Well, it's somehow August, and I'm in my feels about Baby K turning one in about a week. This is a busy month, too—we go to Indiana next weekend for a wedding, then the weekend after that we are having a small get-together for her birthday. Unrelated, I'm seeing the new
Spider-Man movie today, which I'm excited about, but that means I have daycare drop-off instead of pickup.
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| Crumbl cookie delivery |
What I've been up to this week:
- Getting work samples for my job. As a perk of my job (snack + candy editor), I get samples pretty frequently, and one of those this week happened to be a Crumbl delivery of its weekly flavors. This week the theme was soda shop flavors (see above), and my favorite was that chocolate/vanilla swirl one in the middle; it was a Diet Cola Nilla wafer cookie.
- Getting my Crohn's infusion. And my car didn't conk out on the ride home this time, thank God (last time, in early June, that's when my car stopped working and I had to wait for a tow truck in Southfield). It's never fun being poked, but I don't mind the uninterrupted iPad time.
- Watching TV shows. I've been continuing to watch Married at First Sight, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, and Lucky this week. I also started Furious, on Hulu, with Emmy Rossum, and it's a really good serial killer drama—there are only four episodes out right now, I believe, with more releasing weekly. I'm behind on this week's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? but maybe I'll have time today to watch it, as well as Trying, which I haven't had time to watch. Ted Lasso is back this week, too, which I'm super excited about, but I watch that show with my husband, so we probably won't have time for a while to watch, unfortunately. I also started and binged The Hawk, on Netflix, which was a lot of fun, with Will Ferrell, although it reminded me a lot of Stick, from AppleTV (and weirdly enough, Luke Wilson is in The Hawk and Owen Wilson was in Stick).
- Hanging out with my parents. They came over Sunday, and we spent a bit of time outside with Baby K, as it was a nice day out. We may see them again this weekend, as well.
- Winding down pumping. I've now been pumping for a YEAR, and soon enough Baby K will be drinking cow's milk instead of mostly formula (I'm an underproducer), so I've decided it's time to wind down. I won't miss being tied to the pump every two hours, but it's ben hard deciding which pumps to drop and when; at one point I was pumping 5-7 times a day, right now I'm down to three pumps (when I wake up, again around 9:30am for power pumping, and then 6pm or 7pm before bed). Next week or perhaps tomorrow I'll drop the 9:30am pump ... I'm just hoping I don't get mastitis or anything like that. The goal is to be done by August 23, because August 24 I have a work trip and I don't want to pack ice packs and all my equipment, although I'll bring a manual pump JUST in case I need relief.
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| New baby mat we got - SO much easier to clean up after mealtimes! |
