A Full Life
Adlai has started to cautiously walk across a room with one of his hands firmly planted in the palm of a parent and he can stand for up to 15 seconds. It won’t be long before he has the courage to take those first few steps on his own. Next week would be a good time. The week starts with our anniversary, follows on with Halloween, and ends with my birthday. To celebrate, I’ve taken the week off (sort of – I have a deal to work two hours a day) to just be at home and get a few things done – maybe have time to post the boppy photo, update the banner of this page, get a new photo in the upper left. More likely, I’ll do none of that and just hang out with my boys.
“Busy” doesn’t seem to capture our lives lately. I’ve realized that I don’t even stand up at work unless I’m on my way to or from a meeting or to or from the Mom room. Once home, there is nursing, and cooking (often three variations of the same meal), and eating, and bathing, and more nursing, and bedtime followed by an hour of dishes, and laundry, and picking up toys, and lunch preparation, and list making. I never call anyone and I rarely respond to personal email. I love Facebook because I can feel connected to my friends at a glance - it is fast and easy and doesn’t require a response. Someday I will look back on this time and wonder how we managed. In answer to my future self, we just do. Frankly, the schedule isn’t a heck of a lot of fun. I miss sleeping and exercising and leaving the pump and/or the baby for more than two hours at a time. Two months from now, when pumping ends, I’ll have a whopping two hours a day returned and I will celebrate by leaving the house without a large black bag for four hours in a row.
I think I might even be daring and spend that time with Matthew. Matthew’s schedule hasn’t been any easier than mine. He has a master list of things that must be done and a list of things we need to buy and a calendar full of play dates, appointments, nap times, school drop offs and pick ups. Next week he’ll add teaching twice a week and grading. Somehow, in all of this, he has managed to find time to create a blog : I KEN RITE FUN-EE
I’ve always thought of Matthew as particularly hilarious and I’m glad he is finally combining his writing talent with his quick wit and deep sarcastic tendencies. Just as I have warned that this is a site about babies and if you don’t want to hear about babies, you shouldn’t be reading this site, I will warn you that Matthew’s blog is not about our lives but about his ability to tell a story. He may write something that offends your sensibilities and, if so, use the little X (or the red circle for you Mac folks) on your browser window and do not return.* I, however, recommend you start reading from the very beginning of his posts and enjoy!
*Clearly, I’m still a little bitter about losing friends via the things I’ve written here - I don’t want that to happen to him.