A moment worth celebrating

Posted by E-George on January 8, 2009

Before reading this post, start the music. It’ll provide the much-needed dramatic emphasis to help you really feel the excitement that I feel at this very moment.

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OK. Music’s playing. It should be triggering your emotional reaction of anticipation with an undercurrent of joy. Now. Get. This: Evelyn slept through the night for the first time ever. Let me say it again only this time with some emphasis.

Evelyn slept through the night for the first time ever!

That means I slept through the night for the first time ever since she was born! Well, ok, not through the entire night because I had to get up to get rid of those 2 glasses of water and giant mug of tea that I drank last night before bed. Pregnancy has for ever changed the elasticity tolerances of my bladder, but that’s a discussion for another time. She slept! So, I slept! It feels so…decadent. They should throw ticker tape parades in the Baby’s <backwards> R Us parking lot for moments like these!

It’s been a rough week for both of us. Over Friday night into Saturday morning, Evelyn developed her very first cold. Damn. It. Despite her sniffly nose and her alarming number of naps over the weekend, her sleep pattern overnight wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it would be. The worst night we had was when I had to sleep sitting in the rocking chair so she could be propped up. I couldn’t take it all night long, so eventually we wound up in bed and she slept with her head propped up on my arm. That meant she slept well, and I slept decidedly not well. I never sleep well when she’s in bed with me – I have this paranoia that I’ll roll over on her. Plus, we were up periodically to clean out her nose, which is never fun. She doesn’t like anyone bossing her head but her, so when I would grasp her head to hold it still while I used a Q-tip to clean out her nose she’d start wriggling quite excessively and swinging her arms around until I would fear poking her brains with the q-tip and give up.

The rest of the week has been the normal issues one has with a baby who has a cold. She’s uncomfortable and miserable so I couldn’t get mad or frustrated. I felt so bad for her. And, in return for my attentive care and tending what does she do? She gives me her cold. Today I’m sniffling and miserable, but so happy and excited that my feet barely touch the ground. I know that last night was a rogue phenomenon unlikely to repeat in the near future, but who cares! She slept last night. From 7:30pm-6:00am. So you’ll excuse me if I snatch up my baby, give her a big hug, praise her, feast on her round little cheeks, and swagger proudly into the kitchen for a hefty cup of decaf.

In other news, after three years of discussions and delays I have finally executed on a complete garage makeover that includes non-rickety shelving and new lighting fixtures. My fabulous dad has come up two days this week to help me get the work done while my fabulous (although temporarily gimpy) mom tends to Evelyn. Yesterday, under the watchful guidance and excellent communication of my father I completed my first-ever wiring job. We installed conduit, installed extension boxes, ran wires, clipped wires, stripped wires, and terminated connections. It was all very exciting. I suspect one more day and we’ll have this whole project wrapped up. I have pegboard organizers for the hand tools, a plan to hang the yard tools, and some ideas for getting the bikes up and out of the way. I’ll have this garage in a usable state before this weekend and I’m very excited about that. Matthew is so strict about having order and tidiness inside the house that it was baffling to me why we were living in total pandemonium in the garage. I guess one puts the emphasis where one expects the greatest result to…um…result. Of course, I never think of it in time so I didn’t take a before picture. I’ll definitely take an after picture though because of the sheer awesomeness of what has been accomplished.

A week that started out so darn crummy with everyone in the house feeling and being ill seems like will end off on a relative high note. Assuming, of course, that we don’t somehow get smote down for some or another transgression.

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