Chryp dead, looking for new lightweight platform

So found out today that chryp, my blogging platform, is dead.  Actually been dead for a while.  So I will be searching for a lightweight platform in the meantime.  Something that I can easily edit it necessary and create css stylesheets for.  Something I can blog on with little effort and post random Samantha shots.  The key words here are “easy,” “lightweight” and “adaptable.”  Does such a thing exist?  We shall soon see.  If you have any suggestions, drop me a line.  I hope to have the new site ready by the end of this year.  Thanks!

Welcome insomnia, pumping woes, and recipe experiments

total pumping: 11.5oz

Here I sit pumping away for Samantha after 10pm.  I have to wake up at 4am to get ready for work.  Ah, well, the sacrifices we make for the ones we love (and the bills we pay, ha!).

Lately my production has taken a dip.  I think it was because I forgot to take my fenugreek for a few days.  So I’m on the process of taking it again to build up the supply, but it may take a couple days.  I’m hoping to have enough for her to have at the daycare on monday.

Which reminds…she’s starting daycare at Kindercare right by work on Monday.  I’m excited, because Dan has been having troubles taking care of her, and I think the reduced stress will help iron things out.  We still don’t know what is exactly going on, but suspect Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis.  Seems like every time he goes into his “episodes” he is lower on potassium.  Sometimes it seems random, thus making it hard to care for a 4-month old.  But the jury is still out on the diagnosis.

Tonight I’m soaking some white beans I found in the cupboard and trying my hand making White Chili tomorrow in the crockpot.  It will make it a lot easier on us if we utilize this appliance more often.  Any suggestions?

Time to catch some sleep.

This is hard…

It is hard for me to focus by the end of the day and write.  It is not so much that I don’t have anything to write, just that the days have been getting so busy that my brain is a jumbled mess by the time I get a chance to write.  So many topics I could write about, but I have to also find time to research them all, too.

Samantha’s sleeping (finally) now.  We are going to try to transition her into the crib in the nursery rather than the bassinet in our bedroom.  It may make the mornings easier when I have to wake up at 4am to get ready for work and such.  There is so much stuff that needs to get done around here…

I’ve relocated my pile of filing to a moving box into the basement.  Yes, I am that far behind the filing.  At this point, I want to keep up the incoming mail and bills before I get back into filing all the back-log.  May not get to it until next month, sorry.

Also been working on a bedtime routine for Samantha and me.  But with variable work schedules and visits to grandparents, the variable the routine gets.  At the very least, I change her into a sleeper, and brush my teeth before going to bed.

In another 5 days, she’ll be 3 months old! Seems like the time has flown by.  We are now seriously thinking of looking into a daycare while I go to work, but I think in order for that to work, my work schedule would have to be the same every week.  Other ideas we’ve been bouncing around is moving to an apartment complex in the North, closer to the nursing home, so as to save on gas and other monies.  Hope to have concrete decisions made by the end of this year.

Appointments Update

Yesterday Samantha and I went to see our doctors.

Samantha went in for her well-baby check-up.  She’s up to 20 inches long and 9 pounds, 12 ounces.  That makes me one happy momma.  The doctor checked out her umbilical hernia and crocked toe.  Nothing he can do about them now, but it is good to keep taps on them (they don’t harm her at all).  Then came the shots.  Sad panda, she did not like those.  She was cranky until about 6pm last night, and had to take two doses of infant acetaminophen 4 hours apart.

I went in for a blood pressure check.  I was 122/93, borderline pre-hypertension.  So I’m still on meds for at least 4 weeks, and have to track my blood pressure daily.  Other than that, I seem to be fine.

So the afternoon was shot what with Samantha wanting to be comforted all the time from the shots.  I called in to work because I didn’t think Dan and his sister could handle her crankiness.  But by the time we went bowling, she was sleeping (thank goodness!).  It was a rough night bowling, though as one of Dan’s friend’s sister died.  Sounds like a diabetic coma that came on while she was bending down, so it blocked her airway and they didn’t get to her on time.  A few of her friends were over at the bowling alley, but Dan ended up being the only one bowling as my allergies are acting up.  I didn’t know her well at all, but I feel their pain.  It is always hard to lose those you hold dear.  On the bright side, Dan got some bowling practice in and I got to show off Samantha some more. 

All in all, it was a long day and night yesterday.  Today I don’t have anything scheduled until 4:30 when I go into work.  I’m hoping I have the weekend off so that if my grandparents show up, I’ll be available to spend some time with them.  We shall soon see tonight.

crazy morning, no time, and mortgage refi.

Daily pumping total: 11.5 oz

Crazy morning.  First, within minutes of me heading out the door, Samantha wanted to be fed.  Needless to say, I was a few minutes late to work.  No problem, right? ha!  One of the aides was missing in action at 9am, meaning the prep cook to help them out, leaving me cooking solo.  On top of that, my pump’s battery pack was dead.  Manager didn’t get in until 10am; by then I needed to pump badly.  I fell behind on the workload in the afternoon, mostly due to no one helping serve, and srubbing meatloaf pans.  At any rate, I got out of work by 3pm

Went over to Dan’s sister’s house to pick up more baby clothes.  I think I can safely say that we are set until she is at least 6 months, maybe older.  Also, we do NOT need more bibs, socks, or hats…they are coming out of our ears now.  But cute dresses; well that is another story :)

Sent out an old textbook we sold on half.com.  Yippee!

Was going to the bank to deposit my check, but they closed early.  So now that’s going to have to wait until Monday.

Once I got home, Dan was sweet enough to give me a foot massage while Samantha napped.  We were going to do more, but she woke up.  Someday, right?

Dan made dinner: Oven-Broiled corn on the cob and rice pilaf.  Yum! He also made some herbal iced tea.

“Grandpa” came over later this evening to finish putting trim up in the kitchen.  We had a lovely chat on mortgage refinancing as one of his neighbors came over to their house earlier today to talk to them about it.

Plans for tomorrow including taking Samantha to “Grandma’s” house, working 6am to 2:30pm, and general bumming afterwards.  With any luck, I can pay the bills Monday morning.

Whew!  The day flew by.  BTW: new feature (I guess you could call it that).  On each post, I’ll have my total pumping for the day.  This is more for me to give me a boost on pumping at work.  It is a pain in the butt to pump, cutting into my work time preventing me from getting things done on time, and hoping I was at home actually feeding her.

I think that is about it.  Thanks, good-night.