Well, little Eve started walking last night. She took 5 steps from me to Jon. So today she is taking steps all over the place. I can’t believe it. She is only 9 1/2 months old. It is interesting to see the little personality that is beginning to bud.
Olivia had a big day too. My mom has been helping us with some trim the last couple of days and apparently, she has been saying a couple of choice words when she gets frustrated and today Olivia decided to make the exasperated commented, "oh, sh##". I wanted to laugh so badly but of course, I told her that we don’t use words like that because it isn’t nice and gave her a couple of expressions she could use instead but it was pretty hilarious.
Jon got home early tonight at 5:30. It was a grateful respite since he has been getting home at 7:00 or later lately. We ordered pizza because 20% of the proceeds go to Greensburg Tornado victims and are just hanging out. Things are looking up today. I think it is because we finally got the tire aired up so that I could go somewhere and I got outside and mowed our gigantic expanse of a backyard and we took a walk today.
The nicest thing happened yesterday. I drove about an hour outside of town to help a mom who was having some problems and then I called to check on her yesterday and she sounded so much better. That is the best thing in the world, and then I got some flowers from her a couple of hours later. That really made my day. It was truly enough to know that I had helped someone. I truly love LLL. I love helping moms mother their children the way that I have so much enjoyed mothering mine. To have a mom, start to appreciate the joy of nursing and have things start to work out and see their relief, is awesome. (of course, getting flowers was really icing on the cake!)
So, I am thinking about starting up and AP group here. Of course, no one knows what AP Parenting is so I will have find my book and maybe in a couple of months I will be able to find some mamas. I really miss hanging out with other like-minded mamas. Those Wed. playgroups in Manhattan were awesome. I am sure, I will eventually find some like-minded stay-at-home moms here, I just have to figure out where they are hiding…LOL!
