I have this fun little button on my browser called Stumble (
www.stumbleupon.com). You set up your preferences, click the button and it takes you to a random website based on those preferences. It's really fun. Though it just took me to this website.
www.tamponcrafts.com. I'm not sure if I should be grossed out...or take notes so I can make these things too!
Oh My Gosh!!!!
I just got off the phone with my best friend all through elementary school, middle school and high school!!! That was just so cool.... Ben came in the kitchen with my cell phone and said, "There's a Michelle Wickham on the phone looking for a Brandi Brown...." I just about jumped out of my skin!! I emailed her through reunion.com ages ago, but figured there was a problem with the website, because I never heard anything from her. We talked for quite a while, though—it was really nice to connect with her again. Once we got into middle school, my Dad used to drop me off at her house in the mornings and we'd walk to school together. We were in marching band together, both played the clarinet. We worked together on Fiddler on the Roof our freshman year—I in the chorus and she on stage crew. We even tried our first cigarette together. Don't worry—I didn't inhale ;-) That was the last cigarette that ever touched my lips too!!! yuck... We even were able to walk together at graduation. I don't have much from those years. Most of my memories are ones I'd like to forget. It's refreshing to have a connection that is a positive one.
Good Heavens, I Thought This Was Supposed to End!!!
Adri has all of a sudden stopped sleeping through the night. Actually, she's never really SLEPT through the night. I've always had to get up at least once just to pat her back and help her go back to sleep. But lately even that isn't working. She's fully waking up at least twice a night, sometimes more, and in order to get her back to sleep I have to pick her up out of her crib and rock her back to sleep. In the mean time, I end up dozing off in the rocker and waking up an hour later with a kink in my neck. I put her back in her crib, and two and a half to three hours later, she's awake and we do it all over again. Then she wakes up at her normal time at 7:30. Sometimes she takes a nap, sometimes she doesn't. On the days I've tried to nap while she's napping, she's only slept for 45 minutes—just long enough for me to start to doze off. I don't mind rocking her back to sleep. I'm all for the attachment parenting thing. In fact, if there was room in our bedroom, I'd just bring her in there for a while until this passes. Am I setting a bad precedent by putting her back to sleep that way? It's not like I can't make the best of it—make myself comfortable and sleep for an hour in the chair and then put her back in her bed. I just don't want to start something with her that's going to end up making her "needy" and my life miserable.
