First - where'd that funky blue line come from that's running top to bottom on my blog??? It hasn't been there. I didn't invite it! Reason number 284 to get a blog makeover! yessssssssss!
Back to the subject line...a bad mix. After having two glorious weeks of a baby sleeping through the night, K-man has decided that he's tired of what we've been feeding him and now will gag if he doesn't like the taste and then completely quit eating. So, on those days, he's on a mostly liquid diet since if he doesn't eat his food at daycare, the only thing to eat/drink is his bottle. His naps have been crummy at daycare lately, too. Apparently, it's so much fun to walk now, that he doesn't want to sleep. So, that brings us to the evening with both of us trying to get a fussy boy his bath in the kitchen sink, using 3 different towels to wipe up the water that's splashing everywhere, making notes to ourselves that we must figure out a way to make the bathroom and the bathtub less scary for him, and one of us trying to shovel a jar of babyfood in to him. Got the mental image? Good. Now add that on top of the baby waking up once or twice a night (screaming) for another bottle because he's hungry. Got that image? good.
I've also been working on losing this baby weight. I get around to exercising around 3 or 4 times a week. It should be more like 5 or 6, but I'm human and I'm not supermom, so there. I've been limiting my eating to 200-300 calorie installments spaced 2-3 hours apart and not eating after 6 or 7. If I'm hungry after that, it's a big glass of lime water. If I'm absolutely starving and think I can't sleep because I'm so hungry, it's a little bowl of cereal. While that works for the waistline, it doesn't jive too well with my blood sugar. I'm not diabetic, I just have low blood sugar issues and they really tick me off. My husband knows when I need to eat before I do because he can see it in my mannerisms. I get a little cranky...out of sorts...weepy...oh my gosh the world is falling apart. I'm okay. Just shove a sandwich in my mouth and tell me to chew, and then all of a sudden, the world is all rainbows and butterflies again.
This brings us to this morning. Didn't get enough sleep last night. Went to bed hungry. Woke up running late. Didn't eat. Got the baby to the daycare. Still had Hubby on the bluetooth where he could hear whatever came out of my mouth. So, I get up to the main intersection where I have a protected green arrow to turn left out of the single left turn lane. The light turns to the green arrow. I look left. I look right. I do this because I don't trust cross-traffic to stop just because a light is red. All is good. I proceed forward and realize the vehicle next to me in the right lane is also moving forward. WTH?? He has a red light and that's not a turning lane! So I hesitate. And then I see a car from across the intersection start to go on their red light! WTH?? It's not their turn! So, as I'm turning left and the dude next to me is turning left right beside me and blocking me from my lane that I want to be in, he starts edging closer to me becuase the car from across the intersection lurched forward. Keep in mind, I'm sleepy and I'm pissy and my blood sugar isn't helping the situation. So, I elbow-locked my arm right into my horn...and I layed in to it. And I kept laying in to it all through the intersection and on in to my lane of traffic and say a few expletitives. Then I try to make a move in to the right hand lane and the dude is blocking me!!! "DAMMMM, people, get out of my way!", I say as I throw my hand in the air at him (NOTE: I am NOT flipping this person off! I don't do that!). About that time, I pull even with him. Him. The policeman in the civilian vehicle. The POLICEMAN in his uniform in his civilian vehicle. The policeman who looks over at me with my hand in the air. The hand that I quickly slap over my mouth. The mouth that says another expletitive as my foot hits the brakes and slows me down. And then I make another turn and go a different direction. And wish I had eaten breakfast before I left the house.
Oh yeah...the GIVEAWAY is still going on!! next post down...
4 comments:
All I can say is that somewhere around the time that K is about 15 months you'll realize that things are a little better. I don't remember how I survived until that point, I think I blocked some of that out. But, you will get there, and it will feel great. I promise.
Oh wow! The things that low sugar can do to you!
Hope things get better with K-man!
What a day you had, plus nights to boot! I so would have done the same thing driving. I am sick to death of drivers NOT obeying any known traffic law and just doing whatever works best for them. If he was a cop shouldn't he have known not to turn left out of a non-turn lane anyway!?! Of course it was prudent to back off considering your low blood sugar, LOL. My husband has that and he is not pleasant to be around, in fact I'd prefer weepy to what he gets.
Hope you all get to sleep tonight. Me too, my 2 yr old gave up sleeping at night when Daylight Savings Time ended.
Uh-oh. K-man is trouble!
With the food thing....try table food. My little one refused to eat jar food. So I would make everything that came in a jar and cut it up into tiny pieces. Carrots, sweet potatoes, even pasta and meat. Plus, it give his fingers something to do which really helped.
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