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When we bought this house and had the addition put on it a few years ago, there were two rooms we barely touched: one of the front bedrooms (we had them replaced the light fixture and had also replaced the blinds and doorknob ourselves) and the hall bath (we had them add an exhaust fan because the addition required sealing up what had been the window). That bedroom is our guest room, and that bathroom is where the prince gets his baths even when we don't have company.
( Hall bath )
( The other front bedroom )
This morning my kid was sitting in my lap and decided he'd drunk enough of his milk and said "Want to pat Mommy's hair." Put his milk down and turned to me and smoothed my hair down into my face with both hands. It's actually very soothing. :-) "Close your eyes," he said, with the right pronoun and everything - speaking more clearly every day, every hour it sometimes seems - and just stroked my head and my face and said "Mommy sleeping." When I said no, Mommy's not sleeping, he said "Mommy resting." ♥♥♥
Oh! In other news, I bought a weighted blanket and have been sleeping under it for five or six nights now, and it's quite good. It's not totally life-changing, but I think my life has been pretty easy on the continuum of difficulties, so. I haven't had trouble falling asleep when I first go to bed at night, so the fact that I fall asleep within minutes is not new; but now when I wake up in the middle of the night, I fall back asleep much more quickly than I'd been doing. Seriously: within minutes rather than lying awake for an hour or more. Worth the price of admission right there. And for a side benefit, it seems to be nicely handling the tension in my right shoulder. So I think we have a winner.
I'm working from home today, as I always do on a Wednesday, but there isn't a ton of work to do, which isn't a shocker on the day before Thanksgiving. Some time today I need to make a pie crust. And generally stay out of the way of the professionals who are Doing Things to my house that I can't or can't manage to do myself.
( Hall bath )
( The other front bedroom )
This morning my kid was sitting in my lap and decided he'd drunk enough of his milk and said "Want to pat Mommy's hair." Put his milk down and turned to me and smoothed my hair down into my face with both hands. It's actually very soothing. :-) "Close your eyes," he said, with the right pronoun and everything - speaking more clearly every day, every hour it sometimes seems - and just stroked my head and my face and said "Mommy sleeping." When I said no, Mommy's not sleeping, he said "Mommy resting." ♥♥♥
Oh! In other news, I bought a weighted blanket and have been sleeping under it for five or six nights now, and it's quite good. It's not totally life-changing, but I think my life has been pretty easy on the continuum of difficulties, so. I haven't had trouble falling asleep when I first go to bed at night, so the fact that I fall asleep within minutes is not new; but now when I wake up in the middle of the night, I fall back asleep much more quickly than I'd been doing. Seriously: within minutes rather than lying awake for an hour or more. Worth the price of admission right there. And for a side benefit, it seems to be nicely handling the tension in my right shoulder. So I think we have a winner.
I'm working from home today, as I always do on a Wednesday, but there isn't a ton of work to do, which isn't a shocker on the day before Thanksgiving. Some time today I need to make a pie crust. And generally stay out of the way of the professionals who are Doing Things to my house that I can't or can't manage to do myself.
