Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Exhaustion, Rest and Strategizing






First -- Who needs a thesaurus? I do! I do! Count how many times I used the word "crazy" in my last post for bonus points....

Second -- The reason I used "crazy" so many times is that life with an infant is just that. Insane, out-of-hand, daft, delirious, ape, nutty, unbalanced and all the other synonyms I can find via Google. It's also extremely gratifying (delightful, enjoyable, pleasant, pleasing.... oh wait, I've gone too far.). It's so strange to imagine that this person did not exist in the world before and that I am influencing her every day. That she loves me even though she can't tell me yet and that I love her more than I ever thought I could love anyone are concepts I haven't begun to grasp. Profound doesn't begin to cover the reality of building a family with someone.

But back to crazy. It is so very easy to lose oneself and one's marriage in the fray when there's a baby involved. You're living from feeding to feeding, diaper to diaper and not sleeping enough. Add to that we've been painting and unpacking and you have a life on the edge of sanity. So you can imagine our glee when my parents offered to take the baby overnight so that we could have a little getaway. It was incredible! First we saw the movie "Julie and Julia" (very good, very us), and then we stayed at the glorious Intercontinental Montelucia Resort for a song off of Hotwire. It was the most romantic, totally luxurious hotel I've ever been to and that 24 hours was like water for our souls. We totally unwound.

We also realized that we need to do a better job of taking care of ourselves on a regular basis. First order of business? Food. No more eating haphazardly. We decided to trade off nights and actually make ourselves a good dinner. That has been lovely. We also decided to have people over every other Sunday for dinner and have a date night on the opposite Sunday. Here's hoping that we can not just survive this period but really drink in every moment of it!


Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Sheeeeee's BACK!





Hello faithful reader(s)! ;)

It has been a crazy 2 months. I won't bore you with the details, but I'll give you the bullet dots and dazzle you with photos!

First, Mom and Dad Brooks came out to help us close on the house (Dad is our realtor) and finish packing. They had a lovely hotel room which provided respite from our crazy, packed up apartment while we waited for the closing... which was delayed by weeks! That made life pretty crazy, but we had fun in the meantime. Here are some pictures from the hotel room and from the lovely lunch Mom and Dad took us all to at a gorgeous Mexican restaurant in Cave Creek.




Here's a pic of my mom with Lilia at the Children's Museum, around the same time. She loved the feeling of the fake flower on her cheek!




We did, in fact, finally get into the house. Our house. Our house. It has been insane and busy, but also really fun. More on that next time.