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When I need to be patient I count in my head. The number I count to.... my age plus 2. Why? It's the amount of candles that should be on my cake (if I even had candles on a cake like this anymore) at my next birthday. I've done this since I was 10 :) Every year the number seems scarily too high!
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I met him when I was 27 and we got married when I was 29 a year and a half later. Kiernan was born a year and 3 days later :) When you know what you want you don't diddle daddle around ;)
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I started a blog when I was pregnant on a pregnancy related site to share my experience with my friends and family. Right before K was born I started my blogger one for the same reason.
Slowly I discovered there were TONS and TONS of other mom bloggers out there and I started reading them all and loving it.
I've often flip flopped between wanting a big and popular blog like some that I read, and being happy with my small little blog. But over all, I love the community of blogging (and twitter) and know that parenting would have been much harder for me without it! -
Oh lord, I don't know that we did it in any fabulous way. Here is a random list as it comes to me:
1) Start packing early. About 1/4 of our stuff was already packed and gone before we sold the house so that helped.
2) If my inlaws and parents hadn't been around, we wouldn't have made it. They helped watch kids, move furniture, paint, decorate.
3) Remember it's not forever and just push through.
4) Create a room in the new place that is completely baby proofed from the start. Then you know you have a safe spot to stick the babies while you're doing other things.
5) Try and find care for the kids outside of either home during the big move time.
6) Buy beer and wine. Is that bad advice? Too bad.
7) Don't expect to come out from the chaos for months, unless you're better than me.
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We are SO done! We've done really well with the three kids that we have and I'm thrilled to have this big a family, but I don't think having more would be the right choice for us - especially since we could end up with TWO more again ;)
I know I will very likely get the urge for babies again, but I also know I shouldn't give in. I too like the idea of fostering one day though. -
I love food in general, it's always so hard to pick! I love Indian food an often say it's my fave. But I could also pick something and simple and comforting as ham and potatoes. I think I'll go with Indian here. Or cheese, but that's probably just because I miss it (10 months and counting now ;)
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Consciously tried for one. I read a bunch of stuff online when K was little and again this time and chose to try to separate day from night as concretely as possibly and have a set nightly bedtime. I was shocked with K when it worked. I think we started with a 9pm bedtime at 2 months or so and around 4 months moved it to 7 successfully.
One tip I liked was to get kids dressed during the day and keep PJs for night. Now, trust me, I don't successfully get this done every day. And often I don't get them dressed until afternoon, but most days I do try. Whether this helps or not is questionable too :)
They go down easily at 7, I just don't seem to have children who like to sleep long stretches at night. Took K until 18 months to sleep through the night on any consistent basis. Now he's a dream sleeper though.
Daytime pretty much works with me putting them to bed when they start getting whiny. -
I think all 3 of our kids have had a fairly set bedtime by at least 3 months - maybe 4 (I'm a bit fuzzy on timelines at the moment). They go to bed by 7 or 7:30 and unless they are being PARTICULARLY fussy, don't come out into common areas again until morning. With our older son we had more of a routine which included stories and all that, but now it's pretty much "change into PJs, nurse, sleep". Fancy! ;)
Daily routines were pretty fluid until more like 4 or 5 months old and now at 8 months tend to be wake up, stay awake about 2 hours, nap (for a very unpredictable amount of time) stay awake for about 2 hours, nap, stay awake until bedtime unless naps were too short then freak out around 5 and go to bed early :) -
Um, thank you!
Yes, I get a lot of support from my husband. I do the nights because he needs to function during the day. In return he gets up with the kids in the morning and on the weekends lets me sleep in until 9 and sometimes 10! He is always fine with me going out and is great with the kids. I am very lucky. -
I do get me time. I'm very lucky and have a lot of support from family as well as my husband. What I do varies. Sometimes I go out with friends (I've gone to a couple of tweetups recently and met new friends!) or sometimes I just go get groceries BY MY SELF. I also stay up way too late and watch tv and hang out online. :)
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Definitely!! It's hard because Q is a snuggle monster and J likes to jump and wiggle and squirm. So I spend a lot more time just cuddling with Q, because he'll let me. And if I'm going to bring one of them into bed with me I bring him, because he sleeps and she talks and talks and squirms around. And I feel bad that I spend so much more quiet time with him than her.
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