I'm boring, I write about my kids
Feb. 1st, 2010 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geminigirlI've been walking around the house singing Man of LaMancha today.
Took the kids to the chiropractor to get adjusted-Miri goes twice a week right now (mild torticolis) and Naomi gets adjusted on occasion, too. They're now both sleeping and I'm thinking about it, too.
Naomi is blowing me away both with the emergence of tantrums and the things she knows. Things like letters-at the midwife's last week, she went over to the refrigerator and began identifying the letters on the letter magnets. She knew a startling number of them, too-a few confuse her...K and X, M and W, M and N, U, V and W, but for a not yet two year old, I was surprised. And she knows at least the shape "circle" too-she knows the letter O, and has some letter magnets on the fridge at our house (I have the ones that spell her name on there right now) and picked up the letter O and looked at me and said "O" and then "circle." It's surprising sometimes.
We've also entered tantrum-land. I shouldn't be surprised since she's nearly two. The one that I can't help laughing about happened over the weekend. One of the rules in our house is "letter magnets must stay in the kitchen so that they don't get lost." When Cayne tried to enforce this rule on Sunday, it provoked a tantrum of epic proportions. What was funniest about the tantrum though was that it would stop when no one was nearby enough to pay attention, and then start again when someone came near. I was reorganizing her bureau while this went on and Cayne was doing other things, which involved walking away to talk to me. It did eventually wind down when snack was offered-I'm sure part of the trigger was "I'm hungry and haven't told you and you haven't offered me a snack yet." We hadn't offered yet because breakfast had been a bit late.
Miri is providing us with her own set of challenges. She's still not established her routine, and so we're frustrated and exhausted a lot of the time. She'll sleep a long stretch, but when she wakes 5 or 5:30, she won't go back to sleep...leaving one or both of us short on sleep. And I am not a morning person. Once she's actually making melatonin (in about six more weeks) we'll work on guiding her to a schedule that makes sense for all of us. (We're not going to let her cry it out, we're not going to schedule her, we'll just gently nudge her in the right direction with swaddles and swaying and all that.)
I've given some thought to what I want to do...I want something beyond being mother to my children (which is, unquestionably one of the most important jobs I've got right now.) Cayne and I will probably take the Bradley Method teacher training soon-not this year because Miri is too young to leave for two days even if the training is local (they hold a training in mid-May in Orlando.) And I'm looking forward to that-if we felt okay leaving Miri for most of two days, we'd do it this year. But what else? I love teaching and I'm looking forward to getting back to it. I'm just not sure that it will be enough. If I've got the opportunity I'd like to do some advocacy work for maternity care reform and to make sure midwifery care in Florida is protected. The question is how...I'll go to Tallahassee this year when it's time for lobbying day, but there has to be more to do, even with babies around who can't be put down (she's actually draped, belly down, over my leg right now.) Something that allows me flexibility to teach, to be available to my children and to homeschool if we choose to, and all that.
Mostly, I just want to focus on being the best Mommy I can be to my girls. Cause I love em, even if they make me a little crazy sometimes.
Took the kids to the chiropractor to get adjusted-Miri goes twice a week right now (mild torticolis) and Naomi gets adjusted on occasion, too. They're now both sleeping and I'm thinking about it, too.
Naomi is blowing me away both with the emergence of tantrums and the things she knows. Things like letters-at the midwife's last week, she went over to the refrigerator and began identifying the letters on the letter magnets. She knew a startling number of them, too-a few confuse her...K and X, M and W, M and N, U, V and W, but for a not yet two year old, I was surprised. And she knows at least the shape "circle" too-she knows the letter O, and has some letter magnets on the fridge at our house (I have the ones that spell her name on there right now) and picked up the letter O and looked at me and said "O" and then "circle." It's surprising sometimes.
We've also entered tantrum-land. I shouldn't be surprised since she's nearly two. The one that I can't help laughing about happened over the weekend. One of the rules in our house is "letter magnets must stay in the kitchen so that they don't get lost." When Cayne tried to enforce this rule on Sunday, it provoked a tantrum of epic proportions. What was funniest about the tantrum though was that it would stop when no one was nearby enough to pay attention, and then start again when someone came near. I was reorganizing her bureau while this went on and Cayne was doing other things, which involved walking away to talk to me. It did eventually wind down when snack was offered-I'm sure part of the trigger was "I'm hungry and haven't told you and you haven't offered me a snack yet." We hadn't offered yet because breakfast had been a bit late.
Miri is providing us with her own set of challenges. She's still not established her routine, and so we're frustrated and exhausted a lot of the time. She'll sleep a long stretch, but when she wakes 5 or 5:30, she won't go back to sleep...leaving one or both of us short on sleep. And I am not a morning person. Once she's actually making melatonin (in about six more weeks) we'll work on guiding her to a schedule that makes sense for all of us. (We're not going to let her cry it out, we're not going to schedule her, we'll just gently nudge her in the right direction with swaddles and swaying and all that.)
I've given some thought to what I want to do...I want something beyond being mother to my children (which is, unquestionably one of the most important jobs I've got right now.) Cayne and I will probably take the Bradley Method teacher training soon-not this year because Miri is too young to leave for two days even if the training is local (they hold a training in mid-May in Orlando.) And I'm looking forward to that-if we felt okay leaving Miri for most of two days, we'd do it this year. But what else? I love teaching and I'm looking forward to getting back to it. I'm just not sure that it will be enough. If I've got the opportunity I'd like to do some advocacy work for maternity care reform and to make sure midwifery care in Florida is protected. The question is how...I'll go to Tallahassee this year when it's time for lobbying day, but there has to be more to do, even with babies around who can't be put down (she's actually draped, belly down, over my leg right now.) Something that allows me flexibility to teach, to be available to my children and to homeschool if we choose to, and all that.
Mostly, I just want to focus on being the best Mommy I can be to my girls. Cause I love em, even if they make me a little crazy sometimes.
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Date: 2010-02-02 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-02 12:36 am (UTC)Lobbying/advocacy is a bit more predictable, and would allow me to plan childcare when needed-it's a better fit for our family right now.