Sleepy, Sleepy Baby

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Side note – I broke my promise already, I didn’t post last Wednesday or Friday. I have several excellent excuses, like Sharathon, being super busy, and my mom being in town, but I still didn’t post. Maybe this week will be better? On to the main attraction:

Sleep is a hard thing for a Bayer… at least for our littlest Bayer. She’s a sleepy, sleepy little girl, but she just won’t take a nap. She sleeps pretty well at night, but to take a nap is like torture to her. She’ll fall asleep for 10 minutes while you hold her, but go to put her in her bed and the eye lids fly open as though to say…

A Blog About Blogging?

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Recently, I became aware that people blog full-time (or even part-time)… meaning, they make money to share their thoughts with the world. I mean, I guess I knew this existed, but it never occurred to me that these could be normal people, like my Sister-in-law and Brother-in-law (who have a DIY blog that could potentially make them some money).

Working from home on 2 part time jobs, this is especially intriguing because I would love to stay home with my little lady, but one income is simply not enough…

Two Things

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Or maybe three. That’s how many I got done today. And I have decided I am going to be ok with that. I recently read an article that said that people can really only remember 3-4 things in their short term memory for about 20 seconds. Trying to do more will make you forget them all. So, I have decided that rather than trying to get my whole to do list done (which simply cannot happen with a 1 month old), I am going to focus on 3 (maybe 4) things to accomplish every day. If I do, I can confidently say it was a good day.

Today, those things were calling insurance about coverage on preventing any more children (for the time being), making an appointment to use my massage gift card that my awesome husband got me for valentines day, and reconciling my receipts with Mint.com…

This Too Shall Pass

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I am oscillating between ecstatic and mournful over this fact. Ecstatic because I can’t wait for this little one to finally, consistently sleep “through the night” (whatever that means). Ecstatic because she is starting to smile…on very rare occasions and usually for daddy. She’s also starting to coo. Ecstatic because that means she might start laughing soon…or holding her head up all the time. Enjoying tummy time (rather than screaming with frustration), and all those other beautiful milestones.

I swear, sometimes when she’s asleep I can see what she will look like at age 6…

Things I Thought I Knew

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People like to give you advice when you’re pregnant. There are a lot of things people warn you about… and you think you know, but that doesn’t mean that you KNOW them. There’s a difference between acknowledging a fact and experiential knowledge. Here are a few of them:

Sleep — They tell you that you will lose sleep, but until you have gone several weeks with only 3 consecutive hours of sleep, you can’t really understand what this means…