February 28, 2006
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I would like to invite everyone to www.orthodoxchat.com especially if you have any questions about Lent . I plan on doing “a walk through Lent, Holy Week and (Pascha) Easter” on my blog like I did last year. I know I won’t have a lot of time to answer questions so please feel free to come to www.orthodoxchat.com .
In other news Maria~Angelica was so good at the doctor here are her stats.
age: 4 months
height : 24 1/4
weight 11.5 lbs
head circumference. 16 3/8
The poor little dear had to get 4 shots. She cried so hard and turned so red you could really see how blonde her hair is. I comforted her as best I could. I gave her Tylenol before the shots and nursed her there in the exam room. She has been having a nice long nap. I will have to treat her to a extra rice cereal tonight for her little painful shots today; she will LOVE that!
Today I have been busy decluttering and organizing. I have been following this blog and it has been helpful.
AND I can’t believe this! Jonah , in the midst of helping me, decided to lay down on the family room couch for a nap. That has NEVER happened not in all 5 years of his little life. He will nap if I put him to nap but I don’t think he has ever just covered himself up on the couch and said “I think I will have a little nap.”
Two funny things happened today. Jonah had his friend Turner over and Turner says to me “hey, Jonah’s mom” LOL! I just cracked up! Fr. told me that Turner calls him “Jonah’s dad”. LOL!
Then on the way home from the doctor baby and I popped in the gym for a minute to talk about memberships and the young man kept calling me ma’am! He was really nice he is probably about 10 years younger then me and he knows me from the last time I was a member. Well today for the first time I actually appreciated how polite and respectful he was when he was answering my questions with a “yes ma’am. I remember a few years ago being shocked when someone called me ma’am for the first time now I think I reached the age of actually likening it!
Comments (15)
Sounds like you had an interesting day! I’m glad the baby got through her shots…I always hate having to do that to them! Owen’s got his two year old ones coming up.
Jacob also has a friend or two that call me “Jacob’s Mom”. If you knew our last name, you would know why some of them don’t even bother to try to prounounce it!! {Dh is polish.:wink:}
Lisa, I wondered where you get all your guys matching clothes. I know you match them alike a lot. I haven’t had a problem matching my two, except that now Jacob has moved out of the toddlers sizes and into the 4-7 sizes, and O is still is 2T-3T. Do I have any hopes of still finding matching stuff for them?
That’ll be great, your walk through of Lent. Last year I was just learning about Orthodoxy so I didn’t absorb much of anything about Lent. I’ve learned just enough now to see that I have a LOT to learn about it, like anything Orthodox! I’m really looking forward to reading what you post.
Poor M~A and poor Mommy. I hate seeing my kids get lots of shots.
So are you going to join the gym? I never even attempted it until my babies were at least 1. I don’t know how you will do it while you’re still nursing – don’t you think that would b difficult? Or maybe I’m just a wimp
Poor little sweetheart. DH takes the girls now. Have NO desire to do it, unless I HAVE to. He is MUCH more calmer than mommy. It’s gotta hurt:cry: They cry,and I do too.:cry:
Jonah’s mom?!? Is that cute, or what?!? When people call me Mrs….. I think, that is not me, that’s my mother in law!!!:eek: When in the world di I become Mrs…..???????? Not that that is a BAD thing, but it took awhile fot that to sink in. I also am starting to enjoy the ma’am title as well. Respect is a HUGE issue for me, and what I am instilling in my children. Nowadays there is NO, NONE, respect for ANYONE, including themselves. I just have to get over the, “that makes me feel old issue”. It still does, though, but all I have to do is look in the mirror, and I can see why people call me ma’am.:eek: Thats life, right???:rolleyes:
Thanks again for asking about me. You are so so sweet, Lisa. Thanks again for your prayers, I feel them!!:littlekiss::littlekiss::heartbeat:
Lisa I am glad to see you are your same bubbly self. :love:
Becky I think you will still find lots of things. I never had any problem. I shopped at Gap, Target, Macy’s , Dillards. I mostly did matching striped or solid shirts, sweater vests, kakhis , overalls that kind of thing and I usually managed to find things on sale, I rarely pay full price. CWD has cute matching outfits. You could do a romper for Owen and a Polo for Jacob, that is the kind of thing I used to do when the little ones were still in toddler sizes and Basil moved to 4-7. I always shopped the online sales of Land’s End, Talbots, GAP, The Children’s Place, everything goes on sale eventually so I would just buy what I could find on sale and get it in 3 different sizes. I would end up buying 3 shirts on sale for what it would cost me to buy 1 full price. The boys don’t want to match any more and I am having a hard time! It was so much easier before. But Basil, and I don’t blame him, wants to were “cool” clothes and I am having fun with that and then I try and find something to at least coordinate with the other two. I have bought the same shirt and they just were it in different colors and for now they seem okay with that. Basil is into Orange and Camo right now and it wouldn’t be cool to have your little bros wearing matching camo pants!:fun: Have fun with the matching while it last you have about 4 more years!:spinning:
Tracy I must not excersice as vigorously as you.
I never thought of it before. I plan on feeding baby before I go and I only need a hour and a half to go do what I gotta do and get back. I am trying to decide now if I should pay $15 and commit to a 2 year contract or go month by month and pay $25. I am leaning toward month to month right now. I am also planning on buying these shoes .
