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liralenTook today off. After last Thursday and trying to juggle Jet and four hours of meetings, I'd had enough. Yesterday was bad enough, even with John taking Jet for much of the day it was swallowed by four hours of meetings again. When I'm half time that's my entire day and I get nothing done of the things I think I should be doing.
Today is much, much better. I even used my old carpal tunnel splints last night and my wrist is feeling ten times better. Whew. Jet's happier, too. He's actually napping for two hours this morning, which is unprecedented, and he slept from 2-7:30 without eating off me again. He did wake up with a stuffy nose and a dry mouth, but after I unplugged his nose and gave him a drink of water he snuggled in and went right to sleep. So his sleep pattern is improving again. That's very good.
I'm happier, too, not juggling so many things. I'm beginning to see that I might need to use Jet as a barometer of my happiness as well. When I'm unhappy or stressed, he shows it decisively. I wish I hadn't lost the ability to know when I'm unhappy, I don't know where I dropped it, but it's gone. Maybe Jet'll help me find it again by example.
Today is much, much better. I even used my old carpal tunnel splints last night and my wrist is feeling ten times better. Whew. Jet's happier, too. He's actually napping for two hours this morning, which is unprecedented, and he slept from 2-7:30 without eating off me again. He did wake up with a stuffy nose and a dry mouth, but after I unplugged his nose and gave him a drink of water he snuggled in and went right to sleep. So his sleep pattern is improving again. That's very good.
I'm happier, too, not juggling so many things. I'm beginning to see that I might need to use Jet as a barometer of my happiness as well. When I'm unhappy or stressed, he shows it decisively. I wish I hadn't lost the ability to know when I'm unhappy, I don't know where I dropped it, but it's gone. Maybe Jet'll help me find it again by example.
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Date: 2001-08-28 06:47 pm (UTC)A chance to look at the forest, or at least avoid the trees.
And I'm glad that Jet is as good for you as you are for him. ;-)
watch out for that .....!!... treeeeeee...
Date: 2001-08-30 11:03 am (UTC)Yes. He is good for me.
It is amusing me, somewhat, that Jet is as uncertain about being around my parents as I am. My parents are here right now, and they're enthusiastically doing what they want to do with Jet, and now that he's not as much of a newborn as he used to be, he has feelings and desires about what he does. It's interesting to note that he's perfectly content to go exploring place, even bizzare, new, and sometimes mildly overwhelming places, with John and I, but has some concerns doing it with my mom and dad...
Anyway... the rest day was good, and I'm taking tomorrow off to be sure that the baby doesn't get too overwhelmed by well-meaning grandparents.
Jet is very good for me, very good about validating feelings I have, even when all he's really doing is reflecting them back to me. Kind of interesting to know, now, that I can't just blow those feelings off because now they actually affect someone else.