Seven Days of Nourishment: Day 4

Some seedlings. A week of color spearheaded by Curious Bird. Today's Yesterday  Monday was suppose to be green. Today's Yesterday's color was yellow and I was going to catch some skunk cabbage but can't find the camera. How frustrating. How about something that use to be green? Like these...

That were then milled down to these?

The morning after I found out I was pregnant I approached Craig in his office downstairs and informed him that his office will need to vacate the premises. He will have to build himself an out building sooner than later. Right now our bedroom's in the loft and we'll be needing to use our present office spaces as bedrooms. Baby  Drippy needs a room that can be made dark and quiet. Plus, it doesn't hurt that Mama could use a creative space that can be made big and bright.

So down falls a few fir trees and now we have ourselves a mini lumber yard that will build us an out building for Craig to work in (would be so much better for him to leave the house for work - like for his psyche; then he'll have his man den and get building his own shelter out of his system). I think he's still thinking of attaching a green house to it so it'll also be an atrium space he could do his reading and chilling in and then the office will have a loft for guests to crash in.

Speaking of sleep; things that nourish me: Sleep. Can I just gush right now as to how much sleep I'm getting these days? I borrowed some books from our Mother Goose get-togethers a while back on getting toddlers to sleep. I just browsed quickly through them but what they both mentioned was that it takes approximately a month of fussing to get your child to sleep gently and peacefully. Totally that's what happened. Craig gets to her sleep just as, if not more, easily as me now and her sleeps still are getting longer and longer without stirring. AND, my dreamboat of a husband has insisted that I stay in bed when she does stir and tends to her. I can't believe what a difference this has made in my overall sense of well being these days. Plus, I suppose that peace of mind knowing that I will be possible to manage parenting more than one child at night time and that co-sleeping with her has in fact instilled a healthy sleep attitude (which I was kind of worried about there for a while!).

Things that don't nourish me: keeping things bottled up. I don't have a tendency to that anyway but three episodes occurred in the last week that demonstrated how much better I feel getting my true feelings out about some awkward situations and they all turned out really positive. Amazing with being pregnant all these heightened senses; like the bionic smell, bionic irritability but also cool is the bionic relief from letting go of heavy baggage.

Comments

[shelley caskey]

oh my, come and check out my tangerine orange today for color week! did i tell you tangerine is my fav color? just catching up on your blog after too long away - congrats on baby number 2! hope you're over the nausea soon. :)

[robyn]

nice to hear you are looking after yourself!
are you going to find out what sex your baby is?
both my boys slept with me (and still do a lot of the time)till they were about 5. and i never had sleeping issues with them.
they now sleep together(out of choice)i think the only problem they might have oneday is not being able to sleep without someone in bed with them..not a bad problem to have..
love

[HandyCraftyWoman]

Sleep is so important when we have the little ones.

OOO! *excited noises* We need an outhouse situation for dh too. He's been poring over Ben Hunt books for an age. The problem with him working from home is it is actually totally impossible to get any work 'done' in the midst of the family life..and a place of retreat would serve much better..so long as it isn't too far away :)