Skip to main content

We're sleep-training the baby...

So if Ted looks more tired than usual, that's why.  :-)
Bought one more Miracle Blanket because I love them.  That makes four, but one seems to have gone permanently missing.  Four and a half months is late to be swaddling, but he seems to really love it.  The blanket comes with a warning not to use it for more than something like eleven hours a day.  BUT we use it for every single sleep, which adds up to way more... still, he seems to be developing okay, and I hope it will see us through sleep-training.
What is sleep training?
Basically, I sleep in the living room and Ted's on his own.  I got sick of being an all-night nummies factory, especially for a baby who doesn't really seem to need it.  He just latches on and dozes off... he'll swallow if the stuff is pouring down his throat, but otherwise, doesn't make much of an effort.
 
Last night went well (shouldn't say anything yet, though).  I woke the baby to feed him at around 12:30, the settled him back into bed.  He woke up at about 5 and cried for 5-10 minutes.  I woke up briefly and heard him crying, then drifted off again... what a wonderful, caring parent.  But Ted looked well-enough rested, too.  After that, the baby slept until almost seven.  Yay!  Hope this means things will go smoothly...
 
Early supper tonight because Elisheva has her program at 6 at Yorkdale and I have swimming at 6 with Naomi.  And then I'm out doing a parent-volunteer thing for Elisheva's school.  Have not volunteered enough yet this year and if I don't, they'll bill me again at the end of the year.
 
Early Supper:  (must be ready by 5 on the dot)
 
Quiches (two) - tomato (diced from a tin because I thought we had no fresh veg in the house) and baby spinach (because it turned out Ted had dropped off some veggies right on the table where of course I missed seeing them)
Roasted wedge potatoes - yummy, with the skin on for a change!
Whatever-veggie-is-in-the-freezer - nuked with water and salt
Brownie-mix cookies - super-easy:  mix up any brownie mix with slightly less water than the recipe calls for.  Add choco chips if not included.  Make into cookies, bake at 375 for 10 minutes (chewy) or 12 minutes (crispy).  Makes exactly 2 dozen I'm using the Ghirardelli Brownie Mix we bought at Costco - mmm...
 
Starch, starch, starch... oh, plus sugar.  But it fills everybody's tummies, cheaply and everybody complains if we veer too far off the beaten path.
We have become a two-quiche family... two is too many for one meal, but one is definitely Not Enough anymore.
 
The happy news from my downstairs grow-op is that something is sprouting!  I planted dill and basil; I didn't label them because I was feeling adventurous.  One is sprouting like crazy, the other, not at all yet.  There is also a weird tiny white wormy thing I have seen in the soil of the one that's sprouting.  I have only seen one, but I've spotted it twice (or maybe it was different worms each time) - no idea what it is, but it grosses me out...
 
Also, the baskets are sprouting - I have "salad mix" and alfalfa sprouts, both from Mumm's, from seed I ordered last year.  I was excited about basket sprouting but the baskets grew crazy mold when I tried it upstairs.  Downstairs, they're right next to the dehumidifier, and I think it makes a difference.  This old house & its various mold issues ... ugh.
 
Cookies about to beep - must run!
 
Aaargh... where is the milchig cooling rack?  It came with the set of nonstick pans we got at the same Costco trip as the brownie mix, but it keeps getting put away with all the other racks, which are all fleishig!  And now my lovely cookies are cooling in a tinfoil pan instead of on a proper rack.  I used my new birthday silpat for the first time - it doesn't fit in the baking pan so I had to flip the pan over and put the silpat on the bottom.  The cookies are unnaturally smooth & shiny on their bottoms, but NO STICKING!
 
<3
 
J

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You, here’s a

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful.  Three pages are included:  one page with two po

It's Heart Month: 3 days left to save lives!

Dear Friends & Family: Hi, everybody! Sorry I can’t stop by in person... you're a bit out of my area.  :-) We’re out walking up and down on our street on this beautiful afternoon to raise money for Heart & Stroke.  This cause is important to me (I won't say it's close to my heart , because that would be tacky!).  I hope you'll join me by donating online. Growing up, I watched as every single one of my grandparents' lives were shortened by heart disease and strokes, and my father had a defibrillator that saved his life on more than one occasion.  Heart disease and stroke kill 1 in 3 Canadians and are the #1 killer of women. Please click this link to be redirected to my main page at the Heart & Stroke website: http://tinyurl.com/AtlasHeart Thus ends my personal appeal.  Official information follows.  :-))) ----- Heart disease and stroke is the #1 killer of women - taking more women's lives than all forms of cancer combined. But no one is immune. Th