Sickness, Poems, Art and Sleep

[ailbhe]

Linnea soaked her night nappy and had another wet one before noon. She also hasn't had any bouts of serious sickness. However, this is because she nursed all night and cried whenever I tried to leave her side. So I didn't sleep much until she got up at nine. I am so, so glad I could breastfeed her through this illness. Really, extremely, extraordinarily glad.

My book arrived today! It's lovely! I've corrected the typo that appears in my copy, and the pictures are a little bit fuzzy, but that's ok - the idea is there, anyway. I might look for some better image management software than Word on Rob's laptop but I'd have to learn how to use it, you see. It looks quite nice. It's odd to see my poems printed out. I'm considering giving the book to people for Christmas - is that a horribly boastful thing to do?

It took a month from despatch to arrival, posted in the US. And I worked out that buying two copies seperately costs the same as buying four copies all at once, once you take postage into account. I must do something about getting numbers of books to the UK and posting them from here. But I'm not spending any money on it until it's generated its own money. It has to be at least a self-financing project, if not profitable.

I'm not quite as sick as I was yesterday; I can drink tea without feeling sloshy and queasy, which is nice. I can eat toast without any bad feeling at all. So I'm going to have a bath, wash my hair, and get dressed.

Then I'm going to see about doing some art. I keep wanting to and never seem to get around to it. But I'm much too ill to do heavy housework, so I might as well paint.

The back of Linnea's knitted coat is almost finished. I think I have another 16 rows or so of ribbing to do. I will think harder next time I am tempted to start a project on 2.75mm needles. I could have sworn they were 3mm but the needles state otherwise.

The new sleep plan is working. Rob sleeps in the spare room where he can't hear Linnea, and I only wake when she calls Meemee (my name), so she now only wakes twice a night, except last night which doesn't count, and we all sleep a lot more. Loads of toddlers wake twice a night and need a pat or a cuddle, so we're happy with this.

I need to work out what to do for Halloween and my birthday, which are almost immediately I return from Ireland. I will have some kind of food-based gathering here, I think, with cake and jelly and ice-cream and things, because Linnea will also be 18 months old, which I feel like marking. We've come a long way.

A long, long way. And she's walked half of it.

Comments

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I'm considering giving the book to people for Christmas - is that a horribly boastful thing to do?

One year when I didn't have much money, I recorded some of my piano compositions onto cassette tapes and gave those as gifts. Nobody had a problem with it. I'd say go for it.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Of course it's not boastful, it's something you've made! Other people knit presents, you've written.

I'm glad you're feeling better and it looks like L is too - her kidneys appear to be working and she's not dehydrated (and I sympathise with the marathon all-night feeding.

I'm glad the sleep thing's working too. Sleep dep is awful.

Your daughter is 6 months younger than YoungBloke and has been walking 6 months longer! That really makes me grin! I'm so proud of L!

[ailbhe]

Yeah, it's easy to grin when you haven't been chasing a rabid L all over the countryside for nine months... man!

We need to buy her new shoes today or tomorrow. I'm too sick today.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your new sleep regime is helping. Parents sleeping in separate rooms seems to be what's working for us too. Tuesday night, Liam slept on his little bed and I slept on the big bed in the same room, and he slept from 8:15 pm to 5 am (then again from 6 until 7:30)! Last night Eric came back into the big bed with me, and Liam woke up at 11:30, and 2:30 and 6. No good.

And no, giving people copies of your book isn't too boastful.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you're both doing a little better, so that's great.

Squeaky started walking at about 10 months, but it's only the past couple weeks that she'll walk where I'd prefer that she walk. 26 pounds is a lot to carry given the choice that she'll run and wade in a puddle otherwise.

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Where is (or was) the typo, anyhow? Am curious.

[ailbhe]

There is an "of" that should be an "off" in the third stanza of
"What I Did Today"

[rmc28]

I think the book is lovely and would make a great present, and no more 'boastful' than giving other made presents.