For me….well at least I’ll have a helper for two days–oh wait only one as he’s playing golf on Sunday. 

I have so much I want to post about, but can’t quite pin it all down. 

Peepers only woke up twice last night–once at 11:20 and once at 3am.  We are making progress and all are all a little happier for it.  Did I mention that she slept until 8:30am and that hubby got up with her at 3am.  Even though I heard her and woke up too–I still got to go right back to sleep.  I hope this is a signal that we are moving towards sleeping mostly through the night.  I could deal with one middle of the night feeding. 

I have so much more I want to say about yesterdays post…I know it’s a loaded topic and one that I must tread on carefully as I am not black but my kids are and so I have to look at it from two sides while I really only experience it from one side.  So, please click on over, read it and chime in.  EDW commented and I think her comment is valid and great.  It is nice that black wasn’t the leading descriptor–that she saw more in my precious little boy than his skin color–but in this case it would have been a helpful lead as he was the only little boy of color in the place.  It is such a hard topic, especially since we often shy away from it to not offend. 

I got the most awesome compliment the other day from an awesomely kind black woman.  She thanked my for taking such good care of my kiddos and for really putting forth a great effort with Minnow’s hair.  We chatted about the products I used–Carol’s Daughter’s Hair Milk and she said that was a good choice and that their Tui shampoo and conditioner were also awesome.  I commented about not wanting to cut Minnow’s hair and she said that I’ll have to eventually because it will be too much to take care of.  She was being sincere and her tone was not at all “oh come on white woman  you won’t be able to do his hair.”  I agree with her, especially since Minnow doesn’t sit still.  I’ll be taking him in someday to get his hair cut…maybe before he starts pre-school (in a year). 

I pride myself on being a good mother and raising good, polite, and kind children.  So far, so good.  We were at the store the other day and a man held the door for us and as Minnow walked through he paused looked at the guy and said “Thank you.”  It was awesome.  Minnow has also begun trying to hold doors open for me, which is too cute especially when the door is a little heavy for him. 

I lost another pound this week and lost 12lbs (almost halfway to my September 26th goal).  WooHoo.  I don’t mind slow–especially this week when I had a really bad week of binge eating ice cream.  I have banned it from our house, because I must eat it all.  Until. It. Is. All. Gone.  That is not good for the waist line.  I simply cannot have that our brownies around.  But I must say if you are looking for a good no-fat brownie–NO Pudge brownies are the frickin’ best. 

Next week at this time I will in Portland for EOR’s first annual board meeting.  I am excited to get to meet my fellow board members IRL and get to meet their adorable children.  I am taking Minnow and leaving Peepers at home, even though I am really having a hard time leaving Peepers behind and may end up taking her with me too.  I know, I am crazy.  But she’s my girl.