as a regular black one and it has very mixed reviews on amazon. (It’s a little worrisome when more than one reviewer mentions the CD player part of the unit not working after a few months.)
It’s not as though this is a life-or-death decision here. Sometimes I wonder why I’m bothering – especially since it’s not like Carolyn knows or cares what her CD player should look like. Ah, well. It’s the curse of being a detail-oriented person, I guess.
It’s been six months since I bought any yarn at all. Yes, you read that right, six entire months! This was not an intentional yarn-buying ban or anything. I didn’t buy any yarn in August, and then I went on bed-rest at the beginning of September, and I didn’t buy any yarn online (although I looked at plenty). Then Carolyn was born, and I haven’t been to a yarn shop since.
So today I rewarded myself with two skeins of Manos in a pretty striated blue for a scarf.
Next weekend if I have time during all the baptism preparations, or the weekend after if I don’t, I’m going to bring Carrie to my favorite yarn store and buy yarn for a sweater I’ve been longing to make for her. Of course, I promise I’ll finish the ladybug sweater first. Honest.
Well, they don’t quite fit like they used to, but my jeans fit again! Yippee! After having worn pretty much nothing but black stretchy maternity pants for the past 9 months, it’s kind of strange to look down and see blue. Strange, but wonderful.
I’m probably crazy, but I agreed to accompany the high school musical this year. They’re doing Anything Goes, which I’ve never actually seen. I’ve been immersing myself in the music for days now, listening to the CDs and playing through the accompaniment book. I even put De-Lovely on my Netflix list.
Carolyn is going to accompany me to a lot of rehearsals over the next three months. She’ll either really love theater when she gets older or really hate the whole concept – and she may not even know why. I have to be totally insane to have agreed to this, though. I mean, what if I’m in the middle of playing a song and she totally freaks out? Or gets hungry? Or…? (Not to mention that some of this music is kind of hard, and my practice time is somewhat limited at the moment.)
Oh, well. I’m just going to have to trust that it will work out. And bring lots of fun, quiet toys…
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
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…
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!
I just finally got Carolyn’s two month pictures off the camera and sized them so I could publish her two month birthday post.
If you think that’s bad, I’m also just getting around to finding a place to have a party after her baptism. Which is in 19 days. This could be fun…
Santa was very, very good to Carolyn. Although right now it looks like he actually came and trashed our house rather than leaving presents, but that’s only because there are new toys and clothes covering every square inch of the living room floor. She has enough 3-6 month sized clothes now to wear a new outfit every day for at least a month, I think. And we – oh, wait, I mean, Carolyn – got some really cool new toys and books.
I’m really glad I wrapped her presents, because even though she couldn’t unwrap things herself, she was really interested in the colorful, crinkling paper, and was all smiles while we opened things up for her.