Christmas

Meg’s Update: 2 kids under 3, Jealous toddler, and Christmas

5 a.m. is my new wake up time! I am sitting here watching the morning news, drinking coffee and not cursing the morning… this is how it was supposed to be with L. But, I can’t mourn the early days I missed with L because of postpartum depression- I can just keep living in the moment and enjoy these early days with M!

It’s amazing how different it can be between two children. Maddie is easy going, happy to be held but doesn’t mind hanging out in her bouncy chair watching me and L play. I don’t remember Logan every being that way…he was my grumpy little guy. I think someone up there was listening when I was fretting about having two under 5 – because I am actually enjoying myself!

Are you enjoying Maddies birth story posts? Next, I will be writing about how L reacted when we got home. It wasn’t good. But he is slowly but surely warming up to his little sister. He gives her occasional kisses, and yesterday he was helping her ‘play’ with her new toys by spinning things for her to watch. She adores him, though, I can tell. She’s a smily little baby, and when her brother enters the room she can’t contain the smiles. She especially likes it when he dances around – he’s going to teach her some moves!

I think it helps that my husband works from home, so when I have to concentrate on Maddie, he can take up the slack – Logan has been having a lot of daddy wrestling time, going to the store time, and visiting his grandparents/cousins time. It’s all about redirection, I am learning, when I see he is starting to get a little jealous or frustrated with Maddie all I we do is ind something for him to do where he can get a little one on one time with one or both of us. He’s still learning how to tell us what he needs, so sometimes the meltdown happens before we can get to him — but I think we are doing well with juggling two. 6 weeks in and we are finally getting a rythme.

How was your Christmas? Ours was filled with both joy and worry – My sister in law had her baby, but developed HELLP syndrome so she had to spend Christmas in the hospital sick. My mother in law also came down with that stomach bug that is going around. But Christmas with my side of the family went fabulous, complete with good food and lots of playing with new toys (for the grown ups and kids!). We usually spend Christmas Eve with my inlaws, so my husband was really bummed out so having a good Christmas with my side really helped. We are still worried about his sister, and hope she can come home soon and we can meet our new nephew. It was kind of a rough week, and he didn’t get a lot of sleep.

It’s been a long time since I have done a rambling post, and I wanted to update my bloggy friends! I also have a new design I am cooking up that will probably launch after the new year… I find that I get bored when L goes to bed and Maddie is sleeping so of course I started designing again! My creative brain is back after leaving for 9 months of pregnancy, ha.

Hey, you should leave a comment so I can come read and comment on your blog don’t you think?

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Christmas Cards, Christmas Traditions!

Christmas is going to be fun this year.

We are revving up for the holidays around here, and I starting to hand make my Christmas cards! Since I went on a crafting binge (every bit of that is paid off though!) I bought a ton of stuff to make my cards special this year. This is one that made a few days ago, and can be read about here. It was fun, a great way to unwind! Just thought I would share ^_^ I am really proud of this one.

I am very excited to start our first Santa shopping too. My Christmases growing up were always special, magical and fun. I hope to pass that along to little L.
What kind of traditions does your family have? One of ours is cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. We also only spend it with our immediate family, My mom stopped taking us over our relatives houses for Christmas because she thought it was unfair that we had to leave our gifts, just to go watch our cousins play with theirs. I agree. So we do a Christmas Eve marathon. Two families, one day. It’s tiring, but always a good time!

I am planning a cookie party this year too! I love getting together with people, decorating some sugar cookies, and chatting it up.

Can you tell I love Christmas? It’s not even Halloween yet, here is the first Christmas post! ^_^

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Last post of 2008!

…even though this blog is still a little empty.

Anyway — Hello! So Christmas was great. It was definitely better than last year, which was spent 3000 miles away with only a webcam – bleah! I think last Christmas was the point at which I started thinking about moving back home. And I am glad we did. It was so nice to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with our families.

Christmas Eve was spent with Matt’s family, and it was a lovely time. It always is. I love sitting around the table snacking, and talking to everyone. I am really lucky to have such great inlaws. They remind me alot of my family in the sense that we are all really close. And you don’t have to be someone else around them. It was great.

Then Christmas day was at my sisters house, where there was a smorgous board of delicious food and a 2 year old still opening her santa gifts. I left her house full and happy. I don’t know if it was the hormones, or what, but I was just full of warmth for days after seeing everyone and having two great Christmas’s.

Everyone loved the gifts we got them, and we even got somethings for L(!) which was a suprise. He has clothes now! And some toys…I can’t wait for him to see them all.

Tomorrow we are spending New Years Eve with my sister and her husband Joe. We all decided we weren’t really into big parties this year ( I just don’t have the energy ) and so we will be going out to dinner and then back to our house for desert and video games! Sounds like a good night.

Talk to you soon!

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Last Christmas before baby and Sleeping During Pregnancy

So we are getting ready for all the Christmas festivities to come here in the Burleson home. Presents are wrapped and under the tree, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are booked, and this is the whitest Christmas I have seen in a long time!

All I can think about is next year there will be a little boy to buy for! We found out last week that the baby in my belly has a penis. So in essence, I am growing a penis. Very strange… But we are excited! Matt was convinced it was a girl. Everyone has been telling me it’s a girl because of how sick I was in the beginning (Now thank goodness that has all stopped!) But deep down inside I always knew it was a boy! I always thought I would have boys. Which is good, because I seem to relate to boys better. Even though my niece and I are really close (She loves her aunt Mimi).

My Father couldn’t be happier, and the joyous laugh that burst out of him when I told him was priceless. I already know that he will be the only 3 month old with 12 leather jackets and a motorcycle helmet. My dad really deserved a grandson after all the crap me and my sister have put him through (LOL!).

The baby has been keeping me up all night by dancing for the past week. He has decided that he likes to sleep during the day and wake up at 1am. It starts with some hiccups. And then he kicks my bladder all night long. It’s very strange. But awesome to feel him! I love it. It cracks me up.

I am 20 weeks this week, halfway there! And showing, even though I feel small for 20 weeks. That will change soon, though, because my book says I will grow a 1/2 an inch every week now until delivery. Ugh, delivery, I am not looking forward to that! The kid has a huge head already. 22cm. When they are born, they usually have 33cm heads. He is already ahead of the curve. LOL.

So yeah, that is my life right now. Baby baby baby. I am sure it is a bore. But not when you are actually experiencing it! This is something I thought would never happen to me, because it took so long for it to happen. Now that it is happening, it feels like it is going by so fast! But I can’t wait to meet the little guy.

Merry Christmas Everyone!