Hello, erin! Good to hear you're doing well despite the pet hair and the stressful job. Eye ~ma for your mom.

Having pets makes it SO much harder to keep a place clean! Good lord. I replaced the carpet in half my house with vinyl and it's so much better, easier to clean and better for my asthma too. I have trouble with asthma on the East Coast, but West Coast I can breathe like a normal person. Funny it's just the opposite for you, erin, maybe we should trade places?

flops exhausted into thread.. waves to peeps not seen enough

By the time I read all the stuffs I have to go attend to other things and don't get to say as much as I'd like.

And now it is 5:40 my time and I haven't yet showered so I am going to go do that before I cook dinner.

Thank you for the ~ma, darlings. The ultrasound tech found no evidence of a blood clot. So its' cellulitis. The doctor has faxed a prescription for an antibiotic to the pharmacy. Given that there was improvement over the weekend just from putting a dab of triple antibiotic ointment on the area, and that Daniel has no fever - maybe we are getting off easy. Still I am having a lot of deja vu. Doc said if the area begins weeping, or a red streak starts creeping up his leg toward his heart, or if Daniel develops a fever, he will need to be admitted.

sj, that is some crappy mom-shaming. Why on earth should a mom do something, anything she wants while simulataneously breast feeding? Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

One of my friends breastfed her baby, who was in a sling, while she taught math classes. She figured out a way to arrange the sling and her shirt so that the students couldn't see what was happening inside the sling.

I completed every item on my to-do list today. If I keep this up all week, then I won't have to work next weekend! Well, except for some grading.

Because you should be bonding 24/7? At least that's the message mom's get all the time.

a post meant to shame mothers for using cellphones while feeding their babies.

Yeah, no, fuck that person.

I am pretty sure my mom always fed us with baby in one arm and book in the other. One of my first memories is her feeding my little brother that way. And we all bonded with her pretty well (and we all love to read)!

I did something, I don't know what, to my laptop -- I knocked the power cord weirdly or something and I think the battery fried and the laptop is old, I know this, but it's 9 pm and the Apple store is closed anyway and I have articles I have to finish editing tonight and then more to edit tomorrow so I don't have time to go to a store and I'm afraid I won't be able to get them edited and in I'm going to lose my fucking job over this. I don't know what to do. This feels like a panic attack. I am so fucked.

I got the computer back up with an old frayed power cord and I'm backing everything up because I might be panicking but I'm not stupid. God, I am so fucked.

Moms multi-task. Good thing too since I would never be able to do everything on the list one at a time! What did I do while nursing? Everything I could manage.

Good Lord, sj. That woman would have been horrified at me when I was breastfeeding Em. I got it down to a science. Prop the baby on the Boppy, hold up the boobie with a pillow, cram the nipple in her mouth, and quicker than you could say, "Lansinoh's the shit", I was posting here, buying shit on eBay, and watching Chris Rock's stand-up on HBO.

I give her a big Empress-style ENTHUSIASTIC THUMBS UP.