FIVE STRAIGHT HOURS OF SLEEP!!!!!! Yes, E slept for SIX straight hours last night!! The last time she slept more than four hours was the first night home from the hospital with 5 1/2 hours. Four-hour stretches basically only existed in December (???) and we've been back to 2-3 hour stretches. And, for the past week, it has been closer to the 2-hour mark than the 3-hour mark.(Kept this entry short & left out much of what I had to say as Diaryland "lost" my first copy of this entry and I don't have time to retype it all.)

to say we’re still alive. We’ve been pretty busy between a newborn & a steady flow of family so my online time has been quite limited. My mom came out the week after E was born, Jim’s parents the following week, my sister, BIL and mom (again!) last week.  My dad & step-mom come at the end of the week and then we’re done. It has been wonderful to have the family here but I’m ready for some alone time again.All is well and I’ll try to do a longer update this week. But now I need to get us ready for our breastfeeding support group.

I am SO ready to just do nothing this week!! Monday Jim had off, so we did some things around here and ran some errands. Tuesday I was at the volunteer office all day, then to Jim’s deployment ceremony, home for a couple hours (just long enough to work and eat a sandwich) and then to a club meeting getting home about 10. Today I had a doc appt., lots of work to do, had to run to the volunteer office to pick up some papers (so I could work from home), home for dinner, then off to a meeting for Jim’s unit where we got to hear all about notification if they die (cheery topic! luckily, I had heard it all before so I was able to “distance” myself mostly), back home to do some work and a little snuggling with Jim. Tomorrow & Friday I have training for volunteer work for a conference I’m doing later this month. Tomorrow night I have another club meeting and Jim is working late. Friday evening we have NOTHING planned. Jim wants to spend the evening watching the new football season, so I’ll probably spend the evening sewing. And hopefully coaxing this child out.

I am SO ready to just do nothing this week!! Monday Jim had off, so we did some things around here and ran some errands. Tuesday I was at the volunteer office all day, then to Jim’s deployment ceremony, home for a couple hours (just long enough to work and eat a sandwich) and then to a club meeting getting home about 10. Today I had a doc appt., lots of work to do, had to run to the volunteer office to pick up some papers (so I could work from home), home for dinner, then off to a meeting for Jim’s unit where we got to hear all about notification if they die (cheery topic! luckily, I had heard it all before so I was able to “distance” myself mostly), back home to do some work and a little snuggling with Jim. Tomorrow & Friday I have training for volunteer work for a conference I’m doing later this month. Tomorrow night I have another club meeting and Jim is working late. Friday evening we have NOTHING planned. Jim wants to spend the evening watching the new football season, so I’ll probably spend the evening sewing. And hopefully coaxing this child out.

I am SO ready to just do nothing this week!! Monday Jim had off, so we did some things around here and ran some errands. Tuesday I was at the volunteer office all day, then to Jim’s deployment ceremony, home for a couple hours (just long enough to work and eat a sandwich) and then to a club meeting getting home about 10. Today I had a doc appt., lots of work to do, had to run to the volunteer office to pick up some papers (so I could work from home), home for dinner, then off to a meeting for Jim’s unit where we got to hear all about notification if they die (cheery topic! luckily, I had heard it all before so I was able to “distance” myself mostly), back home to do some work and a little snuggling with Jim. Tomorrow & Friday I have training for volunteer work for a conference I’m doing later this month. Tomorrow night I have another club meeting and Jim is working late. Friday evening we have NOTHING planned. Jim wants to spend the evening watching the new football season, so I’ll probably spend the evening sewing. And hopefully coaxing this child out.