Saturday August 11, 2012
I wake up. It’s still
dark, but I don’t hear Will making any noises so I lay there for a minute
trying to figure out what woke me. I
roll over to look at my phone and am shocked to see it is 5:35. Will rarely sleeps through the night, like
once a month or more . He normally wakes
up between 12:30 – 1:30 to nurse and then sleeps till 6. (He did wake up at 10:00 when we went to bed
but if it’s before 12, he gets the pacifier.
) I think it’s a combination of I
normally wake up at 5:30 during the week and since Will didn’t wake up, I am a
bit uncomfortably engorged. I know I am going
to have a hard time going back to sleep so I get up and get Will to feed
him. I figure he’ll wake up soon anyhow
5:45 : I crawl back in bed and find a blanket. Brian opened a window last night and it got
to 59 degrees so it’s pretty cool in the room.
6:05: Grr I am still awake.
It’s Saturday I need to fall back asleep since I can sleep in. My eyes still are heavy, but I can’t fall
asleep. Since Will’s tummy is full, he’ll
probably sleep a little longer than normal too.
I match my breathing to Brian’s and sure enough I’m only awake a minute
or two.
6:58: I wake up to Will’s stirring. I ask Brian to go and give him the
pacifier. He comes back and says I doubt
he’ll go back to sleep at 7:00 and I say I know but maybe it’ll give us 10 min
to lounge in bed
7:52: I realize Will
is ‘talking’. Again I roll over to see
what time it is and am surprised to see 50 minutes has gone by. It only felt like only a couple minutes, but
apparently I fell asleep. Will must have
too after getting the pacifier, because I am fairly certain he wouldn’t have
laid there for almost an hour awake. Brian
and I reminisce for a couple minutes about past Saturday mornings when we’d
wake up at 8:30 and lay in bed for another hour talking.
8:00 I get up to go get Will. I bring him back to Brian in bed so I can put
my contacts in since Will likes to grab at my glasses since I don’t normally
wear them.
8:10 Change Will and get him dressed for the day. For most of the summer, he went through the
whole day nearly naked, but for once it won’t be 100 degrees so he actually
gets a short sleeved shirt and shorties.
8:15 He fussed
through the whole diaper change which leads me to believe he’s hungry even
though it is a bit early than I would have thought so I nurse him.
8:20 (yes he typically only nurses for 5 min) I get dressed and we all head down
stairs. I put Will in the living room to
play while I get something to eat. He isn't crawling so he stays put where we put him, I know that will change soon enough but right now I'm loving it. We
had bacon and eggs for supper last night and there is left over bacon so I have
the same thing for breakfast plus a bagel and coffee with milk and hazelnut
syrup. Brian just has bacon and coffee.
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| I wear business casual clothes M-F so on the weekend its shorts, a tee & ponytail. |
8:30 Will is still
playing in the living room pretty peacefully so I let him continue while I pick
things up around the house. By the
weekend stuff starts piling up from the week so I try and put a few things
away. Brian reads the paper and we
discuss the plan of attack for the day.
Hay needs mowed, beans need picked, potatoes, onions & garlic need
dug and wall boxes need built for said potatoes, onions & garlic. Beans need done while Will is sleeping so that will either be during afternoon nap or
after he goes to bed for the night.
9:00 Brian goes out to dig the hay bine (implement that cuts
the alfalfa & grass without shredding it) out & goes to mow hay. I move Will out to the kitchen so I can load
the dishwasher. We have different
‘stations’ around the house with different toys so the new toys will keep Will
entertained for a little bit while I get something done. This time it only lasts 10-15 min so I join
him on the floor and he’s satisfied having me sit beside him while he plays and
help him stack rings.
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| Hay bine is buried in the back so multiple other things need moved out of the way. |
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| Bye Bye, be back in about 4 hours. |
9:40 Will is getting
a fussy so we go upstairs for a diaper change and nap. Maybe all babies are like this but he has a
10 minute window where he does down for naps easily by giving him a pacifier
and lying him in his crib otherwise he can be a bear to go to sleep.
