tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post7514783607949249555..comments2024-03-28T22:49:03.563-05:00Comments on Lag Liv: Cora and CoLLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04431706155081017734noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-18151510274300848472014-03-19T14:14:56.248-05:002014-03-19T14:14:56.248-05:00Cora's such a smiler!! And that bath pic is a ...Cora's such a smiler!! And that bath pic is a keeper! I've been reading your posts for awhile and I am so impressed with your optimistic attitude towards parenting. It's inspiring and helps me with my own perspective during the less desirable parenting moments.<br /><br />On a long shot, my husband, toddler, and I will be relocating to the FW area just for the summer (job) and are looking for a trustworthy childcare facility. Do you have any recommendations (or warnings!)?Caitlynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-70779622308134629982014-03-14T17:01:45.742-05:002014-03-14T17:01:45.742-05:00What a lovely post. This is another one for the ba...What a lovely post. This is another one for the baby books-- for each of them (My kids' "baby books" are mostly boxes full of fun stuff. The actual books were carefully filled in-- until they were born and I had other stuff to do. They love that they have the stuff, even though they won't admit it.) I know I would have loved to hear this kind of stuff written by my mom at that stage. You really captured it. Good on you!<br />Lisa M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-12679197285856890642014-03-13T21:17:29.552-05:002014-03-13T21:17:29.552-05:00Have you had yourself tested for sleep apnea. If n...Have you had yourself tested for sleep apnea. If not, do! There might be a reason and help for your insomnia.jwghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848946240656789799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-78732206902796189222014-03-13T19:04:18.275-05:002014-03-13T19:04:18.275-05:00I am so, so with you! I expected to be Done after ...I am so, so with you! I expected to be Done after A, and I just don't feel it. Even after definitive medical advice I keep thinking, "What about adoption?!" Chiconkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11824934269870487334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-74074547387798488922014-03-13T15:56:23.839-05:002014-03-13T15:56:23.839-05:00Cora is a sweetie!!! Oh thank you for saying this:...Cora is a sweetie!!! Oh thank you for saying this: But I also don't find it nearly as awful or soul-sucking as the kind-of-funny-but-mostly-mean internet postings try to make it seem. <br /><br />I feel like a lot of my friends are frustrated with their kids and complain a lot. Having my son (and #2 shortly) are the BEST things that have ever happened to me and I enjoy each day (and have some frustration, obviously). But yes, it is not something I'm just trying to "get through" and I wish society would stop making it seem like that! I already think ahead to when my son is 18 and leaving for college (hopefully, lol) and I get SO sad. Slow down, time!!!!Katenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-83212577856402362982014-03-13T15:25:36.197-05:002014-03-13T15:25:36.197-05:00These updates, and your thoughts-along-the-journey...These updates, and your thoughts-along-the-journey are so helpful and comforting to read. I know they're great for you to have and look back on too. :) <br /><br />Thank you, by the way, for adding the very useful comment on sleep. It is so different from what my approach has been, and I'm interested to incorporate your ideas with our second child. Much appreciated. Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03879565011964450619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-58153976981526889682014-03-13T14:50:51.622-05:002014-03-13T14:50:51.622-05:00I often feel the urge to have another baby but I&#...I often feel the urge to have another baby but I'm way too old now. I acknowledge the feeling and let it pass and visit your blog. lol So thanks! Whatever you decide, be happy.<br />DesimomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-58823944891865101642014-03-13T12:41:16.520-05:002014-03-13T12:41:16.520-05:00Ditto everything you said. Or, at least, I would ...Ditto everything you said. Or, at least, I would have felt EXACTLY the same way when my own #3 was 4 months. Now, he is 10 months and I'm 100% certain I still want another baby in a couple of years but I'm less certain that I really want kid #4. Now that Teddy is a real person and I have 3 KIDS and not just 2 kids and a baby, life feels much fuller and busier. Busier in the way that I have a nagging feeling sometimes that I'm not giving each kid the attention they deserve. I still love the idea of a big family and the balance a fourth would bring and the friends for life that I'd be giving each kid, but I am starting to feel that it also might be nice to move on to the after-baby stages and just give as much as I can to each of the kids that I love so much already. My husband right now claims to feel the same way JP does, but I'm pretty sure that I could convince him in a year or so to have another...after all, I convinced him to have #3. Only time will tell. For now, just enjoy the fact that Cora is so wonderful she makes you want another!<br />-LEOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-56047281537533073932014-03-13T12:20:58.286-05:002014-03-13T12:20:58.286-05:00As RG alluded to - but you don't know what joy...As RG alluded to - but you don't know what joy the next stages will bring you! When all three can ski and hike and laugh together with you as "real" people! Oh, I think you'll enjoy all the stages of their lives, but you have to let go of the baby years to get there :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-29708802551097628872014-03-13T11:49:30.527-05:002014-03-13T11:49:30.527-05:00What a sweetie. The consistency with which you ta...What a sweetie. The consistency with which you talk about 4, leaves me no doubt you'll do it. You're still so young you could do it in 8 years! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552008288188142238.post-70456915016171987622014-03-13T08:29:55.039-05:002014-03-13T08:29:55.039-05:00I wrote the nicest comment and I hate the internet...I wrote the nicest comment and I hate the internet because it ate my comment. God, it was so good, too. ERG.<br /><br />My six week old is stirring and needing to eat, so I will summarize the basic gist - I feel you. This kid is my last, and I have that knowing feeling that you are lacking. It helps that I am old - Advanced Maternal Age already with this one, so any future kids would be rolling the dice with this ancient mama. :) It was hard on my mid-thirties body to carry this last baby. However, I know plenty of folks who never feel done . . . they just sort of drift through life until biology makes the decision for them. You aren't alone in that feeling.<br /><br />As for the fleeting nature of this stage - I find it hard to ride the line between a healthy awareness that this time is flying by and I must enjoy it . . . and panic that this time is flying by and I'm losing them. Jack (my 5 yo) brought me a grubby little weed yesterday, handed it to me with such reverence, a shy sweetness . . . he saw something pretty in the yard and immediately thought of me. Stopped, mid-game, and brought it to me. I thought morosely - 'in twenty years, he'll pay money for a lovely bouquet of flowers to send me on Mother's Day, but that will be out of obligation. The time that he'll see something pretty and desperately want me to have it is almost at an end.' It seriously brought on a little panic.<br /><br />Postpartum hormones, amirite? I just have to hug my Littlest, enjoy my two Biggest boys, and look forward to middle school softball games, to the boys running through my house in a rowdy tumble and giving me a quick kiss on the cheek while they raid the fridge on their way to somewhere else. That sounds fun, too, and though I wish I didn't have to leave this fun stage behind to get to that one . . . well, I guess I do. So it goes.RGhttp://www.reluctantgrownupblog.comnoreply@blogger.com