Yay, Fay!

Susan, I need and love my morning solitude so much that if I wake up any time after 4:30, I will stay up. How did Annabel sleep last night?

Cindy is me. Although, I'm more likely to only stay up if I get up after 7 or so. I don't have small children that get up early. I have single roommates who sleep in as late as possible.

I actually slept in today. It's weird. I got up around 7:30, but was still exhausted, so I went back to bed. I just got up about 15 minutes ago. I don't remember the last time I slept in this late.

How did Annabel sleep last night?

She woke up around 1:00 and had to be rocked and soothed back to sleep (DH did it, so I'm on duty if the same happens tonight), but once he got her back in bed (don't know when, as I didn't wake up), she stayed asleep, and hasn't woken up yet. So better than last night, at least.

Solitude has become a rare treasure for me. I have lots of away from baby time built into my schedule, but it's mostly for writing or choir meetings and events, so I'm almost never really alone. I miss it, even though I know I'm lucky to have been graced with a mellow child who doesn't seem to need or even want constant attention and interaction. Guess she's mine, all right--she must like the quiet, too.

I've found early morning to be my only opportunity for solitude. I'm giving it up next week because I am going to attempt to take a 6am yoga class. I've failed to manage to attend classes later in the day because something always comes up. The place I want to go has classes M-F 6am and 8am on weekends. It's a plan.

Good to hear that Annabel is resting better. She needs to get healthy for Mother's Day.

I need some sanity~ma for Mom. She's on the phone with her sister and evidentally there brother did somethign -- said something -- about Mom's last visit (when she went up there for a week to take care of G'ma's house). Also my other aunt, who promised to go up for a week to relieve my fav aunt of taking care of G'ma, has backed out. Because of her dog.

As much sanity~ma as I've got is headed towards askye's mom.

I need to be working on my psych paper. But I don't wanna.

I also need to write my proposal for my Independent Study for next semester. I'm not sure what to write. But, he wants it soon. So, I need to do it.

Boy, contentless content, that I am.

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You're near Mpls, right? Or not?

South of Minneapolis about 60 miles, depending on where in the twin Cities you stand.

(The Buffista map link is busted.)

Bummer.

Owen has finally settled on a naptime. He's ditched mornings completely and goes down right after lunch. Hopefully, he'll decide he needs two whole hours in the afternoon so I can get things done.

Yesterday, he tried to steal a sippy cup from a little girl in $30 Hannah Anderson leggings sitting in a $300 Peg Perego stroller. Her mother looked appalled. I got it away from him (making him cry and throw a fit in the process). I really like our neighborhood park but it's just a weird vibe. Two of the parents were talking on their cell phones while pushing their kids on the swings.

While I push my Graco (the Honda Accord of the stroller world) and O's in mismatched Old Navy t-shirt and shorts.

My park is only a block and a half away from the governor's mansion but we live in the barest fringe of the neighborhood and have a short drive/bike ride to get there.

Logo recently pulled from a Brazilian university web page for Oriental Studies:

How does stuff like this get made???? My screen is now covered with diet root beer.

How does stuff like this get made????

It's definitely...provocative. It's the colors, more than anything else. I'm thinking if the sky had been blue, certain ideas wouldn't, um, pop into mind so quickly.