29 January 2009

Sunny Thursday

I have not been able to blog as much as I had hoped lately, but duty calls as I am now a mom :) Greyson is getting better for the most part. He still has occasional problems with the acid reflux but I think we might be on the mend. We are still working on him sleeping in his bassinet by himself and I feel now that I could be going temporarily insane ;)...due to lack of sleep. I actually caved in and took a nap this afternoon while Grey took a nap. Thanks to my mom coming over, I was able to go grocery shopping yesterday and was able to get some laundry done and some bread rising today. This is experiment #3 with the bread baking. We will see how this one turns out. I am really hoping to get the hang of baking my own bread. It will be much more nutritional and probably even cheaper than store bought bread. Well, I've got to go clean the bathrooms before Grey wakes up for the afternoon. Blessings!

21 January 2009

Sleep...Ha...Who needs Sleep!

Well, Greyson is almost 5 months already. I can't believe how the time flies by! For over a month now he has been having issues with GERD which is basically acid reflux. So, needless to say he spits up ALOT and cries frequently because the acid comes up in his esophagus and burns :( At around three months old I had been bringing him into bed with us just because he seemed to be more comforted by being close to mommy and daddy but now that he is on meds for the reflux we have been trying to get him to sleep in his own bassinet again. Ooof! What a task this is! Not to mention he got into a bad habit of "snack nursing" throughout the night. I am still waking up just about every two hours to let him "snack" and change the dipe. I feel as though my nerves are wearing thin as 5 months rolls around with a definite lack of sleep and his only source of food (he is not on a bottle yet). I need some relief!!!!! I pray that the Lord will give me strength and patience to be able to make it through till the little one can sleep on his own at least more than 2 hours at a time. I kind of hoped by this time he would be in his own room. Ha! That is not going to be for a while yet. Sleep...its over rated anyways....right? :)

13 January 2009

I just can't seem to get back in the swing of things. Christmas time really threw me off track and I've been days trying to get my house and schedule back in order. So today I am concentrating on only a couple off things.

To Do List:

~Grocery shopping
~Clean off Kitchen counters
~Pick up misc. items around the house
~Laundry (bedding, towels, diapers)

Probably doesn't seem like much, but Greyson has not been well lately. We finally are trying some medicine to see if he has acid reflux. Yup, apparently babies can get it too! So, this is the first day of the new meds. Hopefully this will stop all the spitting up, hoarseness and crying. Poor little guy :( Ok well off we go a grocery shopping ! Yea! ;)

03 January 2009

Shopping Day

Today Gabe and Greyson are going to be helping me shop today. We have to run out to Costco to stock up on a couple of things that I like to buy in bulk. Olive oil, Vitamin water, and I want to check on some yeast and flour for making my own bread. I tried a whole wheat sourdough starter and made bread from that but I think my starter went bad somehow :(. So I figured maybe, since I am new at bread baking, I would start with an easy recipe. I did a pretty good job if you ask me but the bread was kind of bland. So, back to the recipe books I go to find a bread recipe that hubby and I both like :D Off we go!!!