We had a wonderful Christmas and still have out tree up. Giada’s swing is by the tree and she seems to get a kick out of just staring at it for long times at a stretch. She has started to smile more now and she is super sweet. She eats like a piglet and is getting nice and fat. We are still breastfeeding exclusively and it just seems so bizarre that she can be getting all the nutrition she needs from me. I try and eat a fruit every once in awhile to round out my terrible diet of cheese, cheese, cheese. (My God I Love Cheese!)

We are staying home tonight for new years as I am sick and we have the baby, We are headed up to central market to buy Oysters , crab legs and salami. I have a big head of garlic I am going to roast and squeeze on bread with goat cheese too. Brad an my diets start on Monday – which I’m sure Giada will appreciate as it will be lots of wholesome veggies and chicken and so on. Considering weight watchers again. Just putting a stop to the cheese eating I’m sure will make a large improvement.

So what are everyone’s new year resolutions? Mine is to have a planning 15 minutes every night and every morning as I end and start my day to try and put some paramenters on what I want and need to do. Kate has been doing this motivatedmom.com thing that looks promising. I’m still in awe she did this (have twins!!) with no help and no grandma and aunts down the street. WOW!

I have been sick with a sinus infection for the last few days. I knew I had lost my voice but had been doing pretty well,. Not really feeling sick until my TEETH started hurting a couple of days ago. It felt like I had just had my molars removed or something on my top jaw. I thought maybe I had cracked a tooth. I was telling my designer haw bad they hurt when she said ti was because of a sinus infection. I had never heard of such a thing! I checked it out on the internet and low and behold, it’s true! Very interesting.  

So I went to a Doc in a Box yesterday (my primary care physician figured out there was a ton more money to be made in dermatology (i.e. Botox and face resurfacing) and changed practice types – should get a discount for the inconvience after 15 years of loyal following) and they took blood work and I did have higher  white blood cell count. So now I have a Z pack (which I always thought sounded very ominous but it turns out is just arizthromyacin, which I took for years to get rid of acne – I’ll be surprised if I’m not immune by now) and should be on the mend. I did wake up without my teeth hurting so I guess it must be working.

My Aunt Delores had brought over this teapot you stick up your nose and pour hot water in your head – but that whole process was just too scary for me, though she swears it is no big deal. Has anyone tried this contraption? A neti pot? Hmmm…

Trying to get Giada to “go to bed” at 8:00 until her last feeding at midnight. Not super successful so far. It is too hard to let her sit in there and cry.

My Mom reported: I babysat for Giada this afternoon while Amy and Brad got their Xmas tree.  She was a little fussy, but I got to feed her a bottle for the second time.  She really does pretty well with it.  She is beginning to stare at things and people, and it seems like she is trying to figure out who I am.  Seeing me two days in a row seemed to make a difference. The weather is really nasty, cold and rainy.  Only the pansies and the (I forget what you call them) are still alive.  Even my beautiful camellias succumbed.  It is even colder in Missouri according to the paper, but, of course, not as cold as St. Paul and Kate says they don’t have any snow.