Life is good.

Why?  Because I get to wake up to this face everyday.  

I'm the luckiest mom in the whole world.

and

I have the most amazing husband ever.  

I'm the luckiest wife in the whole world.  

And some random thoughts for the day...

1.  I'm a disgruntled American.  Another stimulus package and now the newspapers are asking for a bailout?  If I remember correctly, none of this has proved to be effective.  Come on, folks.  And...I feel like I'm the only one in the world that isn't ecstatic that Obama is now our president or enamored by all his fluffy speech.  He doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy (or inspired, I might add) inside like I'm reading and hearing everywhere I turn.  Sigh.  

2.  How much easier is life once your kid can sit up on her own?  Seriously, this has changed my life.  Thank you, sit-up gods for making grocery shopping that much less painful.

3.  Where's Al Gore and all his Global Warming posse these days with all these arctic ice blasts hitting the country?  Seems they've been very quiet lately.  I wonder why?!? Because all that stuff Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize (good grief) for is a total farce!  It's what we call cyclical climate patterns that repeat through the centuries.  I'm all about taking care of our earth, but come on...  ***I heard that Al Gore was supposed to testify on the Hill about global warming  a few days ago, but ironically got grounded for days in NYC because of severe ice storms.  Hi-larious.  Now that's some good irony, eh?

4.  I love sunshine and the warmth.  Anyone who says they'd rather be holed up for months because of cold weather (which you can't really go out in) as opposed to hot weather (which you can go out in) are crazy!  I will thankfully take three months of 100 degree weather (and nine months of glorious) over -20 degree freezing-cold weather any day.  Any opposition?  Let's hear it.  In the meantime, I'm enjoying sunny, clear skies at a nice temperature between 65-72 degrees.  I'm in heaven.

5.  I got a tetanus shot on Monday and my arm is killing me.  I have this huge lump around the injection site (which my doctor husband says isn't serious.)  I haven't been able to sleep on my right side for two days now because it hurts so badly!  Bottom line?  I'm glad I don't have to get another one of those for ten more years.  

6.  Speaking of sleep...I've apparently contracted insomnia the last couple of nights.  Is it just inherent that once you're a mother, you can't sleep as well?  Monday night, I couldn't fall asleep until around 10:30, then woke up at 1am and basically couldn't fall asleep for the rest of the night.  I ended up on the couch (after much tossing and turning) to watch some TV, switching between Food Network and the Fashion Police on E! channel.  I finally fell asleep around 4:30am and was soon woken up by Lois at 5:45.  Jason was kind enough to get up with her, but that's all she wrote. No sleepy for Lili - I couldn't fall back asleep.  I still wake up every night between one and three in the morning, I'm sure a lasting result from the hardcore mother training I went though in the first few months of Lois' birth.  Even though Lois sleeps through the night, I'm still waking up.  I guess my body is still on Lois time...from like three months ago. 

7.  Why is it that when I actually have a sleeping baby and time to get ready in the morning I don't want to?  When I put her down for a morning nap, I just want to vegetate, sleep, eat breakfast, blog, write emails...anything but get ready.  Why is that?  Then I hear that little squeal that Lois is awake and the first thing that comes to my mind is, CRAP.  Needless to say, this means I usually don't get ready until about noon.  Same goes for sleep.  If I'm SO tired in the morning, she'll go down for her morning nap and I'll take some time (like 15 minutes) to watch some morning news, check my email, etc.  As soon as I get nestled back into my bed, Lois wakes up.  And it always happens on the days when I am most tired.  Does she has a little devil baby sitting on her shoulder waking her up at the perfect time to push pure exhaustion onto her mother?  I wonder...

8.  I came down with one nasty sinus infection starting Wednesday night of last week.  Thursday it hit me really hard and Friday and Saturday were PURE misery.  Jason was at the hospital overnight from Friday to Saturday (of course those days being the worst of my sickness...) so I was left to take care of Lois and myself - all by myself.   I learned firsthand how hard that is and also gained about a million times more respect for my dear mother doing that with FIVE kids.  At one point on Friday I put Lois on the ground with some toys to play with while I was laying on the couch (she was right in front of me).  Consequently, I fell asleep for probably 30 minutes and woke up to Lois with a mouthful of paper.  She had pulled a file folder out from the lower shelf of our coffee table and was tearing through it like a mad woman.  She was pretty upset when I emptied her mouth of the paper and she found that her unbridled freedom was cut short.  All in all, Lois is the best baby and was very low maintenance so I am grateful for that.  I'm all better now but I don't want to go through that again for a long, long time.  

9.  And the best for last?  Lois is about to turn eight months old on February 5th.  Today, January 27th, Lois cut her FIRST TWO TEETH!  No crawling or anything even close to it (which I'm kind of grateful for) but she's growing up so fast.  As soon as I can actually get a shot of the pearly whites, I'll post pictures!  (How long does it take the teeth to grow up once they have broken through the gums?)  I'm glad all that chewing, biting and slobbering wasn't for nothin'!

'Nuf said.

Thanks for reading and have a fantastic day!