I’m still alive

Yes, I’m still here.  And things are fine, just busy.  The sleep issue has gone away and been replaced with…sleep. Lots of long, uninterrupted glorious sleep.  Sleep, sleep, sleep!  YAY!!!

Conor’s sleeping almost completely through the night; there was one “Mommy!” at 11:00 last night but a quick pat on the back and he was back down until 6 am at which point the family engaged in a snuggle-fest.

But oh, the joy of restorative sleep.  The sun shines, the birds sing, and my head is as clear as the cloudless sky.  Ahhhhhhhhh. 

We’ve also been doing a great deal of work around the house.  On Sunday, we (along with our enslaved house guests) spread nearly the entire truckload of mulch over the beds and the garden.  There are still a few more places that need a thicker mulch cover, but we smacked that mountain of mulch down to molehill with one energetic whomp.  Usually it takes Dave and me nearly 6 weeks to make that much of a dent in it. 

It also helped that Conor wanted to do his fair share, which after my return from Home Depot with herbs to plant and I spotted his red sweaty cherubic face carrying mulch in his toy wheelbarrow, I decided he had done well beyond his fair share.  Let’s just say that in addition to last night’s good sleep, yesterday’s nap was quite strong too.  (Videos will follow of Conor playing follow the leader with Dave and the wheelbarrows.  I warn you that when you watch it your heart will explode)

I hope to blog more again soon, but I can really only focus on the amount of work I have to do and that’s just generally not the most exciting topic of a blog.

I will share that we are not pregnant this month.  It’s not the happiest news, but we’ll keep moving on and hope for better news next month.  Meanwhile, I’ll sleep and work and blog witty entries in my head which will never see the light of day but which amuse me and delude me into thinking I'll have an audience again when I can get back to regular entries which shed some light as well as humor.

10:30:40 AM