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Somedays I write about all I give to life, other days I write about nothing in particular. |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I am still all the things I was before, in "Invalid Item"  , only now I'd like to think I'm better at this journaling thing. I guess we'll see.Here goes nothing.... If you want to read this journal/blog in its entirety, you'll have to be a member, as I have a lot of the meaty entries set to members and above. |
| I can't remember if Lindsay was a newborn or if she was still in my belly when I started singing and talking to her. I'd read somewhere that it was good for babies to hear their parents talking to them throughout the day and all their normal activities, like, "Let's turn the bath water on" and "Mommy's getting your bottle'. I talked to her all the time, in a normal voice, (no baby talk for me) about everything. I can remember a made up little saying I had for after bathtime. She'd be laying on the floor all wrapped up in her hooded-baby towel, and I'd get a bunch of lotion in my hands. I'd rub it inbetween my hands to warm it and then I'd start at her feet and rub it all over her smooth baby soft skin, all the while saying, "Lotion, lotion, lotion...lotion up your feet..." and I'd go through each major body part. I don't know if it helped her learn her body parts, but she sure had soft skin! I also sang to her, a lot. I can't carry a tune and my voice wavers between alto & soprano without knowing where it belongs, but that didn't hold me back from singing to her. I didn't really sing before, except to the radio in my car if I had no passengers, but with Lindsay it was something I just naturally wanted to. Maybe its just part of becoming a mom, I don't know. With LIndsay, I sang to her in the car to help calm her down if she was upset. I sang to her at naptime and bedtime, while cuddling with her in the rocking chair. I sang to her while playing and I sang to her each time we flew to Arizona the year my folks lived there. We sang nursery rhymes and lullabies, but half the time we sang made up songs or popular radio songs. She loves music and to sing, now, but I'm not sure if that's from me singing to her. There are things you do as a Mom that you don't really think about, you just do them, and I think singing to your baby is one of them. An entry for "Invalid Item" |
I went to bed achy and I woke up feeling like crap.  I'm taking the kids to school then coming home and going back to bed asmuch as I can with a 2 year old running around... bleh. |
| Or, "One of my bad ideas" Against my better judgement, I went bridge jumping the summer I was seventeen. Normally I'd have just watched everyone jump into the river that day, but feeling a need to, I don't know, impress or prove something to, my boyfriend at the time, I jumped that day. They say to keep your legs straight and your feet pointed, and I tried. The sting was immediate and more along the lines of pain--I could barely swim to shore, my legs and one arm hurt so bad. It wasn't that far of a jump, but I had obviously not kept my legs straight enough, because I had landed full force in a sitting position. Later, at home, I saw little purple dots all along the backs of my thighs--blood blisters from hitting the water so hard. And I remember it hurt to walk for a day or two. Looking back I just shake my head--I don't know what I was thinking. I find it somewhat ironic that it was on that same bridge jumping adventure that my boyfriend told me that we should just be friends.  I had intended to have a whole list of bad ideas or decisions I've made in my life, but I've run out of steam, so this one is it. But, it is the first one that comes to mind when I think about bad ideas, and I think its probably one of the more memorable ones, for various reasons--so it captures the whole idea I was going for. My leading entry for "Invalid Item" |
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