9:45 When I get downstairs I realize the monitor isn’t
working. It does that sometimes, it just
needs the base power turned off and then back on but I’m not about to go back
into his room and risk him not going to sleep.
We can sort of hear him if he cries out from downstairs without the
monitor so I just keep an ear open. I do
some Facebookin’ & put a load of towels in the washer and do some diaper
folding during some Chopped episodes that are DVR’ed that I haven’t watched
yet.
10:45 Will tends to
sleep in ½ hour increments so I go up to
very quietly open his door to see if he’s awake and just laying there. It’s quiet so I even quieter close the door
and go back downstairs after getting our sheets off the bed to wash.
11:30 I still haven’t
heard anything from upstairs so I go back up again to check on Will. This time when I open the door I hear
stirring. When I go to him, he is still
rubbing his eyes very sleepily so I know he must have woke up when the door
opened. It’s been over 3 hours since he
ate last so I’m sure that had something to do with it too. We nurse again and change diaper. I put my work clothes in a laundry basket
along with Will and go downstairs.
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| he found his pacifer stash! |
11:45 Will plays again in the living room while I fold the
towels and watch more Chopped
12:15 Lunch: I get
Will’s lunch of 1 oz of green beans and about ½ oz of quinoa and 1 oz of
apricots out of the freezer and put the green beans and quinoa in a bowl to
warm up. While that’s warming, I reheat
some of Thursday’s supper of Chicken enchilada casserole or I like to call it
Mexican chicken lasagna for myself.
 Side note: Quinoa is not very well known around here, my babysitters and mom had to ask what it was and said they have never heard about it. May they would if they seen it spelled, either way I'm pretty sure they think I'm wierd |
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1:00 It’s not very sunny or warm today but I washed the
sheets so they are getting hung on the line.
Like most of the country we have had record temperatures so this 64
degrees at 1:00 is crazy cool. I put a
jacket on Will to go out. One thing
about having babies, they make things take longer than they normally
would. I can’t just go out to hang up
the sheets, I have to bring him with me and that usually involves an extra trip
to and from.
1:15 While Will has a coat on we go out to gather eggs. When we get in there, one of the hens is
still sitting in box so we leave without disturbing them. We normally don’t gather eggs until the
evening anyhow. We go over and check out
the pigs. We had the vet out earlier in
the week because several of them were coughing weird. We lost a pig last year doing something
similar so I certainly didn’t want to take a chance with 4 or 5 pigs this
year. They aren’t doing any coughing so
I’m happy. The mail came while we were
in the chicken coop so we got that too.
1:45 I put Will down
for a minute when we get back in the house to wash my hands and he wasn’t very
happy about it. We play at the learning
table for a little while before afternoon nap.
2:15 It’s that time
again: Diaper change, nurse, nap. Falls
asleep nursing, but I make sure I can hear the monitor working downstairs this
time.
2:25: Facebook check
and I start typing this up since it has to be done by tomorrow night.
3:00 Brian gets home from mowing hay. He has the same lunch as I did and he tells
me how it went. Not good but he got it
done. There is a small field behind our
house he has to finish and then he can work on stuff for me.
3:30 Will is still sleeping so we watch a little of the
Olympics for a while
4:20 Dude is still sleeping!! He usually takes 2 hour naps during the week
at the babysitter but on the weekend I’m lucky to get an hour at a time. Since he normally goes to bed at 7, I decide
to get him up. I don’t want to mess his
night routine up too much. I love the
first 30-45 minutes after a nap, he is so happy and good humored. Brian goes out to finish mowing the last 3
acres of hay.
4:30 More playing
and laundry. ( I don’t do much during
the week can you tell??) Put some back
bone (pork) in the oven for supper.
5:30 Nursing time
again.
5:45 We have
neighbors who have honey bees so we take a gator ride down to get some but they
aren’t home. But they have 3 buffalo and
some different cattle they raise for meat so we check them out. When we get back we start talking about the
potato boxes and find wood lying around to make them.
6:30 Brian left to go
down to his dad’s to work on the potato boxes.
His parents live just ¼ mile from us so he’s down there frequently and
they have a wood shop. Wow later than I thought,
must have spent more time outside than I thought. Good thing Will took a late nap since supper
is later. He has corn, quinoa &
peaches. We usually eat after he goes
down for the night
6:50 Normally we’d be heading to bed about now but since he
woke up from his nap so late I let him stay up a bit longer.
7:30 Upstairs for
bedtime. Final diaper change of the day
and nursing.
(Got to this point typing Sunday night but Will wakes up
crying at 10:15 so I take it as a warning to go to bed. Nights when he wakes up at 10 or so usually
mean he’ll be up several times throughout the night instead of just once or
twice so I guess it won’t be posted with the rest of the Day in the life’s. I don’t have time during the week to do any
more writing since my only free time is after Will goes to bed and summer is a
busy time. We picked beans Sunday night,
snipped the ends and canned them Monday night, froze some corn Tuesday, cleaned
the house from the corn Wednesday, Thursday watched Big Brother (important I
know), and I did nothing Friday night while Brian baled hay. I’m finishing this Saturday morning during
Will’s morning nap so my memory is a little foggy with some of the smaller
details.)
7:45 Will was still
awake when I laid him down. I didn’t
give him the pacifier because I like to give him the chance of falling asleep
without it. It used to work more often
than not, now it’s almost never.
8:00 He’s still awake
and starting to fuss harder. My policy
is I let him whine a little bit but I don’t let him get pissed off without
going up to him. I give in and give him
his pacifier; he needs to go to sleep.
8:10 I haven’t heard a peep out of him since I came
downstairs so I figure it’s safe to go out and get some corn for supper. I go through the 1st corn patch
and try and find the biggest ones, I meant to only get 8 but lost count and got
9. I shuck them in the garden and
carried them to the porch to silk. I
have plenty of feline help.
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| We put food scraps out the back kitchen door so they have learned to hang out there for snacks. |
8:30 I just got the corn in the pot steaming and Brian comes
back with the 2 potato boxes. He goes
down to install them on the wall of root cellar. It’s just a room in our basement that I had
him insulate the walls and ceiling. I
have visions of having it temperature and humidity controlled for best
vegetable storage, right now it’s just a room without a door.
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| it's nice having a hubby who is so handy to whip these out in a couple hours. |
8:45 Done in the
basement so I come up to put supper on the table while Brian washes up. He said he needs a beer after doing the
boxes, I just have water, such is the life of nursing mama.
8:50 Finally sit down for supper, we normally eat between
7:30 and 8 so we running about an hour behind.
I think the meat would have been ready earlier too since it’s a little
crunchy in places. You win some, you
lose some.
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| I thought about doing potoatos too but the only ones we had are in the ground in the garden yet and it was late enough so no starch. |
9:10 Done eating so we put stuff away and go out to do
chores. I take care of the chickens and
Brian does pigs, cows, dogs & cats.
( I don’t remember how many eggs I got but it’s usually between 6-8, at
least half of which are pullet eggs) which isn’t that good for the number of
hens we have. We have 12 chickens, 6 are
about 6 months old and 6 are about 18 months old. We were getting 6 consistently from the older
hens all spring then in June they stopped laying so well. I’m not sure if it was the heat or the arrival
of the pullets or what but they totally started slacking. I can tell which are pullet eggs because they
are about ½ - ¾ of a normal egg. I’m
hoping in the fall I start getting more when it cools down and the hens and
pullets are fully acquainted with each other.
9:20 I clean eggs and
put them away while Brian finishes up with his chores and we sit down and watch
more Olympics.
10:00 I’m calling it a day and go to bed. I don’t believe last night’s sleeping through
the night is a new trend and Brian follows me up stairs. (for the record I was right, he woke up twice
early Sunday morning)
