Sweet Sleep

Last night I worked on the computer for 5+ hours trying to get caught up on work so I don't have to worry about unfinished business here at home while we're in Charlotte for the week.

While I was working, Tony and Emma were supposed to be on the couch watching Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

This is what I found when I was done working.

So sweet.

Baby Fever!!!

I would like to know how I'm supposed to keep the baby fever at bay when people close to me keep popping out newborns that look like this???

This is baby Joshua Arnold. He's my brother-in-law's new baby. Emma and I drove to Darlington to meet him and take his newborn pictures a couple of weeks ago and I was dyyying to bring him home with me!!

And then today, my cousin Colton brought his new baby, Carey, to my house for me to take his newborn pictures. I mean, COME ON!!! I am sure I ovulated about 20 times today while taking these pictures.

It's really a good thing I am not a "newborn photographer" because all I want to do when these babies are in my presence is kiss them and love them and talk in a squeaky voice to them. Parents who aren't related to me would probably be very disturbed and run screaming from my house.

So Disappointed in ME!!!

Right now I am kicking myself and cursing myself (in my head) for being such a slacker on my blog last year. I love writing, I obviously love taking pictures of my family and I love journaling my thoughts and the accomplishments and daily happenings of my life here on my blog. So WHY did I skip every important happening in our lives last year?

why????

I am about to print my blog for 2009-2010 into a book so I have it for our memories and so that this actually serves as a source of history for our family and while sorting through my archives on here and deleting things that weren't relevant or worthy of printing into our book I realized just how little I really blogged last year and just how rarely I blogged anything! I didn't even blog Emma's first day of Kindergarten!!! What in the WORLD???? So, this next week I am going to spend writing all the blogs that I did not write last year.

Fear not.

They will not be visible in your current readers because I'm going to back date them. Hopefully by punishing myself like this (it's not really punishment, I just refuse to print a book without all these amazing events that I IGNORED documented in it!) I will not fall off the wagon as my life gets busier this year (during my wedding season) and quit blogging again.

Close friends of mine, please give me a swift kick in the arse if I become lame blogger of the year again.

K?

Thanks.

An Aversion to 7-9

I was telling Tony earlier that my sleeping habits are just so strange.

Just to clarify, sleeping IS one of my very favorite things. However, I fight it at night. I love my nights. With being a "single mom" most of the time, my only alone time is after the kids are in bed. And really, that's a very loose statement, because Emma is also a night owl and she loves to hang out with me at night. So, sometimes I only get an hour after Emma finally falls asleep to have some quiet time. And quiet time is something I treasure because I had SO much of it growing up. Being an only child and most of the time it was just my mom and I, our house was a very quiet place. We could nap when we wanted... whatever we wanted... because it was always very peaceful. It was great. I probably thought it was boring at the time, but now as an adult with two very LOUD children, I think... wow, those quiet days when I could just lay on my bed and read and watch a movie or nap whenever I wanted and not have any disruptive noises or people... needing (bothering) you... those were good days. ;)

So, at night, I fight sleep by knitting while watching tv or a movie in bed and then once I cut the light off, I turn the iPad on and read until my little eyes just cannot hold themselves open any longer. I love night time. I wish nights were much longer than they are. But oh well, I don't think that's anything that's ever going to change.

So, the past two mornings, I've woke up at 5am. Yesterday it was because Noah woke up sick, which makes me go from passed out to wide awake instantly (it's a mom thing, right?). And yesterday, I went back to sleep when he fell back asleep and slept for a few hours. It was great.

And again, today I woke up at 5 am for no reason and just couldn't go back asleep and here I sit... still awake. However, right now I would love a nap, but I can't because I have to go to an appointment I have at 11 am.

Most days, though, I go back to sleep after Emma goes to school just because I cannot stand to be awake between 7 and 9 am. Crazy, right? I told Tony I'm pretty sure it's just pure rebellion on the part of my brain from all those years of HAVING to wake up during those hours and hating every second of it. So now, I have to either wake up before 7 or well after 9 to be happy and want to stay awake.

I'm weird? Probably.

And a rebel.

today...

* i added an about me section to my photography website. i don't know why i waited this long to do that. i've been meaning to do it forever. i hope it doesn't sound too lame. i'm not great at describing myself.

* i am super stressed about a big change that is potentially happening to our family in the next two weeks. i'm terrified and i just want some resolution. i'm not good at accepting the unknown or change. change is not a friend of mine. never has been.

* i am also not great at waiting. i'm waiting and waiting for some yarn i ordered to arrive. it's needed to complete the valentine's day gift i'm knitting my mom and i can't finish it until it's here. that. sucks.

* i am so thankful to my mom for taking emma to school each day this week. her doing that for me keeps me from having to wake a sleeping grouch (aka noah), thereby giving me a much, much more peaceful morning. thanks mama. love you.

* i'm hoping that when i get on the elliptical in just a few minutes that my lungs respond appropriately. unfortunately, they're quite weakened from the sickness that we've had around here and my first two attempts at working out this week were not very successful.

* one bright spot right now? i'm making some super duper cute napkin rings to go on the anthropologie napkins i bought in new york. i have one done and one more half way done. when they are a complete set of four, i shall share. :)

*that's it... hope you guys are having a great day...

Downsizing

I decided earlier that I have/had way too many blogs in service. I think that's the source of me not blogging so much, because when I look at my dashboard and there are like 10 blogs there staring at me wondering why I haven't posted on them.... it's intimidating and I just click away as quickly as possible. LOL ;)

So, I closed FOUR blogs today and imported the contents of each of them onto THIS blog, so if you see random posts on here, that's why. I think this blog gained twenty-something posts today due to me closing the others.

And it's refreshing now that when I look at my dashboard all I see are my personal blog, my photography blog and the Mission 24 photography challenge blog that I'm a member of.

I feel like a new woman! :)