{"id":1007,"date":"2003-09-24T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/09\/when-even-sleep-is-a-luxury.html"},"modified":"2003-09-24T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T21:13:00","slug":"when-even-sleep-is-a-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/09\/when-even-sleep-is-a-luxury.html","title":{"rendered":"When Even Sleep Is a Luxury&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t have anything to blog these days, it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m unable to blog. I mean physically. Because at all times, there&#8217;s a baby attached to me. I thought once I gave birth, I was done carrying the baby 24\/7. Turns out I was wrong. The Doodlebug is a crier. Loves to cry. The only thing that stops him from crying is being held. Which means I end up holding him at all times. In fact, right now, I&#8217;m sitting on the couch, with the Doodlebug lying across my lap, the computer on a pillow on my knees, and my left hand barely reaching the keyboard from beneath his head. It&#8217;s not the easiest going. So I guess I just have to accept that blogging may be a once-a-week activity for me. So a quick rundown on all the things I&#8217;ve been thinking about that I haven&#8217;t gotten to write about: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did everyone see that article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/magazine\/\"><i>New York Times Magazine<\/i><\/a> about the four-year-old skateboarder about to go pro? Maybe it&#8217;s my new maternal instincts (hey, turns out I do have some!), but I found it horrifying. If the Doodlebug showed a proclivity for an activity at a young age, I&#8217;d certainly want to encourage it. But it seems to me detrimental to allow a child to focus so completely on any one thing and to accept corporate sponsorships. I had lots to say about this when I read the article, but dirty diapers have chased those thoughts away. I just want to say, I think it&#8217;s a bad, bad thing (see what happens when you only blog once a week? Your verbal skills deteriorate).<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;ll like me mentioning it, but <a href=\"..\/adam\">Adam<\/a> earned first-year honors last year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbs.edu\">HBS<\/a>. Yeah, Adam!<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>My Doodlebug is the cutest Doodlebug ever.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">Nanowrimo<\/a> again. I don&#8217;t have any ideas for what this year&#8217;s novel is about, but I have a strong hunch it will be baby related. I&#8217;m looking forward to jumpstarting my creative writing.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of novels, I think I have an idea of how to end the novel I&#8217;d been working on. Once the Doodlebug gets on more of a schedule, my goal is to write a page a day. Just a page. That&#8217;s doable, right?<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Tweedle Twirp stayed with us for a month after the Doodlebug was born. She was an amazing help, and it&#8217;s been rough with her gone. She was fantastic with the DB, and she sang him his favorite song, a TT original, &#8220;It&#8217;s Hard to Be a Baby.&#8221; Adam and I agreed that the best way to get through this was to just pretend that she&#8217;s at the grocery store, and she&#8217;ll be home just a few minutes after Adam gets home from school. So far, it&#8217;s working.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Doodlebug is officially short and fat. He had his one-month check-up, and he&#8217;s in the 5th percentile for length (he&#8217;s gone from 19 inches to 20 1\/4 inches), but he&#8217;s in the 50th percentile for his weight (from 6 lbs, 10 ozs to 9 lbs, 6.9 ozs). He&#8217;s definitely his mother&#8217;s son!<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>I knew babies cried. But I never knew they snorted, barked, growled, and squeaked.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve started venturing out again. In fact, we went to the HBS Fall Community party. Funny thing is, <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> the one who pushed to go, that&#8217;s how desperate I was to get out of the house. Who would have thought I&#8217;d ever <i>want<\/i> to go to an HBS event?<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/bachelor\/index.html\">Bachelor<\/a> starts tonight. And yes, I&#8217;m watching. How can you not root for Bob?<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been reading DB <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1563054426\/jennyspage-20\"><i>Barnyard Dance!<\/i><\/a>. Adam&#8217;s been reading him Dante&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385496974\/jennyspage-20\"><i>Inferno<\/i><\/a>. Which is fine with me. It just guarantees I&#8217;ll be the Doodlebug&#8217;s favorite parent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, this position is cutting off all circulation to my left arm. I&#8217;m going to have to figure out a new way to juggle the DB and the computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t have anything to blog these days, it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m unable to blog. I mean physically. Because at all times, there&#8217;s a baby attached to me. I thought once I gave birth, I was done carrying the baby 24\/7. Turns out I was wrong. The Doodlebug is a crier. 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