The reason I've been having so much trouble doing regular posts lately is that I'm busy. At this moment you're thinking, okay so am I but I still get in at least a blog a week (or maybe not). I realized today that most of the time when I used to blog was during Karen's naptime. Not that Karen no longer takes a nap, but now I also have Rachel. She's a cute little bundle of screaming (mostly happy) and until recently was never sleeping at the same time as Karen. That makes it hard to blog since she's always crying or pulling on my leg and crying, or trying to eat the computer cords when I try to get online. This week has been better in one way, however. I finally got my girls to take naps at the same time!!! I think it's a miracle! Here's the catch: they can't be in the same room. I don't know what it is; they have no trouble sharing a room at night or any other time except for naptime. Putting them in the same room and telling them to take a nap is like dropping your pen and telling it not to fall. It just doesn't work in the known universe. So now the pack-n-play has become a permanent fixture in our bedroom (at least there's room for it in this apartment!) and they are taking good almost-2-hour naps. Now the only problem is that the computer (actually, the internet connection since the computer is a laptop) is in the bedroom with Rachel during naptime. So, I've won (at least temporarily) one battle, but the war to have a little of my own life continues. One of these days I'll even have enough time to myself with a computer to justify having an account on a social networking site... in my dreams....
Anyway, we've been doing pretty good here. The leaves are finally starting to change, we may have a frost tonight, and it's wonderful that I now have a justification for drinking hot chocolate! In other news, I stubbed my pinky toe on my left foot on Tuesday and it's pretty well jammed though it's not as painful and swollen as it was. Karen got a big blister running around the church last Thursday while I was helping set up for Enrichment (which was a great event...maybe I'll write about it sometime...). Anyway, her blister popped and scabbed over, she picked it a couple of times, and it was so gross I didn't want her to even try putting on shoes. As a result we've been kinda cooped up in our apartment and were about ready to kill each other this afternoon. This is why I have a brilliant and wonderful husband who came home and helped take care of the girls this evening, then kicked me out the door and told me to come back after bedtime! I didn't know what to do with myself!!! I went to the mall (without my money so I couldn't be really tempted) for over an hour without stopping at the kiddie slides, and walked in and looked at stuff in 4 consecutive stores. I can't ever do that with the girls; either they start screaming b/c we're not moving fast enough or they pull stuff off the shelves. It was nice (and wierd) to be able to go into any store I wanted to.
Last note befor I have to run: Rachel had her follow-up with the eye doctor on Tuesday morning. I spent an hour driving to south Charlotte for the appointment only to have him say "well, it looks like it might be a little better, but I'm not really sure what/if she needs anything yet. come back in January". It's nice to know that she's not blind and she might be a little better, but I feel like I wasted an entire morning for a doctor that doesn't really care about my baby! Grrr!
I was going to write more, but now the Office is on so I have to go. Hopefully I'll be back sooner than later, but I'm not giving up nap time for it so we'll see...
Highlights of our time in PTC
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