This was an unusual week of sickness, though this time it was the baby and not me. Spent most of the week holding a sick (as of tomorrow!) one-year-old, and it looks like we may have another night of interrupted sleep as he tries to breathe through his congestion. There's nothing like a sick baby to make you put aside everything that is not absolutely vital to health and living. Having other children does make that tricky since I can't really focus all my time and attention on holding the sick one, but they were mostly patient with me/him.
In other news... in no particular order:
I came up with this genius plan to only check blogs twice a week. My thought was that if I only had two "sessions" a week I would see how much time I was really spending reading and writing blogs. But then I found myself planted in a chair for days and so I read here and there. And I posted here and there. And it's not nearly as fun to comment on someone else's daily happenings a week late. I don't have the luxury of big blocks of time to do any one thing...if I quit doing everything that happened in 3-minute increments the only thing left would be sleep (and not even that some nights). So I guess I need to come up with a better plan for downsizing time spent on the computer. Any ideas?
We spent the weekend at my inlaw's house (which is a little over an hour away) and enjoyed grandparent time, good meals, and some R&R. I worked on stamping projects and Christmas cards for hours- a real treat. I didn't cook at all while we were there and I slept in with Baby T while the grandparents watched the older two kids and WH went on an early-morning deer hunt. (No deer were even seen.)
We switched to an all-cash budgeting plan. I made these to celebrate. Although I think I may make these as a more permanent solution. Both make it seem really fun to have cash in my bag! Even carrying around an empty wallet that looks this good is better than carrying around... hmmm. Well, we're doing the cash thing and we have these cute money holders, so that's that.
Reading Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. I hadn't rushed to read it because (not to sound cocky) but I knew I agreed with the premise and we have already made a lot of food changes around here. However, it's fascinating. I read half of it last night and if the baby keeps me up tonight, I may finish it by morning. I really needed another book to get me fired up about food. You might not want to talk to me for a few days unless you want to hear all kinds of mindless food history facts. It would be more fun for you to just read the book yourself.
I'm off to bed. Hope you had a great weekend! I'll leave you with these pictures of the birthday boy. I would say that I can't believe he's already one, but it's been a good, full year and we've loved having him in our family.
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how can it have been a whole year?!?!?!?
i need to clean up that blog page since you linked to it. that is the one bad thing about freshening up my blog look, all those older pages don't fit in as well!
On the blog thing...I only have six or so that I care about checking daily and since everyone doesn't even post everyday it doesn't take that much time. I feel like it's my communication time with the world/other moms so I don't feel guilty about a few min over coffee plus I usually finish feeling like I have a better perspective on life :o)
On the cash thing...Matty and I always feel like we are more careful with the money when it's cash, so much more "real" then a plastic card :o)
On the up-all-night thing I'm with you sister! The last two nights have been one of the five of us up every few minutes sort of nights so although I've been in bed part of the night (we've been taking turns getting up) still no actual blocks of sleep....plus at 8 months now I'm part of the problem :o)
The cash thing is good...but I never have it. Plus, i like a safety net. Plus #2, I like cashback bonuses with my credit card. But I do ask myself this question: Do you NEED this? If not, how important is it? That at least puts me on the speedhumps before the purchase. The only "tip" I have is this: Stick to the list. But you're already good at that!
I must say your babies keep getting cuter and cuter. I can almost feel his cuddliness by looking at his picture. Not nearly the same as actually cuddling him!
Your cash container is cute.
As far as blogs, I've gotten so far behind....and realized that my life hasn't been unduly impacted by the loss. So, I'm thinking of "decluttering" my blog roll and picking one or two in each "category" (spiritual, decorating, motivating, cooking, etc).
Of course, Blogs of My Children can get as big as it wants :)
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