Post Script to Day 224: Goodbye

I have to say goodbye to you…for some personal reasons.

That is all.

EDIT:  I am fine.  My family is fine. I just cannot blog anymore.

Day 224: I need some help.

Well I feel I always need help (<–insert sarcastic tone…I’m never sure if my sarcasm comes across on this bloggy), but really this is Abigail help.

As Abby turned 9 months and is getting closer and closer to being one (ZOMG), I’m thinking about birthday parties.  I didn’t realize it was time to figure this out until so many bloggy moms that I follow began talking about birthday party plans or even posting birthday part pictures already.  (These are mostly ladies I came to know on thebump and we were all pregnant together.)

The thing, though, is I live 3000 miles away from family.

In reading about the plans of other little kiddos and their first birthday parties I think about family.  But really, having our whole family here is not a possibility.  (Waves hi to my mom reading this.  This is not a post to get you to buy a plane ticket and come out…though I know you will do what you will do.)

I also think about inviting other kids.  I mean I am starting to break out of my shell and take some leaps at meeting new mommas…in real life…but these are budding friendships and well as the summer is almost over, story times and swim lessons have to go to the wayside as I’m about to return to work.  I do have a couple friends with kids who live an hour away, but we don’t talk often and I feel a little awkward sending them a birthday invite.  Also, Abby has been out of day care all summer and well, we are looking for a new one b/c we weren’t too thrilled with them, so it’s not like she has “friends” if you will.

But man, I have visions of a wonderful birthday party for Abby…with more than just our nuclear family.  I mean she was born on November 4th, one day before my due date, and all throughout my pregnancy I had dreams of Halloween themed birthday parties.  (The hubs was even hoping I would go early and Halloween would be her actual birthday.)

So my question to all of you mommas is, what would you do?  What would you plan?  Who would you invite?  How much into this would you get into this whole birthday party planning thing?

Post Script:  We are starting sleep training tonight.  Wish us luck!

Day 223: Who needs toys?

If I knew how much Abigail would be into everything except her toys, I could have saved myself a lot of money.  This is especially true since she has gotten really good about pulling herself up.  Her Uncle got her one of those pushing toys for such an occasion…you know where she can walk down the hall with it to practice for real walking.  Well, we kept the box around since Abby hearts boxes.  And, well, check out this little gem I caught on video yesterday.  And notice at the start of the video, in the bottom right hand corner, where you can see said new toy hanging out by its lonesome.

Post Script: My vacuum now stays out all the time.  I mean when you have a very mobile child who hearts putting everything in her mouth, I need to have that thing handy.

Day 222: Don’t Forget to Breathe-Part II

A little over eight and a half years ago, my grandfather passed away from Cancer.  I was a senior at NYU.  We joked how he was kind enough to pass over winter break so I wouldn’t have to leave school.  About a week after his passing, I went back to school.

Numb.

I started a class called Writing the Human Experience.  We had an assignment.  “Tell a story,” my professor said.  So for a few nights, I got in my pajamas, slid under the covers, perched my laptop on my legs, and I wrote and cried and wrote and cried.  I ended up with 20 pages and 7 parts.  I called it “Don’t Forget to Breathe.”

Please…pretty please…don’t read this until you have read Part I.

Here is Part II… [...]

Day 221: A look into my past…pregnancy that is

I’ve often thought about how I wished I started blogging while pregnant.  I mean pregnancy has its ups and downs…it has its comedic moments and its sorrows…it has its joys and disappointments…well I could keep going on and on.  But really, pregnancy makes for some good blog fodder.  So I’ve decided to share a story with you that happened when I was pregnant, though it’s completely unrelated to my pregnancy, but the reactions I had to said events were definitely pregnancy related…you know where those hormones get in the way of you living your life and you think the world is about to end. [...]

Day 220: Back to School Blog Style…Books and Websites For You and Your Child

Welcome back to the Back to School Blog Style Series.  If you weren’t here last week, click on the “Back to School” tab up top and read all about it, and you will also find links to last week’s topic, “Tips for Success.”

Before I get down to business, I want to remind you about the movement we are trying to start…blog hop style that is.  Click here to read all about it, and of course make sure to come back to read about “Books and Websites For You and Your Child.”

OK, so the business for today’s post… [...]

Day 219: I’m taking a sabbatical.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but for the past few Sunday’s, you have seen this image show up:

Well it’s because I’m getting a bit overwhelmed with this whole 365days thing.  So I’ve decided from this day forward, that Sunday will be for sabbatical.  Perhaps I will post a picture.  Perhaps you will see my BRB sign.  And who knows, this may turn in to a Saturday and Sunday thing.  I mean my stats do tell me that not many people are into reading blogs on the weekends anyways, which is really funny if you think about it b/c it’s not like most of you who frequent my blog will even see this.  Oh well.

So I guess this is sort of a 365days blog.  Hope you don’t hold it against me.  But really, I need some defined bloggy break time.

Day 218: What would you call this?

The other morning afternoon when I was taking a shower just after putting Abigail down for a nap, strange thoughts went through my head.  You know sometimes how something echoes a certain way and sounds like something else?  Well if you don’t, it happens to me often.  (No I’m not crazy.  I just easily freak out.  I don’t watch many scary movies.)

So near the end of the shower, I could have sworn I heard Abigail crying a screechy I’m freaked out kind of cry.  Then I pictured her freaked out face in my head.  Then I pictured a crazy man with long hair and a long scraggly beard hovering over her.  Then I pictured said man taking Abby.  Then I pictured me walking into her room to find her crib empty.

Of course, my shower ended right then and there.  I went to her room, saw she was sleeping peacefully, and breathed a deep sigh of relief.

What would you call this?  Anxiety?  Crazy?  Overreaction?

Day 217: I’m looking for some lost time.

About a month ago, I noticed that some of the mommy bloggers I follow began talking about planning for their kids’  first birthday parties.  My reaction:  ZOMG!  How did this happen?  Then I realized that Abigail was soon to be 9 months old…that’s 3/4th of a year.  And well, as Wednesday came and went, Abby is officially 9 months old.

Wednesday night, before I went to bed, I was looking at what I like to call, “Abby’s Hall of Fame.”  In our upstairs hallway, we have a framed 8×10 shot of Abigail on all her month days.  Well almost as we’re behind and have yet to hang her 8 month…but still, I was looking at it, and I got all emotional.  Here’s a brief overview of what I was gazing at: [...]

Day 216: The one where Abby gives Momma a break

Yesterday afternoon I was starting to think that we were on our way to day three with no afternoon nap.  I started freaking that at the age of 9 months, Abigail decided she no longer needed it.  She was super fussy in the afternoon too.  I really needed her to take a nap.  I needed a break.  I put her in the jumperoo and a few minutes later I saw she was leaning her head back.  When I got closer, I saw her eyes were closed.

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