My, how time flies!
Easter 2006
Easter 2007
My baby’s not a baby anymore…
This post is part of Wordless Wednesday.
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other IV
A (mostly) visual meme today. One day I’ll really try to make this memetic.
Six Things I Didn’t Finish Before My Family Arrived Today
 Cleaning my desk |
 Getting rid of the things the old owners left in our house |
 Installing Hayden’s car seat and putting up the shadow boxes on top |
 Moving Ryan’s trunk and other stuff in the guest bedroom |
 Giving our old stuff to Goodwill |
Vacuuming, showering, second load of dishes. |
Half a Dozen Things I Did Before They Came
 Clean my room |
 Make cute stuff for Haydie’s room |
 Clean my closet (and Ryan’s) |
 Organize the guest bedroom closet |
 Paint these shadow boxes. They used to be white. |
 Get my hair cut. I look a little crazy here, though. |
I’m excited to see my family! We haven’t seen each other since Thanksgiving—and five months is a long time to go without seeing your only grandson (for them).
UPDATE: Since most of this is much needed housework that I’ve tackled recently, this has been added to Tackle It Tuesday, by 5 Minutes for Mom.
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Stuck in the car seat with you
I don’t know what the deal is lately, but Hayden’s been really impatient with car rides. Aside from his normal “Oh, please, Mommy, not the car seat!” rebellion upon opening the back door to the car, he used to be really good. When we drove down to San Diego for Christmas, he could make it almost 2 hours before really starting to lose it.
Two hours has quickly dwindled to about 10 minutes, and sometimes less. And we’re not talking simply being uncomfortable—when Hayden has lost his patience with the car, he throws whatever toy I’d given him to placate him (or his sippy cup) and, if I’m lucky, starts babbling agitatedly. (If I’m not lucky, it’s wailing.)
I assume I am not unique in finding wailing unnerving, especially while wrangling a couple tons of metal in the highway synchronized swimming routine where the penalties are death, injury or property damage.
Saturday night we were driving back from going out with a friend. The trip took, I think, 30 minutes. Hayden was put out before I even dropped my friend off at her car (about 8 minutes’ drive). We finished our conversation, wherein I encouraged her to have children, as she was planning to do, over the tormented wails of my baby. We had about 20 minutes till we got home.
I often try to raise my voice to drown out Hayden’s cries. This shocks most babies long enough to quiet down for at least a little while.
Not Hayden. He was undeterred. He was overtired, too—it was really too late for him to stay out.
Finally, truly in desperation, I tried to get him to fall asleep (something he hasn’t done in months) by singing his bedtime song, “Baby Beluga.” He didn’t fall asleep—but he did fall silent. I quickly segued into his very own song, “Bike Rider.” For the rest of the ride home (and the ride home from his aunt’s tonight, too), he was pretty calm as long as I sang.
It works for us (and it’s a good thing, too!).
This post is part of Works-for-me Wednesday: Car Edition, a blog carnival hosted by Rocks in My Dryer.
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other III
First, the news: Hayden got tooth #5 today! Right top lateral incisor. Hurray!
Now, my meme. Since I got to go hear Jane Clayson Johnson speak at BYU yesterday, I was thinking about how nice it is to live close to a university. So, we’ll look at this from both sides.
Six of the Worst Things about Living in/near a College Town
Traffic. With 30,000 students 8 months out of the year (and 12,000 the other four months), you can really tell when school’s in session. I’m not happy in traffic.
Scary drivers. Maybe this is especially bad here, since a lot of local students are from California 😉 .
Late night noise. BYU isn’t exactly a party school (understatement), but I imagine that late night noise is a problem at other places.
Games. No, I’m not anti sports. But as I mentioned before, I’m not happy in traffic and game days = traffic. Major traffic. Especially when playing a rival.
Tempting fruit. I really want a graduate degree. I haven’t exactly decided what in (Creative Writing or American History, I think), but with a well-regarded university so close, it’s always tempting to apply again.
The campus is our world. Although I know there are a lot of things going on in our community, but it seems like most things are happening on campus. This is more prevalent when you’re actually a student, but sometimes I just don’t want to make the 20 minute trek down there just to get something done.
Half a Dozen of the Best Things about Living in/near a College Town
Speakers. It’s a bit controversial here, but the vice president is speaking at BYU’s commencement. Who cares if it’s Dick Cheney—the vice president is speaking at commencement!
Other cultural events. In addition to the on-campus plays, concerts and shows, universities tend to attract the same kinds of activities off campus.
Games. Yeah, I know it’s up there, too, but they’re fun. Ryan and I started hanging out by going to basketball games together.
Classes. Again, it’s up there, but how cool is it to be able to study something whenever you want (and have the time and money)?
Family. It gets my sisters out here, almost 2000 miles away from our home and parents. If I didn’t have them, I’d be pretty much alone. 🙁
Library. I can’t check things out for free, even though I’m an alumna, but the BYU library is one of the top 3 in the nation. If I need books and other resources on just about any subject imaginable, I know where I can get them.
I suppose this won’t really be a meme until I tag people and other people start doing it, but… I don’t feel like it today. Besides, it’s tough to come up with six arguments on both sides of an issue. I won’t wish this on anyone else (yet).
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other II
Yes, once again we’re playing with my very own meme. Will it catch on? I don’t care.
Six of the Best Things about Migrating My Blog
I like it. Mm hm.
Professional strength! I just feel like I really mean it now that I’m on my own domain and using WordPress.
FeedBurner. My handful of RSS subscribers (hi guys!) won’t have to update their subscriptions. Thank you, FeedBurner.
Blogger RSS Import. This handy WordPress plugin made it SOOOO easy to migrate. In fact, I was so excited that it was going to be so easy (after reading the scariest, most convoluted methods to import) that I jumped the gun and went live on mamablogga.com a little ahead of schedule. (Note that the site is a little touch-and-go; keep trying, you’ll get it.)
Learning. Switching has been a learning experience: I got to dabble in lots of things and experiment in a lot more. To be honest, although I work in a highly technical field, I don’t have very much technical knowledge in webmastering, etc. I knew how to register domains and sign up for hosting, bu I didn’t know how to go from there to a “real” website. I feel a lot more competent. Now I’ve played with 301 redirects, Apache, PHP, MySQL and more.
Get down to business. I’ve been meaning to use my search engine marketing knowledge to start driving more traffic to my blog (though I haven’t decided on if/how I’ll do advertising). I’ve had all these ideas for linkbait and fun features, but I kept saying, “No, wait till you’re on your own domain. You don’t want to have to try to change all those links.” Guess what, I’m here!
Six of the Reasons I Should Have Waited a Little Longer
Style. I still have a few things to update, including a few minor changes to my stylesheet (like changing bulleted lists to show footprints instead of bullets… I think it’s cute; do you?)
Moving links. I’ve moved Technorati, MyBlogLog and I’m e-mailing the few people who’ve linked to my site to get the links fixed.
Moving internal links. I’ll have to go through and change all of my internal links in old posts.
Moving pictures. I’m told that once it registers with Blogger that I’ve “stolen” my old pictures, they’ll stop displaying them. So I’ll have to update all those, too. Sheesh.
Customizing. I meant to hold off on migrating until I made sure I had all the bugs worked out. I got a little over excited and jumped the gun there.
Brain melt. I really like the background color, but I’m scared it’s going to melt people’s brains.
So yeah, I jumped the gun a little, but I’m still pretty excited.