Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Head down.
I started writing a post about the fact that my friends don't have enough time to hang out all the time. Sometimes I get bored and lonely and all I feel like is to go have a coffee with someone and chat for hours. Don't we all?
As I was throwing myself a pity party and wondering where my proverbial "village" was, I came to the conclusion that if I get bored when my friends are too busy to catch up, then I need to come up with something fun and interesting to do during those down times. This led me to two options:
Option 1) Have another baby,
Option 2) Get more work.
Since we have no announcements to make on the baby front at this stage, I guess it leaves me with option 2. Get more work.
It's been a bit quiet lately which means that not only have I lost my source of pocket money, I have also focused solely on Hugo in the last few weeks. Nothing else. I love Hugo and I love taking care of him but it isn't always very satisfying on an intellectual level.
With the objective of moving things along, I have been working on a website to showcase the writing I have been doing over the last couple of years. It needs a bit more work before I can promote it and then, well, I need to figure out how to promote it. I have some ideas. As an aside, it's not that easy making a writing website visually interesting.
In any case, I am not looking for work as a reliable source of income at this stage since I'll still be looking after Hugo full-time for the foreseeable future but more as a stimulating distraction, to feel all those little sleepy brain cells buzzing around my head. Also I want my pocket money back!
And if that doesn't work, we still have option 1... (joking. Sort of.)
OK so, who wants to go have a coffee?
As I was throwing myself a pity party and wondering where my proverbial "village" was, I came to the conclusion that if I get bored when my friends are too busy to catch up, then I need to come up with something fun and interesting to do during those down times. This led me to two options:
Option 1) Have another baby,
Option 2) Get more work.
Since we have no announcements to make on the baby front at this stage, I guess it leaves me with option 2. Get more work.
It's been a bit quiet lately which means that not only have I lost my source of pocket money, I have also focused solely on Hugo in the last few weeks. Nothing else. I love Hugo and I love taking care of him but it isn't always very satisfying on an intellectual level.
With the objective of moving things along, I have been working on a website to showcase the writing I have been doing over the last couple of years. It needs a bit more work before I can promote it and then, well, I need to figure out how to promote it. I have some ideas. As an aside, it's not that easy making a writing website visually interesting.
In any case, I am not looking for work as a reliable source of income at this stage since I'll still be looking after Hugo full-time for the foreseeable future but more as a stimulating distraction, to feel all those little sleepy brain cells buzzing around my head. Also I want my pocket money back!
And if that doesn't work, we still have option 1... (joking. Sort of.)
OK so, who wants to go have a coffee?
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Has anyone seen my immune system?
Over the last three weeks, and between the three of us, we have been sick eight times. Yes, that's right, EIGHT! That is a lot considering I can't remember the last times any of us were sick before this spout of illnesses (that's not completely true, I got sick in Nice but I was tired, jet-lagged and it was winter- apart from that, I honestly can't remember).
Here is how it went:
This is where we are up to so far but who knows what's next...
It's exhausting and frustrating and to make things worse, Hugo and I can't really take anything to feel better quicker. Hugo because he is too young and me because I am still breastfeeding which eliminates more or less everything. I can spray my nose with saline water, woohoo!
The last few weeks must have been tough on Hugo too. The poor thing had never even been sick until three weeks ago. Somehow, while it is obvious he is bothered by everything that has hit him, he is still more or less his cheery old self. Smily, energetic, with maybe a little extra whininess thrown in.
Chris and my physical exhaustion has somewhat transferred into our parenting style and we have been slower to react when Hugo wakes up crying or won't fall asleep. I guess patience is proportional to energy levels. We have both been spending much less time getting Hugo to sleep and have been letting him sort himself out. Sometimes, it means a lot of crying and sometimes, it's pretty quick. Overall, it seems to be getting easier.
Strangely enough, we have had some of our best nights in a long time too. Last night, I heard him from afar in the middle of night when he woke up. He cried for a little while but I just didn't have the strength to get up and neither did Chris. Fairly quickly, the night was silent again and all was well until morning.
Maybe that is the silver lining we have been waiting for...
Here is how it went:
- Hugo caught a gastro bug,
- Chris caught Hugo's gastro,
- I got a sore throat from being run down,
- Hugo got conjunctivitis (probably from rubbing his eyes with vomit on his hands),
- Hugo developed a fever and a cough,
- Chris got the cough and the fever,
- Hugo caught a cold, blocked nose and chesty cough,
- I caught Hugo's cold with the lot.
This is where we are up to so far but who knows what's next...
It's exhausting and frustrating and to make things worse, Hugo and I can't really take anything to feel better quicker. Hugo because he is too young and me because I am still breastfeeding which eliminates more or less everything. I can spray my nose with saline water, woohoo!
The last few weeks must have been tough on Hugo too. The poor thing had never even been sick until three weeks ago. Somehow, while it is obvious he is bothered by everything that has hit him, he is still more or less his cheery old self. Smily, energetic, with maybe a little extra whininess thrown in.
Chris and my physical exhaustion has somewhat transferred into our parenting style and we have been slower to react when Hugo wakes up crying or won't fall asleep. I guess patience is proportional to energy levels. We have both been spending much less time getting Hugo to sleep and have been letting him sort himself out. Sometimes, it means a lot of crying and sometimes, it's pretty quick. Overall, it seems to be getting easier.
Strangely enough, we have had some of our best nights in a long time too. Last night, I heard him from afar in the middle of night when he woke up. He cried for a little while but I just didn't have the strength to get up and neither did Chris. Fairly quickly, the night was silent again and all was well until morning.
Maybe that is the silver lining we have been waiting for...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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