Would ya look at that? It’s the last day of the month, which means perfect time for me to sneak in a November Currently post.
Can we pretend my opening was way slicker than the reality? I think I’ll just dive right in before I make more of a mockery of myself.
Current Book: I’m still reading The Fiery Cross, the fifth book in the Outlander series, and yes, I’m still smitten. In fact I look forward to curling up with it every evening, alongside Oscar. The Hubby makes an appearance too, not in the book that is, but the bed.
Current Triumphs: getting the outdoor Christmas decorations up. The lights and wreaths have been hung without my furry feline’s assistance. The lack of opposable thumbs gets him every time.
Current Obsession: Downton Abbey. I’ve dipped my toe into season two.
Current Indulgence: Coffee Crisps. These Canadian candy bars coupled with our President Elect make a move north very appealing.
Current Drink: coffee; all day, every day.
Current Food: oatmeal. The kid and I eat a big bowl of this for breakfast on the daily. Really I have a big bowl, and she ninjas a few bites.
Current Bane of Existence: Ave is going through the eight month sleep regression, which means she’s been waking up every other night at random times ready to party like a rock star.
Current Confession: as a result, I got frustrated and punched a wall (not while holding the baby, of course). I hurt my hand. Stupid old houses, stupid plaster walls.
Current Needs: therapy, a higher dose of Zoloft or some better anger management skills. Actually, I’d settle for some alone time because my inner introvert is crying out now that Ave is up at all hours. Maybe I can cocoon myself in cotton candy because fluffy sugar is better than the hard stuff.
Current Non-Guilty Pleasure: sitting fireside. It’s one of my favorite places to be during the colder months. Also the tiny human is fascinated with the flames; it’s possible she’s going to be a pyromaniac. Like mother, like daughter.
Current Excitement: I had a big spike in my blog traffic on Thanksgiving and the day prior, specifically for these Savory Parmesan Mashed Sweet Potatoes, which means my spuds adorned some of your holiday tables and that makes my potato loving heart happy.
Current Blessing: despite our sleepless ways and sore knuckles, the Hubby and I are in a position where I can stay home with the babe, and that is amazing. We’re so fortunate, and I don’t forget it for a second.
Current Wish List: unlimited Etsy funds for no particular reason (cough, planner stickers, cough). Someone else has taken an interest, so I might have to learn how to share.
Current Thankfulness: 59 degree (15 Celsius) weather in November, so I didn’t freeze my non-ass ass off when I hung the Christmas lights. I’ll take it, happily too.
Current Mood: content and hopeful Ave sleeps through the night. Cross your fingers for us.
Your turn. What’s Currently going on in your world? Current book? Current obsession? Current confession?
I seriously can’t handle how cute Ave is! I’ve been on Etsy way too often lately. I need to stop but I want everything! ughhh haha
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Etsy is a black hole of delight.
Fingers crossed! And toes too, if only in my mind. I don’t think anyone can really do that. A well rested Mom is a Mom with nice looking walls.
I have two pair of those cute mismatched cuddly warm socks! Love them!
Those socks are the best. I’ve had them for years and they have proven themselves worthy.
All my digits are crossed…the little stinker. 🙂
Meghan recently posted…Currently: November 2016
I am Outlander obsessed and would watch Season 2 again if I wasn’t also needing to make time for The Crown and Poldark. Why is there not more time??? Did you finish Gilmore Girls? I did… and I’m not sure what to think. I won’t say more, though.
Okay, I may have to just splurge on a new planner now and stickers… my current one feels far too formal and boring.
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I only watched the first episode of Gilmore Girls. I’m going to try and hold off on the others until my bestie and I can get together again. God grant me patience.
I need to add Outlander to my TV viewing list. Is it on Netflix?
You can watch the first season on Netflix, I think? Or maybe Amazon… I have the Starz add-on to my Amazon Prime so I can watch that one as soon as new seasons come out. Don’t tell my husband I spend $8 a month on one show… maybe I should actually watch other shows on there. Haha!
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Your secret is safe with me.
