Truman likes to spend a lot of time on the computer playing letter-learning games and watching Thomas the Tank Engine/Bob the Builder/this crazy penguin named Pingu. This means I spend a lot of time with a second browser window open checking blogs and looking for decorating ideas, and even I'm getting sick of looking at my last post.
I'm restless lately. I feel like I should be getting ready to move, but I have nowhere to put packed boxes unless I want to squeeze around them for the next five weeks. I'm feeling anxious about the month of July, for a few reasons: one, it sounds hard trying to pack and move and be fixing up a house amid four reunions; two, because Truman has been waking up anywhere between 4:20 and 5:40 am (never later, mind you), ready for the day. It's one thing to plop him in front of a movie with some Cheerios at my own house, but when you're traveling and staying with someone else, you have fewer options. I may be spending a lot of early mornings outside...
My mom says I'm an "anticipator," as in I'm always expecting the worst. I like to think it's being prepared, but maybe I'm just being a sourpuss.
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Come and stay with us during the reunion...my children don't know how to sleep past 5:30am, so Truman will have plenty of company. And we buy Cheerios in bulk. So you're covered that way as well.
you do the same thing my cousin does,... stress about the details then when it actually comes to it,. things just work out fine and the stress is gone. :) it's not necessarily bad,.. but I bet the more you recognize it about yourself the easier it will be for you to let some of it be without having it be stressful for you before hand. :) don't worry nobody will care if you plop truman in front of the tv with cheerios while you're staying with them.
Tell Matt to call me when you're moving: I'd be happy to lend a hand!
I think "anticipator" is a synonym for Nelson. We all have that in us, along with our perfectionism and our all or nothing attitude. Something tells me we didn't get any of that from dad's side.
I am a worrier, too. Today I went to the zoo with my kids and I was so stressed out by the end. I kind of blew up at Seth. When I got home, I was thinking I ruin everything because I get so upset. But it's so hard...
Pregnant in July sounds nightmarish enough to me.
I think we Johnsons must have some gene that makes us sleep less; I'm always jealous listening to how much other people's kids sleep.
Remember, the reunion with the
V.H. Johnsons will be here in the valley and you won't have to worry about Truman waking anyone (but you) up. And the Washburn reunion may be canceled on account of Grandpa's health. So, maybe that all sounds more do-able. Also, I'm an early riser too, so I can take Truman outside for a morning walk at the cabin for the other Johnson reunion.
I'm afraid I think just like you do. I try to imagine the worst, because then anything better than that is a happy surprise. I'm still waiting to have a baby with colic....
If it's any comfort, Aaron was up at 5:30 this morning, AND he woke up FOUR times during the night. I'm looking forward to getting him back in his own bed in his own room.
"Anticipator" sounds much better than "pessimist" (which is what Andy calls me). I think I'll stick with that title :)
Carter's clock is permanently set for a 5:49 wake up so you will not be alone in Denver!
We bought our house in a June and I was due with Andrew that August. I couldn't sleep at night with all the thinking I had to do, add that to the air-conditioning malfunction and it being June and I was pregant. The thing that got me through was otter pops.
good grief. you and i are certainly from the same planet.
i am an anticipator. i cannot help it. i really can't. i have to have things to look forward to or i get totally discouraged. (i'm awfully impatient) i'm always looking to whatever is next. it does a number on me in the "enjoy the moment" department.
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