Well, it’s been 11 days since my last post. Time just flies, whether you are having fun or not :|

Just life I guess.

PAMPERED CHEF
I closed a Pampered Chef show and it delivered in a week! I am planning to do a Pampered Chef fundraiser show for Zander’s school in June.

MAIDANET
Also, I have been getting a lot of little website jobs lately. I know I said no more new clients, but these are small websites, and from referrals. Doug is actually going to do one site for me, since the client requested something like the Strange Loop site he created in Flash.

Current clients are contacting me for work, too – a big library project for True Believers, a big redesign for Legend Antiques and some small changes for RisenFaith online bookstore.

LIFE AT HOME
I hope I don’t jinx myself by writing this down, but things have been going good at home.

Zander went to school the last three times without crying! He complains at home the whole morning about not wanting to go, but when he gets there, he just gets into whatever activity they are doing (play-doh, water play, etc) and I am able to go without a big scene. That’s a relief.

He is just amazing. His speech is unbelievable. I wouldn’t know any better except that everyone tells us so. His sentences are so sophisticated. And he can just be so sweet! Especially if he’s just been ornery and needs to get out of being in trouble.

Zevan and I are making improvements in his sleeping at night. He is not nursing between 10 PM and 4 AM. He does still wake up at midnight (takes 5 minutes or less to get him back to sleep) and then at 2 AM (can take 5-15 minutes to get him back to sleep), but he doesn’t nurse until his 4 AM wake up. Hopefully, once we establish this pattern, he will not even wake up the times he doesn’t nurse.

He really isn’t a baby anymore. He is not quite walking yet, but he can. He can take steps, stop, and take more steps. He just finds crawling and cruising much more efficient for getting around. And he is saying words now…mama, dada, dog, ball, ba-ba (Zander’s word for blankie), nana (for banana). He eats EVERYTHING and is getting so self-sufficient.

Doug is going to go part time at work. We’ve been talking about it for a while, and I think it’s a great idea. He had some cold feet today about it, so we talked about it, and we figured that we could at least try it for 3 months, and if we go broke, then he could ask to go back to full time. He is checking to make sure that is a possibility before committing to it. I think we can make a lot of changes to make the financial sacrifice manageable.

HEALTH AND FITNESS
What else? I did make it to my goal weight of 125 last Friday. This morning, I weighed in at 125.4. A gain of nearly half a pound, but I blame it on the weather. I didn’t get my daily walk/run in yesterday because of the rain/fog. And I totally felt like a slug because of it. I need to do my measurements, but I am feeling pretty good because I put my skinny pants on today and they fit!

I found a double jogging stroller for $55…a strap is broken and I called BabyTrend and they will replace the whole seat fabric for just $30. Also, Tiffany and I will start climbing together on Friday mornings starting next week. I’m excited about it. I hope that she likes enough to do it for a while. I could really use the extra climbing day per week.