Since I've turned 30, I am realizing that it's harder and harder to remember things that happen on a daily basis and the days, weeks, months, and years seem to all get jumbled together. For whatever reason, I can remember exactly what grade I was in when I bought my first pair of Umbro shorts, but I have no idea what I did when I was 23. Or 24. Or 25. So I've created this blog to help keep track of the things that happen in my life so that when I'm 50, 60, 70 years old, I can be reminded of what I did in my 30's.
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overly ambitious?
Today I started working for the second company I signed on with. This may have been overly ambitious...trying to navigate two laptops, to systems, two bosses, two calendars and figuring out how to fit everything on my desk was interesting this morning. I need some time to get settled but I'm not sure where that time is going to come from.
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the friend birthday party
Another loud and crazy day, but this time not in the house. Hannah had a gymnastics party, that happened to be 45 minutes after her friend had a gymnastics party at the same gym. So we were there for four hours, but it was a fun afternoon and the gym really did a great job with lots of great activities and even got the parents involved. If Hannah doesn't sleep through the night tonight, there is literally nothing more that I can do to tire her out.
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the family birthday party
We opted for two separate birthday parties this year. After today, it was definitely a good idea - there is so much family that lives locally that with just cousins/aunts/uncles, we had 20+ people and it was loud and crazy. No need to plan any activities when all the cousins come over. They play with EVERY toy and just run around.
We finally made it through all the prep and the meltdowns of the morning and had a great time, but I was passed out by 10 PM. I didn't take any pictures so once some are shared with me, I'll post them here.
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This is 4!
So far, 4 is holding true to the F-You Four that I have heard about...who knew someone could have so many meltdowns on their birthday!?!
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Interesting choices
Graham and I got to go to Hannah's class today to give out a treat and read a story. For future reference - don't waste your time baking or your money buying baked goods. Give everyone a small cup of frosting and you will have a happy pre-k class. They had a great time with the story; we read a sequel to another story a mom had read earlier in the week for another December birthday, and then we had an impromptu YMCA dance party!
Then, in the afternoon, we were double booked so I gave Hannah the choice to go to Van Vleck Gardens to make peppermint tea or to go to the library for a Frozen sing along. I guess the Encanto soundtrack has taken over since she opted for the peppermint tea option! She got to decorate some cookies so maybe she made the best choice, after all.
And then at home we had some fun with balloons and the heating vent. It really doesn't take much, sometimes.
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pre-pre-birthday celebrations
My brother's birthday is Dec 12th, and his wife's brother's birthday is today, so after dance class we went to my brother's house to kick off birthday week. Hannah had a lot of fun running around with her cousin and her cousin's cousins until it was time to go, and her lack of sleep and my subsequent lack of sleep over the past few days reared it's head. We did not make our best exit, but we had fun of day 1 of 5 of singing happy birthday.
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Hard realities
Graham drove Hannah to work and they were talking about the family in Encanto. Hannah said she wants a brother or sister. And since she doesn't know the vocabulary for her situation, being an only child, she told Graham "I am nothing".
While I have several friends who are only children who had happy childhoods and happy adulthoods, this has got to be the saddest thing to hear your child say.
And it wasn't for lack of trying, which she will understand and hopefully appreciate one day.
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shaking things up
Went back to work today. Well, went upstairs and did 2 hours of IT training. A slow introduction back to my old job, which I left almost exactly four years ago (!). Key takeaways - I need to relearn how to use a PC, and I have not thought about the details of some of the work I used to know like the back of my hand, but reading through a report I need to review has jogged my memory and now I just need to remember the mechanics and details. Baby steps. At least Hannah is paying attention and asked me after school how my day at work was!
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Birthday Party Weekend, part 2
Another weekend of back-to-back birthday parties. Yesterday at Kid Strong, a kid gym. I thought we'd know at best one other kid besides the birthday girl, but turns out all the various music together, sing shalom, and library activities have overlapping ven diagrams and we ended up knowing a few other kids there. Hannah was exhausted after all the obstacle courses.
