grumblings

I've just spent 3 hours online deciding which nursing bras I actually need vs want and then trying to decipher what size I should get. Found the measuring tape (flexy sewing kind) in the basement and was dismayed to find the measure isn't congruent with the size I'm wearing. What's that about? I finally settled on trusty LLLI for my more-than-I-shoulda purchase. These better work (and feel wonderful and be pretty).

Now I'm slumped way down in my chair so that Anna will stay sleeping on me. She's doing that wonderful heavy breathing with her legs scrunched up. Maybe because she is not as cozy warm as me in just her onesie (sorry, it's a boy onesie - I can't find any girl ones in the 3-6 mos size and I am FURIOUS - irrationally more than just a little annoyed - irritated that the new Gerber onesies I just bought are even smaller than the ones I just boxed away - how can they do that to unsteady mommies - it must be true to size!! And why didn't Ruby wear 3-6mos onesies or if she did where did I hide them??) and her beautiful pink bumgenius dipe (thank you Mary Jo - I really, really like it). She's just in her onesie b/c I figured we'd be quick into jammies. But those crazy bras held me up. Anna better not think this on-Mommy, at-the-computer sleeping counts - this is not the night-time stretch - is it ?!?!

Today was traumatic. Ruby removed her earrings for some reason and then wailed, grieved, howled, mourned. Giant tears, her so-fair skin turning paler just so you can see the woeful dark circles and sparkly tear paths and chapped lips. It's a sorry, sad picture. Yes, we held her down to get those earrings back in - just to stop the very loud grieving. Either put them back in now or you will never have earrings until you are grown up and can pay for them yourself (or, as Daddy declared "until you are married" - a little bit funny there in the midst of our saga). She's fine now, except why did I put one of them in from the back? Why? Will she wear sparkly, pink crosses one-forward. one-backward until she is married?? Lord, please help her ears.