Home Poem

This is a gmail chat conversation from this week during finals.

me: I'm back in the library

 

 

9 minutes

 

10:11 PM Rachel: home

poem

me: Let me finish this test

I will have a lot of closure if I can have this done by the time I get home

10:12 PM Rachel: how long will that take?

10:16 PM me: Maybe until midnight

 

 

12 minutes

 

10:29 PM Rachel: lvo

10:30 PM home poem

poem home

i need you

to no longer roam

me: lol

all right love, you need to get back to your papers

10:31 PM you're starting to lose it

but I think you're cute

Rachel: i think

I'm going to call a gnome

to get you back hom

under our dome

10:32 PM of our home

come now

holy cow

our baby is sad

because i won't nurse him back to sleep

and am just watching him

drif

t

its been a while since I've just watched him

his eyes

10:33 PM close

and then open

perhaps only one

should i nurse hime?

oh the answers

you could give if your

heart told you home

but instead tells you

10:34 PM to be a drone

in front of a computer

alone

me: Okay, I'm going to save this and put it on our blog

Rachel: oh how our child will bemoan

10:35 PM such a casual tone

when you should be home

Cousins for Christian

So our little fellow is going to have five cousins his same age between the two clans. The two most recent were just born:

Alex:


Chloe (name of my grandmother):



Aren't they adorable? I only have one cousin my same age, but Christian gets five!
He's such a lucky duck.

Us

More bedtime stories?

When I was a teenager my brother who was away at BYU Idaho sent me the book/short story The Wise Woman by George MacDonald. I was flattered at thinking my brother thought I was a wise woman, but because it had a weird cover I didn't read it for a couple years. To my chagrin, when I did read it I found that it wasn't so much a story of a wise woman, as much as two spoiled girls. I think my brother was trying to drop a hint. (MacDonald was one of C.S. Lewis' inspirations and reading MacDonald I definitely can see the similarities between the two. So if you liked Narnia, you'll probably like this.) Anyway I just read it again and perhaps because I'm a parent I noticed what great parenting techniques it had.




Another great one is The Very Persistant Gappers of Frip.
This is actually quite a good book for children or adults (we read it in one of my sociology classes).

Anyway, Happy Easter!

So Stephen and I are trying to figure out the best way for Christian (and us) to sleep. Current methods consist of one of these in our bed:

but Christian usually falls asleep nursing in my arms. Yet, the last couple nights I've been tempted to use the crib (perhaps upstairs so the landlords can take care of Kumquat, ha!) because he is waking up EVERY 10 MINUTES and nursing. However, I just read this wikipedia article about co-sleeping and figure I can manage until Christian gets back on his beautiful sleep schedule he once had at night.

sigh, I guess we'll see.

As long as we're on the topic of the things parents sometimes do, but are considered crazy for doing it, I'll mention our attempts of cloth diapering.

It hasn't been bad. We've been using Chinese prefolds with simple plastic covers, except for the two cute covers from our friend Amy. Other than a stinky leak on a dear friend earlier this week, and forgetting to put the plastic over the prefold when we were going out to eat with Stephen's grandparents (everyone wanted to hold him and he was soaking wet) it has been great! We still use disposables (thanks to the generosity of a certain Brian and Erin) when we're going to church, campus, or are just too tired. Yesterday we bought our first pack of disposable diapers ever and hope it will last us for the next four months. We're just waiting for a deal on this site to order the bigger size for Kumquat. In total for cloth diapers we've probably spent $65 for the prefolds, $12 for the plastic covers and snappis. I'm not sure what the energy bill would add up to be, but we try to hang the diapers when we're not in a hurry to help reduce that cost. My mama gave us a great diaper pail to make the whole process less stinky and more sanitary which I definitely recommend if you're going to do it.)



p.s. This is deserving of its own post, but Christian has his first Cranney cousin! We made a visit yesterday to see this handsome little fellow, and ohweee, I think he's a keeper. I'm afraid our camera was out of batteries, but hopefully we can catch a couple photos in the next few weeks.