YAY FOR SLEEP!!

Maire Shannon has started sleeping through the night!! I'm a bit afraid of jinxing it, but she's been doing for a few days straight now, so I'm starting to think it's more than just a fluke. I realized today that this fortunate change of events coincided with me ending her night time nursing. It's something I'd done gradually, so I didn't think it would effect her waking because she would still wake and at least part of the time I'd just rock her back to sleep. I guess when she found that she was always just going to get rocked back to sleep she figured it wasn't worth waking me up. This has been so great. I've not gotten more than three (four at best) hours of sleep at a time in nearly a year now. The key, though, is getting my body used to staying asleep that long again. So far this new schedule had been good. Maire Shannon wakes up at 6:30, so we get up at have breakfast then play a while. At 9:30 we both take a nap for a couple hours. I've been needing to start my day earlier to get my metabolism going so this has been good. Hopefully we can keep it up.

Update on the year

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I last posted on here. Like so many things, I've been meaning to get back on here, but there has been so much going on, this blog has been kind of low on the list. This past year has had it's challenges, but I've been also blessed so much. I've got a beautiful healthy baby girl who was born last June. It's hard to believe she's already 8 months old. She recently started pulling up and walking around furniture a little bit. She's pretty much got crawling down, but does drop down from her hands and knees to her belly some times 'cause it can be faster. As I expected, Andrew is a wonderful father and continues to be a great husband. He's so great with Maire Shannon and has been so helpful and supportive for me.

Slowly but surely I've adjusted to my new roll and have been working towards some of my old goals of better health and house keeping as well as trying to soon resume some of my old hobbies. I've started trying to keep an eye on what I'm eating and would like to slowly start making more things from scratch and use more natural and organic ingredients. I'm hoping to soon try my hand at making bread.