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By Janice | April 21, 2008
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Never Underestimate The Power of Chocolate
Tonight Sierra is fast asleep in her bed, in her room. Yes HER BED! In HER ROOM! This is the first time in like, I dunno… a MONTH! She’s been having “sleep-overs” with me for one reason or another (AC is broken, need to sleep in the one bedroom with a window unit or daddy is making Brooke cry-it-out so Sierra has to sleep with mommy, etc..). And you know how I got her to stay in her bed? I resorted to good ol’ fashioned bribing! I promised her a box of chocolate if she stayed in her bed in her room ALL night!
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By Janice | August 20, 2008
Topics: Parenthood, sleep-deprivation | 2 Comments »
Thinking Outside Of The Box
Remember yesterday how I said I wouldn’t bore you about work? Well guess what? I’ve changed my mind. This is my blog and I can change my mind if I want to! Nyah, nyah, nyah….
I have two current “problems” at work that I’ve been racking my brain out over how to solve them. I shouldn’t really call them “problems”. They’re more like tasks that I need to do - dates that I need to track. If I don’t receive new info by the expiry date then I need to alert someone in the form of a letter to let them know that their info has expired (or in a perfect world, will be expiring) so can you please send me the new info, thank you very much…. Before I came back to work I had no sort of tracking mechanism for these dates, and as you can imagine tons of info had expired. Thankfully its summer and things are a bit slower for me at work (that and a lot of my previous duties have been re-assigned - that’s a whole ‘nother issue that won’t ever be blogged about ’cause I have a no complaining about work on my blog policy). Anyways, today I had a huge AHA! moment. The light bulb turned on in my brain and I figured out how to use the software I have at my disposal (Microsoft Office) to accomplish my work for me with minimal effort by me! Yay MS Office! I *could* always do things the old fashioned way - keeping the info in a spreadsheet and manually copying and pasting addresses etc into letters, but my goodness copying and pasting is so 2004! Yes, yes I know how to do a mail merge - so no more copying and pasting for me. Using a spreadsheet and feeding a mail merge from the spreadsheet is still not automatic enough for me. I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to get outlook to do the work by storing the data in there by creating a form, using tasks and running macros and voila! I’ve automated my work! Now, if only I could automate filing….
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By Janice | August 14, 2008
Topics: Office Politics | 2 Comments »
Not Much To Say
I’m logged into my blog, all set to write an awesome kick ass post, but suddenly I’m struck by writers block. I just don’t know what to write. Should I write about work? Nah - too boring. We all sit at cubicles all day, so why would I bore you with that stuff? Should I write about softball? In brief I played 6 games in 6 days. Some we won, some we lost. I now feel like I’m 80 yrs old. Should I write about the kiddos? Sierra’s better, Brooke is…..
SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!
Yes! yes! You read that right! Brooke is sleeping through the night! Yippeeee! So how did we do it? I must admit I can take absolutely no credit for it. Rob did it.
Thursday Night:
Rob put her in her crib (while I was playing softball) and walked out of the room leaving her there wailing. 9 min later she was asleep. She woke up twice that night, and I attended to her as usual.
Friday night:
Same thing - only he took the monitor and did the night time parenting. He let her cry for 5 min, then went in to her. She took one look at him and flopped down in her bed. He patted her back and tucked her back in. She was up twice that night.
Saturday night:
I nursed her at bed time, then put her in her bed awake. She protest cried, but settled quickly and fell asleep on her own. She woke up once. Rob let her cry and did her night time parenting.
Sunday Night:
Same as Saturday, only she slept through the night.
Monday night:
I had softball so Rob put her to bed. She woke up once in the night.
Tuesday Night:
I put her to bed, Rob did her night-time parenting. She woke up, but didn’t require anyone to help her fall asleep.
So there ya have it folks - 13 months of waking up 2, 3 or sometimes even 4 times a night to nurse, and now I don’t have to do it anymore! Yay! So what am I going to do with all my new found energy now that the kid is FINALLY sleeping? Blog? Clean? Workout? Run? I dunno yet - right now I’m just trying to recover form playing 6 ball games in 6 days…
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By Janice | August 13, 2008
Topics: Breastfeeding, Parenthood, sleep-deprivation | 7 Comments »
I Almost Lost My Blog
I upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and couldn’t log in afterwards. It kept asking me to login, but no matter which passowrd I used I couldn’t get in. I even did a password reset and I couldn’t get in. Finally I gave up. Tonight, I tried again and VOILA! I got in - I have absolutely no idea what happened. But now I can blog again - Aren’t you happy?
