Babygadget

I stumbled upon this contraption while surfing today and all I can say is…whoa. Overkill or what. I don’t know what other mothers out there think of this. In fact maybe they think it’s really useful. I find it hard enough getting my little guy to pay attention to what he’s doing while eating, I certainly wouldn’t put on this sideshow!

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I can’t believe all the stuff I have on my plate at the moment. When I stop to think about it I get all uptight. Of course there’s Goober Monster. He always comes first, but then there’s this website I’m working on for my Dad’s curling club, and finally the big move & all the packing that goes along with it. The hardest part with the move might just be getting my hubby to actually part with some of his old crap. He is a serious pack rat and just looking around our apartment gives me a panic attack. I mean, we only moved here nearly 3 years ago, yet it must’ve been so awful that I blocked it out of my mind because I don’t remember any part of it. Since we’re now in an apartment getting rid of stuff (garbage) is really simple because of the dumpsters. But if we drag crap that we don’t want to the house, then we have to dispose of it at the other end on a weekly basis. Retard seems to think that we have LOTS of time. He figures a week should do it, but I think he’s insane. I’d rather have everything done and be sitting on boxes than to have to scramble at the last minute.

My little guy’s another story. Goober Monster’s been awful cranky the last couple of days and managed to wake up at 04:30 this morning. *groan* I have to admit he’s really an amazing kid and has been sleeping straight through the night since about 2½ months. He usually goes to bed somewhere between 19:30 & 21:30 and used to get up around 05:30, but in the last month it’s more like 07:30/08:00. I know I’m lucky and truly thank my lucky stars, but it was hard getting up this morning. I suspect we’ll be seeing some teeth pretty soon as he’s been crabby and munching on his hands more than usual. My little boy’s growing up. *sniff sniff*

Then there’s the website. My nemesis. I took on doing the website for my Dad’s curling club almost 2 years ago now and it’s been interesting at the very least. I think I’ve gone through probably 4 different people who were responsible for it and each of them had different ideas for what it should be. I am now working for the most picky and opinionated person I have ever met. While all the others had suggestions, they mostly let me be the designer since that’s what they hired me to do. Now this woman thinks she knows everything like ‘I want the text to be verdana because the type you’re using isn’t very clear…’. Great except that it already is verdana! And every time I turn around I’ve got a list as long as my arm of changes to be made. I just finished setting up a members only password protected area with 1000 members only to find out that it’s not going to work as planned. Without knowing the background and how long this has been going on (which I certainly won’t bore you with) you can’t really get a sense of the stress, but trust me, it’s whopping.

As the title states, yes I really am back. It’s been too long, I know and what can I say a LOT has happened in my almost year hiatus. I managed to let my domain lapse, but was lucky enough to get it back. I will be making some changes (I think) to the site little by little, but for now I just wanted to get back and blog my little heart out.

Okay, so last you heard I was pregnant. As you might imagine after nearly a year I’ve had the baby. It was a boy. He is now 4 and a half months old and the best thing that EVER happened to me. I never knew it could be this amazing! I really loved my job and found it so fulfilling, but nothing even remotely close to spending everyday with my son. I can’t even imagine going back now. I’m so lucky to have a year off with him and thank God every day for my special little guy. At some point I’m going to have to face reality and figure out what to do with him. Do I go back to work? Can I afford to stay home? If I go back, do I want daycare, homecare, Opa-care (granddaddy)? If the world were perfect, I would be able to stay home fulltime and raise my son the way I feel is right. If the world were nearly perfect, then I would have to go back to work, but my husband (yeah I’ll get to that in a bit) would get a shift job to cover the time when I’m at work so that between the 2 of us he’d be looked after. I must admit though that I’m not very realistic. I haven’t even investigated daycares and I know people who have put their names on waiting lists from the time they conceived! I’m in trouble!

So I said I’d get back to the husband bit. Yes, I also managed to get myself hitched. The guy? My son’s daddy and my long time boyfriend of 11 years. Can’t really say that we move very quick huh? My Mum threw the wedding together and was probably the smallest (next to civil services) wedding you’ve ever heard of at a grand total of 16 people including bride and groom. I think that hubby and I probably would’ve been happy enough to continue the unmarried scenario forever, but since we were pregnant (totally planned by-the-way) it was “frowned upon” to not be married, so we obliged.

And in final news, we, with GREAT thanks to my Dad, have just bought a house. Can you believe wedding, baby and new house all in one year?! Yeah, me neither. But it’s true. The house closes at the end of October, so I seriously need to start packing. I can’t believe that 2, okay 3 now, people can possibly amass so much crap. Yes, crap. Mostly my hubby’s. Though he thinks all his stuff is so important, he’s about to get a rude awakening. mwahaha

So there’s a little bit of background to get the ball rolling. Over the next little while (I hope) I’m expecting to spiff up the joint a bit and fix all the old links and well, whatever else needs doing. Oh yeah, like updating my version of WP. Since I’m home fulltime and have the blogging bug again, I’m expecting to update dailyish (what a nifty new word that is). Stay tuned.