Today we had her classmate's birthday party at a local art studio. She knew pretty much every kid there but took a long time to warm up and then had a great time.
Lots of parties and then tomorrow...the big day for me to go back to work!
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Kids say the darnedest things...
Graham took Hannah to Home Depot with her friend Alice for a DIY snowglobe project, and afterwards I met everyone back at Alice's house for lunch and to play. While the girls were playing, Alice turned, looked at Graham, and said "You look like someone who would wear a bra".
Incredible. And also motivational?
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PIZZA
Despite very cold temps, we bundled up and went to the city today. Our first stop at FIT was a bust (they were not open yet) but we had a great time at the Museum of Art and Design. There was a fun Barbie exhibit (and a Barbie Corvette you could sit in!) and then a fun open art experience and Hannah spent 45 minutes drawing an entire art gallery worth of pictures.
She is very interested in reading - spelling everything she sees. I think we learned how to read "pizza" today, since I told her what it spelled and then we saw about 3 pizzerias per block for much of our walk from Penn Station. I don't think I ever really thought about how many places you could get a slice.
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new perspective of the library
Hannah and I spent an hour at an eclectic store near her school, full of toys, games, candles, jewelry, housewares, etc. We finally picked out a birthday present for one of her friends (and I promised her we could come back next week to pick out something when it's her birthday). Then we stopped at the library and Hannah got to see a baby music class (clearly she has no memory that we did a million of those classes) and then 30 minutes after they left, 20 high school students came in and started to do research on rain forest animals and plants so they could repaint all the murals in the library. I don't think Hannah appreciated that so many people use the library in so many ways.
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trying something new
I was supposed to meet my cycling friends for dinner tonight and then see if it was worth stopping at the hospital to see my mom after her surgery today. The plans with my friends got postponed and it turns out that I wouldn't have been able to see my mom tonight anyway, so it was for the best that I stayed in New Jersey. But Graham's aunt still volunteered to babysit so I took the opportunity to try a new class at the Y - I've never used bands or gliders, so thought it would be interesting to see how to use them and expand my workout repertoire. As with any class, it's hard to know if it would have just been more beneficial to just do my own thing, but I did pick a few good exercises to add to the rotation.
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child abuse?
Hannah is so sensitive to anything remotely scary in Disney movies that it is like pulling teeth to get her to branch out and try something new. Despite everyone of her friends saying how much they like Encanto, she has been putting up a fight to watch it the last few weeks. I finally got her to watch the first 30 minutes and low and behold, she loves and we've been playing the songs non stop since.
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poop
Seems that a main source of anxiety for Hannah when it comes to school is the requirement to wipe herself when she poops. She cried twice on the way to school and then afterwards her teacher said she was unhappy a lot of the morning, complaining about her stomach hurting, but finally did her business and was happy as a clam after that. It's amazing that 3-4 year olds can already manipulate their bodies to try and not poop at school but I hope the knowledge of this issue can help calm Hannah from any future push back about going to school.
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Busy day
The morning started with a speed shop with Hannah at Shop Rite, a quick costume change and then back out the door to go to Talia's 3rd birthday party. Hannah "adopted" a toy cat that has for now, quelled the need for an actual real pet (thank you!) and had pizza and ice cream cake, so she was living her best life. It was really cold out but after two hours in a windowless space, we went for a quick hike all together (finding all the patches of ice was the main motivation). After some time to play at home I took her to a friend from school's house for a playdate and she had a great time running around, beading, playing dress up, and observing her friend's very silly little brother who took off his diaper about 5 times, peed on Hannah's socks, and spent the afternoon running around naked other than a pink sparkly tutu. A great Sunday!
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personal day
Today I said we could all go to Manhattan and that I would take two dance classes for part of the time while we were there. Graham was not interested in finding things to do with Hannah for three hours, so they decided to stay home and I got to have a few hours to myself doing things that I love. The Horton teacher was a sub but was great and then I got to take a hip hop class with my old teacher that I haven't seen since I took his class online during covid a week before Hannah was born. It was not a relaxing day, and I may not be able to move tomorrow, but it was perfect.
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