How did it become 2015 already? I keep looking at dates like 2002 and thinking "That wasn't that long ago," but that was 13 years ago. I've done this at least five times today, and it's kind of weirding me out. I've also been working on some Javascript lessons, where for a bunch of examples, you have to enter your name and age, and I keep entering my age a few years too young. Why has my brain decided that the past 5 years haven't happened? (I mean, not that I'd mind a do-over on several of them, but I am aware that time has progressed.)

Speaking of springs, though. There was a place in the NC mountains where my dad loved to go for Sunday dinner, and at least one partial week during the summer. They had one-room cabins strung around a small pond, and an old farmhouse, where the owner-operators lived on the second floor. The first floor had become a small general store, kitchen, and big dining room. Meals were served family style--fried chicken, mashed potatoes, beans and corn, biscuits, and pie or cake for dessert. There was absolutely nothing to do--not even canoes for the pond. It was patronized by old people, who sat around on the porch and dozed between meals.

I've been there. Dad swore the water helped his eczema. We didn't stay long when I visited, but Dad use to go back now and then to fill up his jug.

How did it become 2015 already? I keep looking at dates like 2002 and thinking "That wasn't that long ago," but that was 13 years ago. I've done this at least five times today, and it's kind of weirding me out. I've also been working on some Javascript lessons, where for a bunch of examples, you have to enter your name and age, and I keep entering my age a few years too young. Why has my brain decided that the past 5 years haven't happened? (I mean, not that I'd mind a do-over on several of them, but I am aware that time has progressed.)

I often feel the same way.

Gronk. ltc is already quite good at keeping me up all night. She would not quiet down last night.

Yeah, the boys liked to stretch out in the most amazing ways when I tried to sleep. The active baby is both a good and bad thing. I know of lots of moms, myself included, that would move things around if things got too quiet because you get so used to the movement that the lack is odd.

I hope you are able to get in some quality nap time today, sj. When ltc sleeps you should sleep! The rule applies before and after birth.

As soon as I lay down and try to sleep (day or night) she suddenly becomes active. Naps have been impossible, and I normally love naps. And yeah, the minute she's quiet, I freak out as well.

I think when you are moving around it soothes the baby to sleep and when you settle down she wakes up. I hope you can find a time for both of you to rest.

I think when you are moving around it soothes the baby to sleep and when you settle down she wakes up. I hope you can find a time for both of you to rest.

I'm sure that's part of it, but it also seems to be the very act of laying down. I can rest while sitting up and browsing the internet, I guess.

I mostly slept sitting up. It was just easier to breathe that way for me. Sleep is awesome, but rest is very helpful too.

for sj:

Now I lay me down to sleep

and the baby starts to leap

It vaguely astonishes me now that my chores as a child included pumping an old-timey pump-well for the horses & cows' trough; it makes me think of asking my grandma as a kid what crossing the prairies in a wagon was like. (She wasn't amused.)

This was when we lived on the farm, and there was an astonishingly cold and clean spring with a simple metal tap sunk in it that we would stop at and get a drink at -- cupped hands, canteens -- when we went on trail rides or just wandering the woods or trails.