Good Deeds

What is it with people?

In an attempt to do something merry and generous this morning, I decided that I would pay for the car behind me in the Star.bucks drive through in addition to my own cup of goodness. I've actually done this a few times before and it's a really simple way to make someone else's day and fill your Karma cup all at the same time. I mentioned to "Christina" while ordering my coffee that I wanted to pay for the car behind me and that all I asked was that she tell the woman behind me in the shiny BMW SUV Merry Christmas and to pay it forward. When I made it up to the window Christina told me that she attempted to tell the woman behind me twice that I'd payed ahead for her coffee, but that the woman cut her off while trying to speak twice. I payed for both of our coffees and headed out of the drive through with no wave, no thank you, no nod, no nothing. Really? Did she think it was appropriate to ignore the nice gesture or was she just such a crabby grump that she felt it beneath her to acknowledge that someone who didn't even know her just payed for her morning cup of coffee?

Anyway, enough ranting.... Off to see beautiful Christmas lights in Rocklin tonight off of Stanford Ranch and Sunset Blvd. This will be the 2nd year we've gone to see them and they are absolutely amazing. It's an entire neighborhood of about 100 houses that go all out with full yard displays, wooden cutouts, life-size Santas and everything else Christmas you can think of!

Merry Christmas All!!!!!

Mommy Tired

My migraines are BAAACCKK!! I knew that I wasn't going to be able to avoid them for much longer as I've noticed that my hormones are starting to get back on track after having the baby... Which means, about a week or two of intermittent migraines! Joy!! The hardest part of the whole thing is that I can't take anything right when I feel them coming on as most of my meds are not compatible with breastfeeding and the 1 that sort of is, I can't take until after she goes down for the night so I have 6-7 hours for it to get back out of my system. I had so hoped that they would stop happening after I had babies... Oh well... Last night was hell! By the time I was able to take anything for it, the migraine had been pounding in my skull for almost 2 hours... Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep and can't wait to get home and crash tonight.

Regrets

Only now that I have the pretty, pretty princess do I really fully regret not filling out the Duke's baby book. It's so sad to think that I have no written record of his milestones and achievements in babyland... It's like I did everything so backward with those two. I started this blog to keep a written record of the squirts but I sadly missed most of the Duke's firsts, and that makes me kinda weepy. I was in such a hurry to get through the C's (croup and colic)that I never stopped to document all of the amazing little things that I'll reminisce about when I'm old and wrinkly, or right now... If I hadn't been on heart meds that made me super drowsy for two months after his birth, if he hadn't had Colic which made him cranky and not sleep (which made us not sleep), if he hadn't had to deal with multiple bouts of Croup (which made us sleep even less)... If only....



SO, I'm diligently tracking Miss B's milestones and will eventually transfer them from my planner to the baby book... I've also started dating and collecting all of Lukey Duke's wonderfully artistic creations/drawings to be stowed away in his baby box along with my favorite preemie onesie, his hospital wrist band and my ultrasound pictures... God, it goes so damn fast! Please slow down... Let me enjoy my babies as babies for a while...