Lisa…I usually shop at Gap (my favorite) and children’s place. I can always find good things on clearance, especially at the end of a season. But once Jacob moved up Gap seemed impossible..the toddler stuff seems different than the big boy stuff. Childrens place might be my best guess, but Target and some of the other places seem to be harder to find matching stuff. Maybe I’ll have to go to ‘coordinating’ outfits instead of matching.
Lucky for me Jacob still thinks its fun for him and brother to match. I’ll enjoy it while I can!
By the way, I kept exercising while I was nursing both kids….it wasn’t too bad, especially since they would go about 3 hours between feedings, which would give me enough time to feed, exercise, clean up, get some fluids, and be ‘full’ again before the next feeding. You will have more energy if you exercise, and your body will thank you!
Becky come to think of it I should mention that I tend to buy things on the big side so that might be the reason I didn’t have any trouble. At GAP I mostly bought overalls and striped tees and socks. It has been a while since I shopped toddler boys so I really have to think. I had some great rompers from Land’s end one summer. I get great POLO stuff on sale at Dillards and now Basil is in the 8-10 and the little ones are still 4-7 I find coordinates. The polo toddler has some great sales at my Dillards. I just bough about 5 outfits for a baby shower for about $50 bucks. I just try and stick to coordinating colors or styles etc.. It is so fun though to dress them when them a like when they are little. It makes your pictures look better, your laundry easier, getting dressed and having dh dress them easier and shopping easier. My boys are real men they don’t like to shop so it was real easy to find one red tee in 3 sizes pay and get out the door. :p
Thank you for the encouragment to get back to excercising. I am ready and for me to do it I totally have to be up to it and looking forward to it, which I am. For me a little bit of excercise goes a long way.
The shoes are totally cool! Love ‘em. :coolman:
I would suggest pay the $25 and go month to month. It’s hard to say how it will work out with M~A. What if you find you don’t like leaving her in the nursery. When I’m going regularly my boys pick up the germs from the gym nursery and we’re sick really often because of it.
You know, I only nursed each of my kids for 6 weeks to 2 months (my body produces hardly any milk no matter how hard I try – until with my last one I found out about a pill that causes you to produce but it was really expensive). So maybe that’s why I felt like there was no way I could work out – I was still in the postpartum stage.
You do realize that you have say as to what shots are given when, if at all. It might help in the future. Sounds like you are all doing well now.
Tracy do you mean fenugreek? I use it and it works wonders, I am so glad my friend Stephanie told me about it. Aren’t those shoes cute and the sound really comfortable. The nursery isn’t open the hours I would go but I wouldn’t leave the baby there anyway; I will go when Fr. gets home. The boys LOVED the play room. I used to take all three when they where 4, 2, and 1and half and it was a workout just to get them all there. I would get all 3 shoes on and by the time I did the last the first either had his shoes off , had to go to the potty or a dirty diaper .
The one good thing was that they didn’t need coats though. I went everyday one summer and then I would take the boys to the pool.
Thank you Kh. Michelle . I used to be very worried about the vacs. I am not so much any more. I did put some of the shots off with the boys but I have read a lot now and see that the mercury is no longer in the one and that was the cause of autism. I think there is more harm with letting them go without. I pray that they won’t have any severe reactions. None of the boys did so I feel more confident.
Shots are no fun.
I’m another one who thinks the 25/month plan sounds good – in fact it sounds great. That’s a great rate. We’ve been working out at the local college – more reasonable than the Y and I get an alumni rate. About time I used my degree.
“I get an alumni rate. About time I used my degree. “
Oh, Jacob’s birthday is on the 17th! So he and Jonah are only a week apart. We were pregnant together and we didn’t even know it!
{We were also pregnant with Celine Dion I think. 
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No, it is a prescription drug called Domperidone that isn’t readily available – I found it in only one pharmacy near me. Also, many doctors don’t know about it. My doctor had never heard of it but did write me a prescription and let me use it. It’s actually used for nausea and vomiting – increasing milk supply is a side effect of it. It was a real miracle drug for me. I was never on my own ever able to pump more than 1/4 cup of milk a day. I don’t know what the babies actually got but it definitely wasn’t enough and I had no choice but to give them formula because they were losing weight and getting jandiced. But with the last one, taking the Domperidone I had a normal milk supply. I was soooo proud of myself, finally able to nurse my baby. But as soon as the pills ran out I would dry up again.
Hope it works out for you going to the gym. I never seem to lose much weight anymore but at least I don’t gain, I have lots of energy, and it’s a good outlet for stress. Get the shoes!
Thanks it’s good to be home. Glad to hear yall are doing well too. I think I completely avoided the jet lag this time. It’s supposed to get better the more you do it. I’m sure you have mentioned it, but how long were you in london for? I would like to get out there before August, but we’ll see. I was called ma’am at a restaurant once and considering I look like I am about 16, my grandma thought it was the funniest thing. Yeah. Oh and my mom gave up on naps with me because I woke up in such a bad mood that it wasn’t worth it, maybe it is actually a good thing with Jonah:lol:
Hi Rachel I enjoyed reading about your time abroad, it brought back wonderful memories! I know the feeling of being home though and how good it can feel. We lived in London for 10 years. Both Fr. and I went there to study. We meet through our Orthodox friends in London and SYNDESMOS. Fr. was working on his PHD at Kings, we married in Greece and Fr. was ordained in Greece. Our first parish was in London and Basil was born in London. We have been back in America for 6 years now. Welcome back! Have a wonderful Lent and Easter. :sunny: