At the beginning of this year, in an effort to support my resolve to blog more, I started something new: monthly takeaways. Call it a recap, a reflection or a review. The monthly takeaways are one part blog therapy and two parts a measure of the growth and progress I’ve made in my life (or not). After all, a month left behind means my son is one month older, I am one month older and therefore, hopefully, one month wiser.
My hope is that these takeaways will be fun and interactive and that you will join me by posting about your takeaways from this past month, in the comments below.
So, here goes…
My March Takeaways
1. A Cotes Du Rhone in a plastic bottle. Yes, you heard me, wine from the Rhone valley in France in a plastic bottle. Even my French mother-in-law was horrified.
Yep. A French man holding French wine in a plastic bottle.
2. We are STILL failed gDiapers users.
3. The boy discovered the book shelf. I hope this means he’ll be an avid reader.
And there go the books...
4. Contrary to what my husband Jason says, taking a chunk out of Zinn’s A People’s History does NOT mean our son Mylo can’t wait to read it.
5. The iPhone 4= Happy Husband. Used Blackberry Tour= Happy Baby.
6. Meeting for beers with our babies is increasingly more difficult now that the babes’ have become mobile.
Some of the moms at a beers & babies meet-up.
7. Saying good-bye to a family member, even if it’s just an old cat, is never easy.
8. A year and a half out of casts and our dog Ella climbed the ledge to look out at Brooklyn and Manhattan and bathe in the sun, for the very first time.
"What goes up must come down" doesn't apply to this dog.
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So, what are some of your takeaways from this past month? Please share them with me in the comments, I’d love to hear!
Hmmm…. my big accomplishment of March was surviving my EDD of the baby we lost.
I also survived a visit from my (much loved but usually endlessly frustrating) mom.
My other take away? I discovered the tv shows “Supernatural” and “Star Trek” Equally awesome but for very different reasons. 😀
What a great idea!! I enjoyed reading these. Love the pic of Ella (you go girl!) and the pic of Mylo and the books. As for the gDiapers…I wanted to like them. I really, *really* wanted to like them. But they just didn’t work for us. We finally switched to different cloth diapers, and when the sleep issues got too bad to keep up on laundry, I went back to disposables.
My big takeaway for this month…SLEEP.
Hey Jennifer! We have a super funny story about using the g’s during the first couple of weeks of Mylo’s life. I have yet to write a blog post about it, but really really should.
Hi Ree!
This is a great post. Mylo is super cute. Hmmm….I learned that I can very boldly stand up for myself when pushed far enough. Now I know why I kept that genie in a bottle. It’s power that feels like a loss of control!