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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The Mommy Life: Jack Calls Mama at Night
For the second time, Jack called for me by name "Mama" at night while his Dad lay beside him quizzically but also delighted. :D As I nursed him and held his shoulder gently, he clasped his hands around my arm, refusing to let me go. Finally he fell asleep and I snuck back here to blog...
Turns out Jack has some viral infection called Rosacea, apparently a common virus children catch, where he gets a fever for 3 days and then is spotty for another 3. No one knows what discomfort the poor chap is suffering but he has been rather irritable and grumpy. And spotty. Thankfully he isn't vain enough yet to complain about it despite his Mom muttering about how spotty he looks.
Thankfully since the fever subsided, he has been sleeping better. I hadn't slept very much at all the last 5 days and need coffee to stay vaguely human in the day (but then can't sleep at night). But now I have cut off my coffee supply and although rather dopey in the day, am able to sleep at night (and even rest with my eyes closed in the day)!
Recently I have been thinking about having another baby but I am unwilling to stop nursing Jack for obvious reasons: babies breastfed up to 2 years have more protection against illnesses. Plus I am lazy to wean him (how to get him to sleep and nap otherwise... will need to read up on that near the 2 year mark). :p More on getting pregnant while breastfeeding and tandem nursing here and here.
Not too long ago, I conducted a hectic one month experiment to see how much I could earn blogging on my 2 PR4 and 1 PR0 (then) blogs. My friend Shen had convinced me it was a cool way to make some extra money and after signing up with several blog marketing sites, I was in!
Primarily I used PayPerPost, the premier blog marketing company, which offers the most opportunities for a blogger. Between blogging paid and unpaid posts 3 times a day per blog on PPP (although I blogged mainly on this one since TechBot was too new and there isn't much 5 Cats can sell) and other blog marketing sites, I made just over US1,000.
PPP is a great word of mouth marketing program allows bloggers to choose their opps instead of waiting for advertisers to choose them, which allows them a bit more control over how much they can earn. Thanks to PPP's strong community forum, I have made a few friends who are also mothers or mothers of cats.
Still, I was exhausted after the month and now blog socially instead of feverishly. :) But am glad for the chance to make some money to buy some nice things for myself and baby, and pay some bills. Three cheers to blog marketing companies, in particular, PPP!
Pregnant women who eat beef seven or more times a week may be producing sons with low sperm counts.
The exact reason for the association isn't clear. But hormones, pesticides or other chemicals in beef might affect the development of the testes of the still developing fetus, speculated the authors of a study in the March 28 issue of Human Reproduction.
Preschoolers who spent a year or more in a daycare center were more likely to be disruptive in class when they started school, and this effect persisted through the sixth grade, according to a large U.S. study released Monday.
Now that I will be home a lot more, it is time for to consider a few home improvement thangs.
First of all, I want to do some bathroom remodeling. It's really too tiny and I want to expand it into the so-called Japanese garden which is really a murky pond and concrete floor. At the very least I want to tile the extended area.
Next, kitchen remodeling. For a long time now, I have been wanting to redo our kitchen. Not by very much. Just to install a sliding door to separate the dining from the kitchen so I can cook without the kids trying to trip me up to get a morsel of whatever I am cooking.
Time to start drawing up what I want to do and assign a budget.
This post on home improvement was kindly sponsored by Home Improvement Ideas.
So quickly romance fades after a relationship is stable. It is a common complaint I hear from my girlfriends when they are six months into a relationship. Indeed I too have been at the receiving end of it.
Those who continue to romance each other continue into their twilight years. I have seen, albeit very rarely, old couples who still hold hands and share that special look with each other.
Romance is so important for everyone. It keeps the fire in a relationship. It reminds a couple of how much they love each other. It is so taken for granted these days that we really need take a moment and remind each other how precious love is.
Too often, we women forget that we should take some responsibility for initiating romance too. Forgotten how? There are great tips to start at eHarmony.
This post on romance was kindly sponsored by eHarmony.
Today during lunch at Sakae Sushi, Jack decided after patting the window sill, exploring the tatami area, and outer rim that it would be fun to do a tatami run. Now the conditions were perfect. No waitresses, no other customers save for a couple of girls at the far end. So he breached our seating area and took off like a bolt.
He hooted when he reached the end and lifted one hand to wave at us. It was the cutest sight. Then he continued his crawl-run. Touched home base, and went another round.
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." -- Bertrand Russell
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
-- Thomas Edison (Harper's Magazine, 1890)
A woman's romance with motherhood, green living, finance, and this heady thing called life.
