Three Restorative Miles

Poor Chet. He is going through so many baby changes right now. After he went down to bed last night at 6:45pm, he woke up again at 8pm…and 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 1:30, 4:00, 5:30, and finally stayed awake at 7:30. Whew. I wish on nights like last night he could find comfort sleeping in ourContinue reading “Three Restorative Miles”

A Little Taste of Staying Home

The past 3 days, I’ve been home from work – Monday, car work. Tuesday, constipated baby running a fever and throwing up. Wednesday, recovering from a night of no sleep but a lot of dirty diapers and a fever breaking. A working car and a healthy baby allowed me to sink my teeth into pretendingContinue reading “A Little Taste of Staying Home”

Going Cloth

We did it! We finally switched to cloth diapers. I can not even begin to tell you how happy it makes me that my baby is rolling around in a cloth diaper.  I know it is only a diaper, but I felt guilty every single time I changed him while he was wearing throw-away diapers.Continue reading “Going Cloth”

Home is a little bit sweeter

After nearly four weeks with his dad, Cole is home. As soon as I wrapped my arms around him in the airport terminal, I was able to finally acknowledge the sadness I have been carrying around with me for the past four weeks. I missed my (first) baby boy. Although the sadness was subtle, itContinue reading “Home is a little bit sweeter”