Friday, September 29, 2006
This week was a good one, a sharp contrast to last week and all the sickness. Piper and I took some nice, long walks. We went to story time at the local library yesterday and met some new kids (and some new moms, too). I felt inspired to make some new baby food concoctions and Piper liked all of them (especially the tofu/peach/banana mush I gave her for breakfast this morning... her head nearly spun off her neck she was so psyched). I feel really accomplished and happy to see her enjoying healthy food that I made from scratch. Maybe I'll get a system down and be able to do away with the jar food altogether (except for when we take long car trips or go away for the weekend). I also took Piper to the playground yesterday and put her in a swing (we tried this several weeks ago and she was very non-responsive). She loved it this time! Nothing in the world makes me happier than watching her smile and giggle. I have the feeling we'll be spending a lot of time at the swing set from now on.
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Happy 34th birthday, T!
I love you!
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
This is definitely one of the crappier birthdays I have had in a long time. T had to return to work today, so my mother drove all the way up here to help me with Piper during the day and take me back to the doctor. Turns out that the codeine in the cough syrup I have been taking every four hours for the past two days is the cause of the super-intense nausea I have been experiencing. I have a prescription for a new cough syrup, but I think I am going to stop taking all drugs except antibiotics for the duration of this illness. I don't remember ever being this sick before... or this nauseous. T made me a scrumptious dinner tonight and a beautiful birthday cake, but I couldn't eat any of it. I feel like I am never going to get well.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
I woke up this morning feeling only marginally better and still not well enough to take on Piper all by myself. Poor T had to take another day off of work. He took me to the doctor, and it turns out that I have an ear infection and an upper respiratory infection. I now have some medicine which will hopefully help me.
An ear infection? I didn't think adults got those. True, my left ear feels clogged and I have a wicked headache, but an ear infection is the last thing I would have guessed.
Anyhow, I've got 14 hours to turn this thing around because T absolutely needs to go back to work tomorrow.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
I still have that crappy flu I posted about on Saturday. Except for a few quick trips up the stairs for a bit of food or water, I have been in bed for three days straight. T had to take the day off today because I am not in any condition to take care of Piper yet. I can't believe I'm STILL sick! I've got to kick this thing today, I have no choice.
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
The past several weeks have been wonderful. I lovelovelove being a stay-at-home mom. I still feel like pinching myself every once in a while when I realize that no, this isn't a vacation that will soon be coming to an end. Before I quit my job and I tried to picture what being home with a baby would be like, I would occasionally worry that the time would stretch out slowly and endlessly before me, that I'd feel bored. How wrong I was! The days are flying by, and Piper is keeping me so busy that I barely have time to eat... or change my clothes... or clean up the messes we make together. I feel like I have gotten to know my daughter so much better during these past several weeks. There are days when my patience wears a little thin... such as the afternoon last week when she decided to paint the dining room with broccoli puree... and now that she's able to crawl and pull herself up into a standing position, I am constantly on the move trying to keep her out of the places she shouldn't go, and that can be very tiring sometimes. But I wouldn't train those challenging moments for anything. I am teaching her and she is teaching me and it is incredible.
This weekend, T and I had big plans. Since our birthdays and wedding anniversary are coming up, we decided to take a short weekend trip without the baby to celebrate. Destination: Cooperstown, NY... home of the Baseball Hall of Fame and, more importantly, home of Brewery Ommegang. T loves their beer (he discovered it at Trader Joe's in CA) and has been wanting to visit the brewery ever since we moved to New York. My mother kindly agreed to babysit Piper for us, so I dropped her off yesterday and arrived back in Albany just as T was getting home from work. We had a nice meal at one of our favorite restaurants, and we were planning to go out on the town afterwards, but I started feeling icky so we came straight home instead and hit the sack early (the plan was to leave for Cooperstown early today). I awoke at 6:30 this morning with the worst case of the flu I have had in a long time and have felt like absolute crap all day. The Cooperstown trip has been postponed. We were going to drive the two hours back down to my mother's to retrieve Piper this afternoon, but she nicely offered to babysit tonight as originally planned so I could have a chance to recuperate a little. I have been lying in bed for most of the day, alternately freezing and sweating my ass off, missing my little baby like hell but also feeling glad that I don't have to care for her in my sorry state. I caught this damn flu from her, only she didn't have it nearly as bad as I now do... and the last thing I want to do is re-infect her just as she is beginning to feel better. So, I'll just have to continue missing her for a few more hours and hopefully in the meantime I can kick this thing.
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