Lists

Things To Do While Phillip Is Gone

• Move the boxed up Christmas stuff from Emma's room to the downstairs closet
• Move the grocery bags of booze (from the CHRISTMAS PARTY GAH) from the blue room to the other downstairs closet (or develop hard liquor habit?)
• Box up the 3 month clothes and get out the 6 month clothes (PORKY)
• Laundry
• Choose/buy fabric for the curtain headboard
• Work on Blathering website
• Pack (Pack WHAT I have no idea since NOTHING FITS)

TV Shows I Just Started Watching

• Boardwalk Empire
• Homeland

Books I Am Bringing [Via Kindle] To Palm Springs

• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
• Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
• Polly's Story (Swallowcliffe Hall) by Jennie Walters (apparently these are books told from the Downton Abbey-ish servants' perspectives)

Book I Recommended To A Guy Friend Who Usually Only Likes Sci-Fi

• The Wednesday Wars. And he keeps texting me to tell me how AWESOME IT IS. I AM SO PROUD OF ME! (And him. But mostly me.)

Styles Of Clothes In The Stores That I Tried On But Cannot Wear On Account Of Being Twenty Pounds Too Large And/Or Thirty-Two Years Old

• pretty much every belted or drawstringed dress. Why do these want to cinch me on the WIDEST parts?
• the very loose but rather-reminiscent-of-the-80s tops that require some sort of tank top underneath
• that very cute but super unflattering sundress at Target
• the tank tops with the racer backs. Um.
• that too-short skirt at Target
• the belted flutter-sleeve top that made me look 6 months pregnant

Reasons I Have Yelled [Real Yelling] At My Kids Today

• they won't stop "singing" but it isn't REAL singing it's horrendous nonstop NOISE
• Jack was HOWLING upstairs while I was trying to sweep up the entry way (the pine needles! are killing me!) and when I raced up there he said, "You said you were going to get me a snack."
• two (TWO) pants-wetting incidents
• they got out every single puzzle in the house and threw the pieces all over the living room and then complained when I insisted they pick it all up before dinner
• they would rather run around naked and flash their baby sister than put their pajamas on FTLOG PUT YOUR PAJAMAS ON

Things I Would Like To Be Eating/Imbibing Right Now But Won't Because I Am Trying To Lose Weight Except That's Going Nowhere Fast So Why NOT Eat All The Things

• chocolate cake
• Nutella
• wine
• Nutella
• kettle corn
• Graeter's black raspberry chip ice cream
• a freshly baked loaf of bread (yes, all of it)
• more Nutella (for the bread) (obvs)
• an Orange Dream Machine

One Thing I Will Share With You Then We Will Pretend I Didn't Say It

• Emma has been sleeping from 9 or 10pm to 3 or 4am. Since Saturday night. Which is... A HECKUVA LOT BETTER THAN WAKING UP EVERY HOUR DONCHA THINK??? Also. I put her down awake tonight. And I think she fell asleep. COLLECTIVE GASP.
• Thoughts: Do you think I still have the same baby? Did someone come in here and trade her out? Do we have some sort of OPPOSITE four month sleep regression going on? Is she just super advanced and got through her regression EARLY? 

Comments

[Megan]

-I hear you on the clothes thing. I've lost 7 lbs. It doesn't make a difference in the clothes department.

-My daughter would much rather run "nakey!" than put her jammies on.

-My son is still up every hour. Want to trade babies?

-Also, i'm packing up clothes too. You know, for my son who was born 2 weeks after your daughter. Except i'm packing up 6 month stuff, and pulling out 9 month. ummmm....he's huge.

Happy Wednesday!!! :)

[Dr. Maureen]

Oh, MAGGIE. Why did you tell us about the sleeping? WHYYYY? I hope she did it again, but frankly, I am doubtful, what with this taunting of the sleep gods.

[Life of a Doctor's Wife]

Mmmmmm - Graeter's black raspberry chip is wonderful!

Fingers crossed on the thing you didn't tell us about becoming a TREND.

[HereWeGoAJen]

Why all the shirts that require a tank top underneath? WHY? I do not want to buy and wear two shirts. One shirt!

I will take some Nutella too.

[Jessica]

Does this mean you used to live in Ohio? That is the only place I've ever been able to get Graeter's black raspberry chip ice cream. I love Ohio for many, many reasons, although I'm from Colorado!