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By Janice | August 10, 2008
Topics: Site Updates | 6 Comments »
One Hundred and Three point Six Four Farenheit
Guess what that is? The temperature outside? Nope. The temperature inside? Nope (though we’re close - our A/C has been broken for 2, maybe 3 weeks). Give up? That was Sierra’s temperature today. She had one kick arse fever. And it generally hung around all day. No amount of Tylenol and Advil I gave her would lower it. We took two three cold showers/baths together which only lowered it slightly. I also gave her two popsicles, and took her out for a milkshake.
Sierra came home yesterday from daycare and promptly fell asleep on the couch before dinner. I woke her up to feed her popcorn for dinner - hey! At least she ate something… Anyways, she fell asleep again at 9:30 no problem. She woke up @ 1:45 with a fever (Brooke woke up at the same time to nurse). I let Brooke cry while I gave Sierra Avil and juice. Brooke nursed back to sleep and all was well. In the morning, Brooke woke us all up and Sierra lazed in bed for an hour before joining Brooke and I for breakfast. At this point I realized that I had to stay home for her. I called into work and explained that I needed to waste a vacation day on my sick child.
It wasn’t that bad… We dropped off Brooke, whose "class" was just getting ready to go to the Splash Pad (I would just love to watch 9 babies play at a splash pad with no big kids to bug them). She waved "bye bye" without crying and broke my heart. Sierra and I went home and began a fun day of "Two girls together" (Sierra is really into identifying someone’s gender and counting lately). We took a cool shower together, then cuddled up on the couch to watch Treehouse and eat popsicles (2 each!). I painted her toes and nails, then she fell asleep watching "Barney" (who can blame her - that show is boring as hell!). I logged into work, followed up on some emails, did some laundry, then Sierra woke up. Her fever was still high - I gave her more Advil and Tylenol, and we took another cool shower together. We cuddled up in my room (portable A/C unit is in there) and I read book after book after book to her for an hour. Afterwards she came downstairs and seemed to be feeling better, so we went out for milkshakes together, then walked to a nearby park. Thirty min into the park, Sierra started complaining of being cold so we came home. She fell asleep on the couch again while I ran a load of laundry to the basement.
Yanno, it was really, really nice to spend the day with her. Just Sierra and mommy. We haven’t had a day like that in a YEAR! I really enjoyed my day with her, and it saddens me that it took her being dreadfully sick to be able to spend a day like that with her. In a way I hope she’s still sick tomorrow - that way I can spend another kick butt awesome day with her! But it also reminds me that I should take vacation days to spend with each of my children alone. These kiddos - they grow up so fast!
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By Janice | August 6, 2008
Topics: Parenthood | 8 Comments »
Happy World Breastfeeding Week
Happy World Breastfeeding Week to all of my nursing blogger friends: Nicole (Much More Than A Mom), Chelle (Creative Thoughts by Chelle), Half Pint Pixie, Haley (Cheaty Monkey) Nadine (Hello World It’s me) and Beth (So the Fish Said)! Yanno - Nancy, the pregnant man’s wife deserves a special shout out for inducing lactation and breastfeeding their child - Happy WBW Nancy!
I’d also like to send a very special Happy WBW wish to my bf B who welcomed her first son into this world just last week - just in time for WBW! happy WBW B!
World Breastfeeding Week Is the first week of August (August 1-7). In conjunction with the Olympics this month, WBW 2008 calls for greater support for mothers in achieving the gold standard of infant feeding: breastfeeding exclusively for six months, and providing appropriate complementary foods with continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond. This week long celebration is coordinated by The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), a global network of individuals & organisations concerned with the protection, promotion & support of breastfeeding worldwide. This year’s theme is: Mother Support: going for the Gold. The support a new mother’s family, friends and community is key to developing a successful breastfeeding relationship with her baby. The support I got from my hubby, my friend Tracy, tghe hospital I gave birth at and the LLL in my town all contributed to me being able to breastfeed preemie Sierra for 13 mos. Brooke has been a champion nurser since irth, however the support I’ve received from my hubby and my family has also helped me to continue for so long (13 mos and still going strong!).
So go on now - go support a breastfeeding mother - congratulate her for the sacrifices she’s making for her child, help her out by watching the baby for 2 hours between feeds so she can catch some shut eye, cook her some dinner, fold a load of laundry for her, change the baby’s diaper so she can put her feet up for a moment, bring her a snack while she’s nursing, just do something to help her - Go for the GOLD!!!
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By Janice | August 6, 2008
Topics: Breastfeeding | 6 Comments »
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