A list just because … just because there is all sorts whirling around in my head and I need to siphon it out. I need a Pensieve! I suppose I do really use my blog like a Pensieve. It’s a February Evening list because it’s the evening right now, and it is February.
1. I have had a half finished granny square on my hook for a week. A WEEK! I have just finished hooking it now and feel better for doing so.
2. My crochet mojo has waned since completing the Boaty Blanket, but I think it’s just because I currently have “blogging mojo” and “cleaning mojo”. As those aren’t things to be discouraged I’m not too worried about the crochet mojo.
3. I’m a bit addicted to the “4 pics 1 word” game on my ipad. I play it while I’m stood outside TTB’s door waiting for him to sleep (update soon). Andy helped me with ones I got stuck on this weekend (I’ve only had it since Saturday) but today I got stuck on the very first one and had to wait until he came home from work so that I could move on to the next one! V annoying.
4. I am also addicted to “One Born Every Minute”. I’ve never watched this before partly because of not having a TV and partly because I didn’t want to watch any kind of labour while I was pregnant and I am very glad that I had my baby first before watching this programme. Also, soooooooo glad I had a c section! Cor. I’m watching them all on 4OD and my (only a year or so old) laptop hates it and overheats and shuts down. Fortunately they play really nicely on my ipad.
5. I love thinking about TTB’s birth now, I’m in such a happy place about it all.
6. On my table next to me right now I have 4 different types of handcream and also a tube of lansinoh. I think I buy them and then lose them and then buy more and then find them again. Still have dry hands as I keep forgetting to put it on.
7. My knees hurt a lot. I couldn’t work out why. Then I realised … I’ve been lugging a 17lb baby around in the Ergo over the past week. Mystery solved. Note to self … order footmuff so that I can make the pram into a pushchair and use that.
8. 3rd set of baby jabs this week. SOB! 3 injections. I hate hate hate taking him for these. I know that it’s worth it but Oh! voluntarily causing my baby to have pain is horrible. They do it in one leg and he screams and grabs at me with his arms and I have to turn him around and let them do it in the other leg too. And then this time it’s 3 not just 2! (And of course then the whole rest of the day/night suffers from the resulting high temperature and grumpy baby …)
9. Calpol! I said before how much he hates it (I always did too, vile stuff) but now, NOW he has started clamping his jaw together and pursing his lips so hard that I cannot administer it. He’s a strong, determined little boy that’s for sure.
10. I have too much stuff in my house. I am attempting to get rid of this stuff.
11. While tidying today I found a voting registration thing from July that I hadn’t returned a massive dead spider in one of my hats. This was not pleasing to me.
12. The blue sky and mild temperature today was blissful.
13. TTB came and watched Bramble hop around the yard today. He thought that was super. However, he was far more excited to see Slash on Top Gear (I watch iPlayer while he plays) and each time he was on the screen he was going “ooooh! hoo! hoo hoo! haaaaaaooOOOO!” in his sweet little voice.
14. I find that when there are er, disgusting baby related disasters I just think “oh well” and just “and then this is how we deal with that” and just get on with dealing with it and sort it out. Pre-baby it would have completely grossed me out. Now I just … cope.
15. Talking of coping, I took him to Birmingham (a place I’ve never been to before) on the train the other week, without even paying the idea much thought. Oh how far I have come from that first trip out of the house with him 8 days after he was born and I felt so scared and freaked out about being out of the house and as though I’d escaped from somewhere I was meant to stay, and had to keep looking at him in the pram to make sure he was still there. Wow.
16. I made home made pizzas for dinner tonight but when I came to make the dough I’d forgotten how to make it. I bodged it and it turned out better than usual. Just wish I could remember what I did …
17. I’m changing around all my kitchen cupboards. Now I keep going to get a bowl from the place where the saucepans now are.
18. I hate my bed.
19. I am going to be 27 this year. I’m sure I was only 23 last time I checked.
20. I wish I had some more biscuits.
Hurray for a good list!
So pleased you’re feeling better about the birth now. And 4OD is a complete nightmare on every computer, I’ve already had a do with it this evening. (Can’t watch it in Chrome, have to watch on Internet Explorer for some reason.)
So jealous of your pizzas for tea. I haven’t had pizza in so long.
I was also thinking how good it is that you are now in a good place about your birth. Sometime things in our lives don’t go the way we want them to but after the fog clears we see what that journey resulted in, for you your son, and it puts things into perspective, BUT it is a journey we need to take, learn from and understand. It makes us stronger.
You sound happy xx
I hear you on number 8! I wish I could tell you it gets better, but I am afraid it doesn’t. You have to take him less and less, though, until one day you’ll have to no more.
I was 23 last time I checked..sadly that was 27 years ago!!!! Your best years are still to come …trust me ;) CARPE DIEM
Yep, I know the feeling!! Time really flies!!! and before you know it TTB will be leaving school and you’ll be wondering where all that time had gone so quickly!!! My girls are now 20 and almost 22 and I sooooo wish they were still 3 and 4 years old. But I am sooooooooooo
greatfull to still have them living with us!!!! So make the most of every minute of the day with them!!!!!!
Love
AMarie
Yep, I know the feeling!! Time really flies!!! and before you know it TTB will be leaving school and you\’ll be wondering where all that time had gone so quickly!!! My girls are now 20 and almost 22 and I sooooo wish they were still 3 and 4 years old. But I am sooooooooooo
greatfull to still have them living with us!!!! So make the most of every minute of the day with them!!!!!!
Love
AMarie
My little boy (not so little now – he is 10!) HATED calpol and still does. I used disprol for him instead and when he was old enough Nurofen for children. Both of mine love that in orange flavor. There are other options other than calpol, so you might want to have a look in your local chemist.
Hi! I totally agree with #3, my hubby and I have been addicted to it too. I have it on my iPhone and ran out of puzzles…I hope it updates soon LOL. Oh and I agree with #19 too with the exception that I will be 30 but could swear I was 23 just recently too. HAHA
Love your list. I got addicted to One Born Every Minute after I had Stashlet – I think I used it as some kind of catharsis for getting my head round the birth, even though mine wasn’t particularly traumatic. Have you tried a syringe for getting the Calpol in? Just don’t do it in one big squirt or it may all come back out again. Oh yeah, and the age thing – I know exactly what you mean. I still feel 25 but the reality is a lot, lot worse…
omg my whole entire family is addicted to Top Gear! We never miss it on BBC America. But the new episodes come slowly, which is not too bad because they’re all so funny, we don’t mind watching them over again. And its official…I’m in love with James May.
Love your list, love your blog. You cheer me up when life is being a pain. Thank you:)