chris came to visit earlier this month
While I was pregnant I did not give up my diet coke habit, but i did cut back to just the days i was interning. Since I have been nursing, I have cut out all out all caffeine, including my beloved iced tea. I just did not want to chance interference with sleep. Since it turned cold, I have been craving a nice coffee drink. I have resisted until lately when I was going to give into decaf. I then realized that I take milk in my coffee and the known effects of dairy were definitely not worth it. This morning when i was out i realized – soy milk! Starbucks has soy milk! So i went by and was so concentrated on getting it with soy milk that i forgot to order decaf with my latte. I used to say that caffeine did not effect me, but it turns out after 3 months off, two espresso shots gave me a high caffeine high. It was crazy. I got home and did a million things with so much energy. I couldn’t sit still during lunch. It was amusing. It also started a conversation on the effects of caffeine in breastmilk. After some internet research, we found out that my latte had 150 mg. According to babycenter.com, you really need 400 mg to affect the baby, so hopefully we’ll still get our sleep, but if not, ben is now assured that aiden’s heart isn’t going to race.
So it as been my policy every other year since high school to stay in my warm sane house on the day after thanksgiving. i never thought it was worth braving the crowds to shopping. This was before I got addicted to the craft store and got their circular coupon for 20% off of everything that was already on sale! It was crazy! So i had to go. And so i went. at a reason hour. 10 am found me in the busy, but not crazy store. I got everything on my list. There was a whole bunch of things i saved 70% on! It was awesome.
happy belated thanksgiving. we were at ben’s parents with 30 family members. i spent much of yesterday working on a video for my family. it turns out that our digital video camera writes in a format not compatible with imovie. and blah blah blah i figured out that i need to borrow ben’s parent’s camera which has a hook up and then editing with be a lot easier. but it got a short video done for my fam and that made my day. My bread and pies, as always, were a big hit. Next year dinner has to be earlier than 6:30. Everyone else eats thanksgiving dinner at 5 (or earlier). 6:30 is just too late with Aiden b/c people like to linger over dinner and then after before pie, but we had to speed it up b/c aiden was getting tired (it was past bedtime). other than that it was a good day. we were pretty militant about hand washing, so i hope that we did not pick up a sickness. i’ll admit a million people handling him makes me uncomfortable. but he was a champ all day. we got him down for some naps so he held up well over the 9 hours, but i think by the end, in addition to being tired, he was tired of being handled. I ended up just putting him in his car seat so he could eat his fist and he was much happier during pie.
I am thankful for so many things. I am very very lucky. This is underscored this year by a friend’s loss of her mother to cancer and other’s sister’s cancer that it not looking well despite being told she would be cured. So I am thankful for my families and their relative health. I am very thankful for my husband and our kid and the ease of getting pregnant, the pregnancy, and birth.
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