Snow

We got a foot of snow yesterday, a foot! It’s the middle of April! I had to work. The drive to work was wet, with the temp being 31, just don’t know if it’s going to be slippery at all. It was fine. 6 hours later to come home, yipes. I drove 40 the whole way (except thru the 30mph part). One thing nice about this time of year, it’s still light out at 6pm. Driving in snowy conditions in daylight is way better than in the dark. The stretch closest to home was awful. It’s just about 2 miles, straight. I don’t think they plowed once. Right away there was a car off to the side. After that I saw 3 different spots where the tire tracks look like someone slid but was able to come back. It’s farm field on both sides, which is good, no ditch. But when it’s windy, it just blows. The plow finally came and did our street at midnight on the nose. I was glad I didn’t have to work today. I wouldn’t have been able to get out. We wouldn’t have wanted to shovel after midnight either.

The other day I called my Dr’s line to ask for a renew of my birth control. I needed it switched to a reg brand since I’ll be done breastfeeding by the time this pack is up. I was going back to the brand I used to be on. I’ve also got a few messages saying I needed a yearly physical, which I didn’t think I was due til August/July, I have 3 months left of pills left of the Rx. I asked about that too. I was trying to give myself time in case I had to do that now, vs OMG I need the pills NOW. I never heard back. I called today and someone actually answered. She said the Rx is approved and has been at Target for 3 days now. HTH would I know that? I’m not going to waste a trip to Target to find no Rx. She said physical anytime, but need to to renew the Rx after the 3 months. So I was right.

So yeah, I’m trying to quit breastfeeding. I’m SO ready but at the same time I feel kind of guilty. All this time, watching the time or how I feel, NOT wanting to hurt my supply. Now I’m trying to hurt it. I want to be done by the time I start the new pills, since then it’s not safe for the milk. I am very proud of myself, 9 months! I never thought I was going to BF to begin with. I come from a family that more does formula. Well feeding isn’t really discussed. Noone cares what you do. Like my cousin with the May baby, I have no idea if she’s FF or BF. The June baby, I know she was BF for 6 months. We talked about it some. She did pump only. OMG. I did pump only for the last 6 weeks, not fun. Also it’s very hard to do when Roger isn’t here. He’s been here most of the time, which was helpful. Especially with crawling. Pumping and all of a sudden he’s where he shouldn’t be. It’s hard. If I wasn’t emotionally ready to give it up, I wouldn’t. I think I did it right. Switching to pump only awhile ago. He had no problems not feeding from me. I didn’t know if there would be. I wanted to make sure he was done with me and fine being bottle only before I quit.

Naps have been better. It’s nicer to have him sleep in his room. I am kind of jealous of people that have bedrooms upstairs and living room/kitchen on main level. We have the bedrooms, living room, kitchen on the same level. We have a living room downstairs, we don’t use much. When he’s sleeping, seems we gotta be quiet.

I really should be using this time to finish is darkening curtains. I bought the fabric about a month ago now. I did one side the other night. Roger was laughing at me at my pace. It’s too hard to do it with Bruce around. I know, at this pace, he’ll be 10 by the time I finish. I’m just folding the fabric over a little and sewing, so it’s seamed. That’s 4 seams on 2 curtains. Not that difficult. I should get off here and at least get one seam done.