Baby's 1st Nightmare & Low Milk Production Days

Last night the baby went to bed at 8pm, as usual, and I hung out in the living room for some computer time.  About 9:30pm, baby yells out somewhere between the "I'm awake & lonely but will fall right back asleep" and, closer to but not quite, the "I just jammed my leg through the rungs of the crib & got stuck HELP!" screams.  She was freaked out about something - definitely not stuck or hurt.  It took about 20 minutes to calm down her shivers & heavy breathing; but then she was right as rain & went back to sleep for the next 10 hours with no further incident.

I am rather sad about the fact that my milk production has been atrociously low as of late.  I'm only getting about 2oz in a pump session!  What happened to the 4oz to which I'd grown so accustomed & reliant upon?!  The moose needs milk & these bad girls are not being very helpful.  Woe are my low production blues.

Muppets & Mothers in Law

My mother in law is awesome  :)  She's always around when I need her, even when others weren't; she's always good for a laugh and/or hug; she has ALWAYS treated me like part of the family; she's creative & crazy but level-headed; she is our rock.  Plus, she's babysitting tonight so we can have date night - we're going to see the new Muppets movie!  w00t!!!

Remember this - letter to teenagers

I suspect this will ring even more true in about 12 years, 4 months.  I can't... wait?  LOL

 You're Getting Socks for Christmas

Back to School

Back to School was a fairly entertaining movie; however, this post is actually about ME going back to school.  I have officially registered for my first college class!  Trying to keep things simple, I will be taking ONE class and it's a math class at that  :(  :)  ???  We'll see how it goes...

I haven't gone to school in over 10 years, so this will be interesting.  Luckily, I was able to find a Saturday once weekly class so it won't mess with my work schedule & doesn't eat into my evening baby time.  Plus, the class is in Eagle River, which means I don't have to buy a parking permit!  w00t!  And it means that I can take the hubby & baby with me and drop them off at the in-laws for some quality baby+grandparent time :)

A little nervous, but mostly excited.  Once Christmas is done, I can't wait for January!

Be awesome & make a difference

You only need to affect ONE single person.

http://www.daysforgirls.org/

When it snows, it snows.

Alaska's newest Thanksgiving tradition - SNOW!  And LOADS of it!  w00t!  I'm not even a true a snow bunny, but boy do I love the snow  :)  This morning's drive into work was SNOW-tastic!  I drive a little car, but it ploughs through road snow like a champ.  Work today is pretty... lax.  We're running a skeleton crew, having leftovers for lunch, AND I get to leave early.  Awesome.

I drove by Best Buy last night about 10pm & the parking lot was packed.  There was a line of crazies along the outside of the mall waiting for the doors to open for midnight madness.  I hope everyone braving the weather last night got whatever it was they were looking for because it pretty snowy & cold out. 

Happy black Friday!  I'll be braving the interweb for shopping under the warmth of our kotatsu  :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a lovely dinner at the in-laws.  The baby was so sweet & very interested in adult conversation - she wanted to know what was going on!  The puppies were well-behaved, mostly because they were hoping for scraps ;)