I do not have time to write blog posts at the moment.
Seriously.
I’ve sat down a dozen times this last week to start one and I always get interrupted before I’ve written four lines.
(Mike might say that this is because the pace I write at approximates the flow of molasses during a blizzard. Then again he might not say that, because if he did I would glare at him.)
Anyway.
What have I been doing other than making time to write blog posts?
Well.
1. Spending time with family doing things like shopping for two years worth of baby clothes and wine tasting. (They have wineries in Virginia, who knew?).
2. Preventing Dominic from eating seeds from a cardboard box he found and ripped open. (At least, I think I caught him before he ate any.)
3. Helping my sister sift and sort her shoes, and simultaneously preventing Dominic from chewing on the bottom of a pair of dirty flip-flops. (Some might say that the fact that I distracted Dominic by alternatively dangling him upside down and allowing him to chew on the shoelace of a nearby pair of sneakers makes me a bad mother. In response to that I would smile serenely and declare that, no, I am a good mother.)
4. And in defense of my good mothering I would point to the fact that I’ve been getting up between three and six times a night to comfort and/or feed a fussing baby who has a nasty habit of losing his pacifier and then lying around whining until his servants scamper to return it to him. (And do not even think about mentioning sleep training to me right now. You try to sleep train a baby when you’re a guest in other people’s houses for five weeks and you’re moving locations every four days or so.)
5. Yes, I may also have been getting a touch irritable because of lack of sleep.
6. Rerouting away from irritability to … ice cream!! We fed Dominic his first ice cream on our trip up to Pennsylvania last week and it was a huge hit.
7. Speaking of ice cream I haven’t done my official end-of-trip weigh in yet, but I can confidently report that I’m making good progress on my stated goal of gaining ten pounds during this holiday. (I do not think we can ever live in America again. I’m not sure I can be trusted in the land of Ben & Jerry’s, ribs, sweet potato fries, brie, good wine, Chick Fil’A and standard restaurant servings deliver 5634 calories).
8. Speaking of calories, when we were up in Pennsylvania we visited Hershey’s Chocolate World where one of the things we did was get all dressed up as if we were touring operating theatres and create our own chocolate bar. (I had mine stamped with my own name. Mike being Mike, he put Dominic’s name on his so that we can give it to him for his first birthday. Let’s hope Dominic doesn’t turn out to be allergic to chocolate.)
9. If he is allergic to chocolate, however, I now know what to do about it thanks to this morning doctor’s visit where the pediatrician prescribed me two EpiPens to take home and walked me through what to do in case of a severe allergic reaction.
10. And last but not least I’ve been spending any spare time doing things like proofing the back cover design for Love At The Speed Of Email, starting to draft guest posts, and getting some other publicity balls rolling. Less than a month until the books now! I’m so excited to share more details with you over the next couple of weeks.
That’s all from me for now, so over to you. What have you been doing with yourself or your family lately?
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Love the Hershey pics and am jealous you have really good reason to shop for kids’ clothes and drink good wine 😉
Yeah, I’m not too fussed. Although I am also glad I’m going back to the land of sticky rice and lots of walking.
Totally understand about not blogging, I’ve been having too much other to do a lot of blogging, myself lately. I am happy to hear that you are enjoying your vacation.
Yes, when you get squeezed for time (or, more squeezed) you realize how much time blogging generally takes.
I think your time has been well spent! And Domenic is looking more angelic with every photo.
Yes, it’s easy to get him to look angelic when we take 800 photos and post only 5 🙂
100% understand about lack of sleep and lack of sleep training whilst staying at other people’s houses! Noah always recommenced waking multiple times a night on every international trip and demanding feeding (regardless of having achieved 12 hours uninterrupted sleep before the trip). It only stopped when he was weaned. I think we sleep trained him 10 times before then! Ouch!
Enjoy your time in the USA with family and friends!
Big sigh. Maybe I’m not going to bother sleep training at all. Surely by the time he’s 2 he’ll have figured it out, and we’re almost halfway there. (PS, don’t tell Mike that this might be the new plan. I suspect he won’t like it.)
Oh good, I was starting to wonder if I’d messed up the email-me-your-blog thing.
Yeah, no way could you train yourself to not freak out when you hear crying in an unfamiliar place in the middle of the night surrounded by other people who might wake up and join you on the grouchy side of sleepless unless you get that paci in the baby’s mouth pronto. I’m with you: the in-laws are here and I’m doing the same thing to avoid a repeat of the father in law saying, “I’d hoped to sleep in later,” their first morning here. Excuse me!?
Ha ha haaaaa. That’s when you smile sweetly and say, “yes, I’d hoped to sleep in later, as well. Perhaps we could take it in turns the rest of your visit to sleep in the baby’s room so that on the off nights the other parties can get better sleep?”
As for the email. Let me know if it stops again. I think there’s something funky going with the settings. I’m thinking about switching my email list to a more flexible service than feedburner. Ahhh, all these techi things to learn.
I love seeing you with your family, Lisa. Much love, Sandra.
Thanks Sandra. It was lovely to see you in Michigan!
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