Where the Hell Have I Been?

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This is just a short post to say that I'm still alive! New baby plus three-year-old plus three dogs (one going deaf and senile) plus one cat plus a writing career equals INSANITY! Trying to get my assignments done around caring for the children (including the baby girl who is still keeping us from getting enough sleep) is really hard. I'm having to turn in some things with a little less editing done then I'd like to. It seems to be going OK though.

The little girl, who is almost 11 weeks old now, doesn't fit into the nice wake, eat, sleep schedule that I'm trying to fit her in. She sleeps when she wants and that's that. There's no keeping her awake when she wants to sleep. I feel guilty that I'm letting her sleep right now, when she's "supposed" to be awake (according to the Babywise book's schedule).

Parenthood is filled with guilt. I've been pumping breastmilk for her because she won't nurse properly, and I want to stop doing that because it's difficult and time consuming, but that makes me feel guilty too. I'm tired of feeling guilty!

OK, so that's a lot of rambling I'm doing here - but then again, it's hard to catch up on a month and a half in one short post, done while one child is (illegally) sleeping and the other is handing me play money.

Two short bits of good news - the boy is finally pretty much potty trained (although we still have some accidents) and I'm a finalist in the Dog Writers of America Association's annual contest. I'm excited about both!

More later...

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IntricateGirl's picture

Yay! I'v been wondering how

Yay! I'v been wondering how you were doing.

My opinion- let the child sleep. There are no nap police, and the advice will change next month. As a baby, this is the last time she'll get to nap until she's in college, so let her enjoy it. Move past the guilt, because I'm sure you're doing a fine job.

Congrats on the contest!

Cheers!

Thanks!

Thanks for the comment and the support! What's been going on around here lately? How have you been?

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IntricateGirl's picture

Where to start...

Ummm, most of the long-term bloggers have left for greener pastures. It's been really quiet around here lately.

Things are pretty much the same with me, although this has been a stressful week. Thanks for asking. :)

What pastures and how green are they?

Who is gone?

I noticed that the point thing is gone. So now we get points but aren't ranked? What's that about?

Sorry about the stressful week. I thought I was going to explode today from stress, my son was so bad. I got him to nap and thought he'd be better, but not so much. At least I had a break from him...

Sigh.

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IntricateGirl's picture

The point thing is gone,

The point thing is gone, blogitive isn't allowing bloggerparty blogs anymore, the tags will insert things you never said, and most of the long-term members are gone.

OC has switched blogs twice now, Modelmom might still visit on occasion but she's mostly at her peacocks blog, and others are disappearing. I pretty much pulled the plug on mine today. My adsense code is removed. I am concerned about the ads being shown, and even though I'm not making anything, I don't want to lose the opportunity. It may be overreacting, but then again, maybe not.

The stressful week is mostly of my own making. Associated Content has a good offer right now, so I'm trying to do 50 articles in one week. Also, my building might rent, which is nice, but stressful.

I did know about blogitive

That was a serious monetary bummer. I made a lot of money from them. But their new rules were too hard anyway.

Wow 50 articles! Good luck!

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Helloooooo Brenna & Intricate!

I have missed you ladies! :-) Anyways, just thought I'd pop in to see if any of the old crew were still and here was Brenna's post! I have heard form OC a few times on my other blog....otherwise our old community seems to have dispersed. :-(

Brenna! I am glad all is well with you and the baby! I was thinking about you and wondering how it was going. My baby girl gets here in 6 weeks and I am already sleep deprived from major body aches, yadda yadda. So I can imagine it will get worse.

BTW, Please DO NOT feel guilty if you have to stop pumping. I had to with my son and he is healthy as a horse. I had to stop after 6 weeks. You know where to find me if you ever need more talk on that issue. I have to recommed a book that took away my major guilt over the issue "Bottlefeeding Without Guilt". It was a savior for me.

And IG....you go with your 50 articles in one week girl! That is incredible and I envy you!! I have zero inspiration for writing lately even though I really want to do one article for AC per day. Has not happened.....I think I wrote 3-4 last month....too freakin tired!! I really like AC though...and they are my only source of income at the moment (although it is a pittance). I have been put on hold several times for out of town preggo modeling jobs and lost each job to a girl in town. CLients are getting cheap and not wanting to pay airfare or hotels anymore. Sucks for me and my bank account. *sigh*

Ok ladies....I am off! So good to "chat" with ya again!

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I've never heard of that book.

I'll look and see if I can find it. Thanks for the tip!

Yes, the tired gets worse. Get as much rest as you can now, although I know with your son that's like impossible. I was getting four or five hours of sleep for the last month or two of my pregnancy because I was trying to get ahead on my writing work. While that was good for the writing, it was very bad for me.

Good luck!

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No, I'm completely insane

No, I'm completely insane with the 50 articles. I have 30 more to do, and it ends Monday. So I need about 10 a day. I'm writing these suckers a paragraph at a time. lol I'm also quickly developing carpal tunnel in my non-dominant hand. I think my dominant hand is in shock. :D

Modelmom- 6 weeks?! Wow, that's coming up! Good luck to you! Rest now. There is time for writing later.

Brenna, I agree with MM. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. It's far more important that she get food than what type of food. At almost 3 months, she has gotten a lot of the benefits, and it's time to let it go without worrying about it. Cheers to you.

Dang!

Good luck with that!

I actually have enough breast milk frozen to get her to three months, most likely. Maybe more. Probably more assuming I use some formula and some milk.

Now the weaning process is very sucky. Sigh.

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Hey Ladies!

Good to hear all is well. I was thinking about all of you, especailly the ones expecting babies...

All is well here. I have found many more paid opps, for those of you that are interested. Follow the links.

IC, I heard glam.com got major financial backing. Don;t you blog there? Just wondering how that's going....

ModelMom, follow the link and if you have the new blogger-sign up for text-link ads. If they accept you, you should do well.

Take care and pm me f you have any questions. Hope you all get some much needed rest-you too IC!!!!

BTW, IntricateGirl-I can't sign in to BuzzByBlog? Any ideas?

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Hey!

Thanks for dropping by. It's great to hear from you!

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