I still can’t get over the fact we have the same socks. I can’t even remember where I got them from, but I know it was some remote little store in the forest somewhere. Something like that, anyway, which makes it even more amazing that we have the same socks. It’s just meant to be. I’d post pictures of mine but Jake stole them last year and probably uses them to store weed. SIGH.
I love Ave’s socks though. Maybe I’ll get a pair. I’m pretty sure Jake wouldn’t steal those ones from me.
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I got the socks for Christmas more than one year running and they’re kind of my favorite. You need to steal them back from Jake, especially since I’m sure there are far better weed storage solutions these days. 🙂
Meghan recently posted…Currently: November 2016
I’m quite sure punching a wall was warranted. I’d probably have done worse by now! I really think those rockin’ sock you put her in are contributing to her rockstar-esque sleep schedule.
Also, if you want to make a run for the northern border I’ll totally join you. Eh?
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I hear Vancouver is pretty amazing. Montreal is supposed to be beautiful too. 🙂
oh my stars, i am sending you all the sleeping zzzz’s and sleepy vibes! Ave looks like one helluva happy munchkin, and utterly adorable. i hear ya on the anger management, as i read posts about post partum blues i am left wondering what about post partum rage? or fits of fire? we rushed to the doc yesterday because her vajayjay was red and i was concerned, which it turned out to be just diaper rash and a reaction to 2 days on another brand of formula. well, we know she hated the formula and she paid us back with fits. poor thing, i felt so bad. we got stuck in traffic and she cried the roof off; i pulled over 4 times to readjust and try to pacify her but she wasn’t having any of it. i think i literally screamed. i was in tears. i felt angry and helpless. i think i prayed out loud to jesus to help me. had my husband called i probably would have yelled at him, for no reason other than i was so frustrated. hearing my baby cry when i’m driving makes me feel so helpless. it sucks. thankfully it doesn’t happen all that often… but when it does, whoa oh boy.
once we got home she ate and passed out for hours. le sigh. thankfully the sweet highs are so much sweeter and higher than the lows.
i’m fueled with constant anxiety, elation, joy, delirium, and coffee. ya with me?
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Post partum rage is definitely a thing and so much more fitting than depression. Being trapped in a car with a howling baby is no joke. It makes me want to jump out of my skin.
I’m absolutely with you…to infinity and beyond.
Meghan recently posted…Motherhood to Music
I wish I could take you – and each of our inner starved introvert selves – out for a retreat where we get all the time in the world to be in silence and play with our planners and catch up on our “us” time. My inner self is not sure whether to punch walls or cry or just melt into my couch like a numbed out zombie right now. So I feel for you, and your hand. Take care of those fingers though, you need them to write posts and continue giving me laughs.
Oh and I would currently like to face plant into that sweet potato mash, thank you very much.
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You and me my dear; we are on the same wave length right now. Here’s to us having some alone and down time soon.
Meghan recently posted…Motherhood to Music
Thank you for the Celsius conversion…. I never know how to covert the two… Maybe I should learn!
I hope your hand is ok. I sure have punched a few cushions in my time but have avoided the wall! I know the feeling though (obviously the reason being different) and it’s horrible. I hope Ave’s sleep gets better lovely.
Current confession – I keep on putting off my currently posts…. Actually I think I will leave them for the rest of this year. I feel like they are just a culmination of my Friday favourites!
Jen @ Chase the Red Grape recently posted…5 gifts you need to give this Christmas #5TTT
I always use Google for the temperature conversion, so I can’t take all the credit. Ave is still struggling with her sleep so I can keep telling myself “This too shall pass.” That and I’ve been going for walks with her while listening to some podcasts (Cough, Chase the Red Grape, cough: I love my Magic Bars got a shout out in there – you rock!!).
Meghan recently posted…Motherhood to Music
I’m sorry to hear you’re still having trouble with the sleep thing. My cousin is going through something similar with her babe right now, so I am hoping it gets better for both of you!
