Milestones

Do something long enough and it can almost seem like you've been doing it, well, for a long time. (That's rather redundant now, isn't it?) This past December I passed the 10 year mark for being either pregnant or breastfeeding*. Now, you may be aghast at the thought, but I am rather proud of this "accomplishment". It's tough to stick with something for that long, and 10 years (a decade!) is no mean feat. Having said that, it's not like it's really been much work for the most part. Yes, there have definitely been days (and weeks, and months!) when I didn't think I'd make it, but overall, it's almost the lazy girl's approach to mothering.


*spread over 4 children. And, yes, there was some slight overlap between the two (nursing and pregnant**) but I never made it as far as tandem nursing.

**I love how the "milk-brain" thinks tangentally rather than completing...yeah. I was remembering the time (between #2 & #3) I was shopping for a nursing bra. The sales clerk asked, "Is this for when you're pregnant, or nursing?" I replied, "Both!" She totally missed the point of my answer (I was, at that time, both pregnant and nursing) and started going on and on about how my size was going to be fluctuating and I should wait to buy a nursing bra until a certain point in my pregnancy, blah, blah ... I just ignored her and kept trying on bras.

The problem with reading classics to your children

The problem with reading classics to your children is that when you overhear them talking to their friends about the latest great book you are all reading the response is invariably, "Oh, I saw that movie! It was good!" (You think the movie was good? Try reading the book!)

At what point do my kids come to question why it seems to be that everyone else pops in the DVD instead of cracking open a tome? Thankfully, not yet anyway.

Sign on the dotted line

Well, here we go. I'm still not too sure about this whole blogging thing, but I'm ready to give in and join the blogolution. (Resistance is futile!) Actually, I think the sleep-deprivation can be blamed for a lot of it.

A lot of people I respect blog, so maybe it's not so bad. (Just - don't be like me - the silent lurker. If you happen to stop by to have a gander, you have too much time on your hands, I mean, feel free to say 'hi'!)