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May 1, 2001

Alexandria has been doing what I consider to be an amazing thing lately (and I think it’s going to last). Usually, I just nurse her to sleep. Yeah, it’s such a big no-no, but until those weenies that write those books and articles come on over here and put her to bed, then I will get her to bed (peaceably) any way that works, bad habits be damned.

Anyway, I nursed her one night, and it was late (about 10:00 p.m.) and she hardly ever goes to bed that late, except when there are extenuating circumstances. So, there I was, out of boob juice and Alexandria still awake.

I figured what the heck, and laid her down in the crib and covered her up. I stepped out, and I heard a few peeps, and she went to sleep! And lately, she’s still been awake pretty much, and she’s even tried to get out of my arms to get to bed! I am really excited about this, because it makes me feel that I’ve done something right. Believe me, it’s been long in coming, she wasn’t one of those babies that slept through the night all by herself from the day she was born. It’s been somewhat of a battle, but I think we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I am really psyched about it, especially since now she eats “people” food all the time, too. Next step, potty training, LOL. On the other hand, she is growing up, and that makes me wistful. I just wish we could start trying for another one, now. I just loved her when she was just a little baby. She’s grown up so fast, and I want to try to hold on to it a little longer.

I graduate this week, on Saturday. I want to get my hair styled, so I’d better call and make an appointment. I am excited about that, too. My parents will be coming down for my commencement, so Alexandria will see her grandparents for the first time since last summer, so it’s almost been a year. They will only be staying for that day, and then driving up. I am disappointed (but kind of relieved) that they won’t be staying with us for longer than a few hours. It seems such a waste to make an 8 hour drive, then stay for a few hours and turn around and drive right back home. I am relieved because we just do not have the room to accommodate 3 extra adults, with room for all of them to sleep. It’s just too stressful on everyone. My parents do not keep normal hours, they go to bed at around 2-4 a.m. and then they get up at around noon. It really makes it hard to try to deal with that. The last time they stayed with us, my Dad slept until 5:00 pm. That pretty much shot the whole day right there.

This week is pretty much wrapping up everything for this semester, since next week is finals week. I don’t care much about finals, it almost is going to seem like a vacation.

The house-hunting is going well, also…except for the fact that I fell in love with this one home, only to call and found it had been sold a few weeks before. I just felt like someone had punched me in the gut. I know, I know, I had only seen it on the internet, but still…=(

Well, I hope everyone has a great Wednesday! We’re having a Chemistry Department BBQ with a little awards thing thrown in there. I have been looking forward to it all week. I think it might provide some closure. I am beginning to feel sad that my undergrad days will be over soon. It’s weird.

I had this great rant planned, but maybe it will be a topic for next week. It involves someone on a list serv that had babies in January of 2000, who just had another baby (the baby is just under two weeks old). This woman was holding her in her lap while her husband drove, and her 2 year old was sitting between them, and I guess their other baby (born in January) was strapped in his car seat, but none of the other kids were. Anyway, someone hit them, and totaled her car. A lot of people were irate (me being one of them) that she was so damn dumb as to have two of her children (her newborn, no less!) not strapped into their car seats. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but the airbags did deploy, and this woman is one lucky…anyway, I was just furious that someone could be that ignorant. Especially after this same woman complained that her husband’s parents weren’t strapping her kids into car seats when they babysat them. And she wanted sympathy! Someone really reamed her, which I felt was justified.

So, my lesson for the week: strap those babies and toddlers (and older kids!) into their car seat and boosters, because the alternative is just too horrible to imagine.

Candace and Alexandria