You Mean, There's a World Out There?

Hiya. I've been kind of lost in my own world for a while, here. I've thought of lots of things to blog about, but then, just when I think I might catch a few minutes of blogging time, Maddie wakes up, or Angie climbs on my lap and insists on bothering spending some quality time with me. And I've been working on losing some of this excess baby weight, ten pounds of which I still carry from when Angie was born, and another ten from Maddie. I tip the scales at about 158 pounds (is that approximate enough for you) and I've a jelly belly that Angie delights in poking, just so she can see it wiggle. I started walking, about a week and a half ago, two miles at night after the kids are in bed. (Did I just say kids? Weird.) I feel good about it, but I need new sneakers, because my arches are killing me. I finally got my birthday present (from last year) -- an MP3 player. I bought a Philips 4GB one and I'm ripping all of my CDs to MP3. It's amazing...I didn't know I had so many CDs until I pulled them out of storage. I've a lot of good music! I gave all of my cassettes to Sandie for her garage sale and she sold them for a whopping $5 -- there were well over a hundred cassettes and I told her to sell them with the crate. (Funny story -- the guy who bought them thought each cassette was $5 and was willing to buy them at that price. He was picking and choosing when Sandie told him the whole lot was $5 with the crate.) I'm having some behavior issues with Angie, right now, but I think part of that is my reaction to it. I get frustrated easily these days with some of her behavior quirks and that leads to unhappiness for both of us. I'm trying to ease up on that and be more patient. On days when I can remind myself to be patient, we deal well with each other. But it bugs me when she comes upstairs and makes tons of noise while I'm trying to get Maddie back to sleep for a longer nap (she wakes up at 45 minutes like clockwork.) I'm trying not to yell at her for it. I need to put some quiet toys up there for her to play with...maybe I should make a quiet book. And bring some of her puzzles up there. Ok. Time to go take a shower. I'm trying out NOT swaddling Maddie tonight. She's been escaping working her way out of her swaddling blanket these last few nights a bit too frequently and easily. So, I need to be prepared for more freqent wakings, thus the early shower and bedtime. Love to stay and chat, but times a wasting!



Goodnight.