As for your thoughts on heading to Canada…let’s just say I’ve fled the country twice before and I’m seriously considering doing it again…
We struggled a bit with the four month sleep regression and then things righted themselves for awhile. Now we’re onto the 8 month sleep regression a few weeks early. It’ll pass…I hope. 🙂
Being an ex-pat has a certain ring to it.
Meghan recently posted…Motherhood to Music
I love the coffee and gangster rap pic – my mood exactly 😀
I am sorry your hand hurts. I once hurt my toe really badly when I kicked my wall out of frustration. I also once completely smashed my phone when I threw it against a wall. It kept shutting down and I was super frustrated. Hang in there! Once that regression is over she will sleep better again. And then you’ll have more time to yourself.
On a lighter note,I have a folder for my sticker and tape now. I carry it with me and the planner. The obsession is real. When I don’t have my stickers and special erasable gel pens I don’t put things down in my planner. I think it’s not solely about planning anymore 😉
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She slept! Through the night, last night! In fact, she’s still sleeping. Hallelujah.
I have a drawer full of stickers and washi. It’s definitely not just about planning anymore. 🙂
Five month sleep regression sounds pretty damn awful, frankly. Occasionally I think, “Oh boy I really want kids soon,” and then I read your blog and talk to my cousin with a little girl pretty close in age to Ave, and I’m like, “They’re cute and all, but…” Which is not to say that I don’t empathize. I’m sure you’re an amazing mother through the thick and thin of it all. Besides, I’m not an expert or anything, but I figure important thing is that you punched the wall, not the kid or the hubby or Oscar. Or anything valuable. 😛 Besides the fact that your hand is valuable, of course.
Hope you enjoyed that 59 degree day! Colorado is cold cold cold at the moment.
Joyce @ The Hungry Caterpillar recently posted…Caterpillar Crawl: November 2016
Kids are definitely game changers. I didn’t entirely know what I was getting myself into and most days I still don’t. I’m learning pretty quickly though, before I harm more limbs. 🙂
Meghan recently posted…Motherhood to Music
I still say that the first several months of my son’s life were the absolutely hardest but you are almost through it I swear! he was toughest between 7 – 11 months but once I got him sleeping through the night in his crib (with his wake up at 4 am to then switch him to my room where he finished sleeping I considered that through the night) things were so much better. ugh, I know how I feel I swear it, especially with the nursing part combined with the wake ups. I promise the sleep through the night days are soon! I promise! I remember being SO NAUSEOUS TIRED one night after he was up so many times around 11 months old combined with constantly nursing. I am pretty sure it was the next night where I said listen kid, you are going to sleep in this crib without waking up until morning and I will do my best to not humor you at all should you wake up looking for me. and i swear he listened. it was a big life moment lol
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Ave actually was sleeping through the night for month, and I’m talking like 11 to 12 hours at a time and then she just lost it, and I’m not totally sure why. I got spoiled there for a minute. I think we’re getting back there though since she made it through the night last night and her naps appear to be back on track. Cross those fingers for me.
Thanks for all your support and pep talks. I really appreciate it.
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Current feeling: Really understand and agree with you at some points: Nestle Coffee Crisp is addicted and yes better anger management therapy. ‘Cause I’m a bit stressed out these days. So busy. Lucky you to have baby angel there 🙂
P/s: I think your feline friend’s face is saying “I have a plan for Christmas now mwahahaha”. So beware lol.
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Baby angel is what’s making me so stressed….the lack of sleep is a real adversary. She’s well worth it though.
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You know you’re totally welcome up North 🙂 Although I say you go north and then a little bit west. Not all the way to the coast, but enough to get to the prairies. And I totally know what you mean about needing an unlimited Etsy fund. I’ve actually managed to stay off Etsy for a little while seeing as my sticker situation is a little out of control right now, but my shopping cart is still ridiculously loaded.
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Haha just look at that smile of your little rock star! How cute she is! Really understand the lack of sleep and stress you’re going through. But don’t worry, everything will be better as your baby grows up. I would recommend a good hot bath to relax.Merry Christmas to your lovely family!
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