We left home today to drive to a friends house in Pitt ma birth where we are staying tonight, then flying to Florida for a week tomorrow. We fly back here and stay through New Years then drive home. Packing was extremely complicated, but flying out of here was half the price of Detroit.
Growing up we opened Santa presents first thing in the morning and then family gifts after a late lunch.
MIL and FIL like to sleep in, go to Christmas lunch, then come home and relax and open gifts. DS is only 2 so I think they just assume he doesn't know the difference anyways, but I do! I want him to open stuff right away! I'll let him open his Santa gifts for sure in the morning.
This is so selfish of me but I'm so excited to go to MIL's tomorrow for presents. She always goes waaaay overboard with presents for all of us. I have no idea what she got me but she's really good about going off of our lists (that she asks us for) and then throwing other cool stuff in too.
I grew up in a homogenous small town. We had no black people. No people of color. Literally. Now there are more Hispanics, Native Americans, a few blacks. Idk if the majority of people are racist, probably. However, my parents thankfully tried to find diversity, to believe all people equal, etc.
Due to this, I never know what to say/write because anything I can come up with seems woefully inadequate. I don't know much of the background and history. But in trying to do better for my kids I am learning myself. So that I can do my part to change. I am trying incredibly hard to raise my boys to do better and fight the systemic racism and injustices. Idk where my parents went right but I worry that I won't do as good of a job.
This is me, word for word. There was literally zero diversity in the tiny town I grew up in.
I'm ridiculously happy my kids will grow up in a more diverse city (although still not as diverse as a major city/area) and not have my same sheltered upbringing.
namasteak - what are you doing to help your diastasis? I don't know what to do. I have read and gotten conflicting info. Ex - My ob says Pilates is good, and then I read somewhere that doing crunches and 100s is bad.
I wrapped a bunch of presents tonight. I'm expecting an Amazon order and citrus lane order to arrive tomorrow so I'll need to wrap that stuff. I still need to run out tomorrow to get cards for DH (his birthday is on Christmas), figure out some stocking stuffers for him, and hit the grocery store. To my pleasant surprise, DH is not working tomorrow!
namasteak - what are you doing to help your diastasis? I don't know what to do. I have read and gotten conflicting info. Ex - My ob says Pilates is good, and then I read somewhere that doing crunches and 100s is bad.
I'm going to do pilates reformer classes. It's small groups (4-5 people) and the instructor is also a physical therapist.
namasteak - let me know if you think it helps! I used to take private reformer lessons but that was pre kids when i had more money to spend!
My stomach looks so awful. I need to figure something out.
Will do!
I know I won't be able to fully heal it but I'm hopeful I can shrink it and at least make it look less pudgy. It was 4 fingers after ds1 in Jan 2014 and is now 2 fingers after ds2 in Sept 2015. But the extra skin is here to stay I'm afraid
I'm doing small group classes and even then it's only because of Christmas $. If DH is willing to use some of our joint gift $ I'll be able to go twice a week for 5 months.
MH is being such an ass lately. I asked him what he was angry about, since he told me he was angry and annoyed, and he said everything. Oh, ok, great talk.
I bought a $100 bag for my Spectra (at least 10% cash back on my Chase card for Amazon this month). I decided I wanted something nice since I hate pumping but damn that stings.
My boobs are out of control. Since I have been pumping my supply has increased and I look porn star like. I need to get my freezer stash up for when I work travel but I can't take the boobs!
My sister and her H travel to Canada every year to visit his family for Xmas. He left his green card in Michigan. You are supposed to carry it with you when you travel out of the country. "Overnight" delivery won't get to them in time. So the pet/cat sitter is going to overnight it to my mom, who is going to drive to the border, give him his passport at the duty free shop, and then caravan back down to Seattle. What could possibly go wrong?
I am reading Into Thin Air (I think @this recommended it) and I am terrified for him... and I'm only like halfway through. Climbers are incredible people. I think @shoegal did some climbing and I remember being really impressed. But reading all the details in the book. DAMN.
Isn't that book AWESOME!? It is such an amazing read. When you are done, there is a cheesy made-for-TV movie based on the book that you may want to indulge in. The next mountaineering book you also *need( to read is Joe Simpson's "Touching the Void" - it is UNREAL but all true.
The Everest movie that came out in Sept (I still haven't seen it) was also based on Into Thin Air. And, the IMAX movie Everest was filmed at the same time as the '96 disaster, so also a good watch & beautifully filmed. It features Ed Viesturs, who is my climbing hero. I met him a few years ago - wow.
I climb in the pacific northwest so not as bad-ass as some big-mountain climbers, that's for sure. The folks that do K2, Everest - um, yeah, they are rockstars.
I couldn't sleep last night so I slept on my stomach and now I have a clogged duct. I am so uncomfortable and going to be miserable for Christmas Eve tomorrow. I am actually considering waking the baby up to feed to help drain it.
This always helped me and I have dream feed both my kids due to clogged ducts. Also try have the baby nurse right after using a heating pad.
This is exactly what worked. I used a hot diaper right before nursing DD and it worked.