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Day in Snippets

Posted on May 08, 2008
I'm still very behind, I'm still very stressed about being very behind, and the papers still aren't done. I stayed at the library until 11 PM on Monday and Tuesday, but came home on Wednesday at 7 PM to find a little boy sitting in the tub where my little baby was supposed to be...

A Gift for Maya

Posted on May 06, 2008
Friday is Landon's last day in Maya's daycare. Despite predictions to the contrary, I didn't cry when I dropped him off on his first day, but I'm certain I'm going to cry on his last. Maya has truly become part of our family and we are all going to miss her very much...

SNAFU

Posted on May 05, 2008
This weekend was one big mess. Saturday was one of the worst days I've had in parenting (and I've had a few). Landon cried 95% of the time he was awake and only slept for one hour all day. After exhausting all his toys, I took a picture to see if the flash would distract him and make the tears stop for 5 seconds...

1 Day, 3 Eras

Posted on May 03, 2008
This post was supposed to be up on Friday, but Landon has not been cooperative. Now the congested little man is finally sleeping and I'm about to follow him as soon as I digest the giant bowl of pasta I finally got to eat (it had been mocking me from the counter for the last two hours I spent trying to put Landon down)...

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In Need of Baby Ambien

Posted on May 03, 2008
JP is in Austin for a boy's weekend. His best friend, who's originally from Israel, swam with JP at Texas, and now makes absurd amounts of money as a banker in Manhattan, is moving to China on Monday for some new business venture. This friend decided on Thursday that he wanted to see JP and his first American city before he left the U...

Free Man, kind of

Posted on May 01, 2008
Yesterday was JP's last day of work as an investment banking analyst. He is now just a student waiting for school to start in August- well, that and a dad, husband, and to-do list task master. This morning I left a long list of phone calls and other things that needed to be done for the move and he called me at 11:30 with the list completed...

Soliciting Opinions

Posted on April 30, 2008
Everything going on in my life right now has already been blogged about ad nauseum (like the fact that Landon reverted in his poor sleep habits last night, and JP and I didn't go to bed at a reasonable hour because The Daily Show spurred yet another Obama debate, so I'm really tired, and how I'm freaking out about my unstarted papers and how behind I am in my classes, and that the list of things to be done before our move in 30 days is a mile long, and yeah...

Day 289

Posted on April 29, 2008
When Landon was in the NICU I organized my pictures in folders by day: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc. It seemed like each day was so different and so full of milestones (first day off CPAP! first time we saw his eyes! first day without a feeding tube! first day without nasal cannula!) that I wanted to keep each one separate...

A House Divided... Stands Just Fine

Posted on April 28, 2008
I got a comment the other day asking me, "How can you and JP have such a good relationship with such differing political views?" and since I'd imagine most of you are tired of reading about my tiredness, I figured I'd respond. Yes, JP and I have different political views- on some issues, very different political views- but living together in peace, love, and general harmony is really not that hard...

And the Landon Taketh Away

Posted on April 26, 2008
We thought the crying it out was working. On Wednesday morning he was up at 4:00 and cried until 5:30 when he finally fell back asleep. On Thursday he woke up at 5:12 and cried until almost 6 when I rescued him. On Friday he woke up at 6 - victory! He's been going down between 7:45 and 8, so that was the 10 hours we were told by the pediatrician we all needed to be getting...

Follow-Ups and Non Sequiturs

Posted on April 25, 2008
I don't have anything comprehensive to write about today, so here's a few comments I wanted to add to past posts.One thing I meant to say in "Never Ready", is that the reason I started crying wasn't because of the horrible memories (they're bad, but they don't make me cry anymore), but rather because of all the warm, supportive comments from readers, most of whom I don't know...

Day in the Life of a Law School Mama

Posted on April 24, 2008
Several people have done posts like this, and my schedule isn?t as crazy as some of them, but it?s busy and someday when I?m retired and bored I can look back on it and think that a little boredom can be a lovely thing.The random day chosen is yesterday, Wednesday, April 23, 2008...

Never Ready

Posted on April 22, 2008
I really was about to go to bed after the post about Landon's clean bill of health, but for some reason I clicked on my stat counter and saw that several people had read through "The Nightmare" label today. I realized that I have never gone back and read any of them...

In the Clear

Posted on April 22, 2008
I wrote this draft earlier, but then the day got insane and I had to write a paper by 4pm reacting to a 67-page article I hadn't read as of 1pm. And then I had to attend a workshop about that article, which "explained" the various scientific climate change models in a very confusing fashion, and found out that I didn't understand the article at all and my reaction paper probably makes no sense...

How did I end up in this mess?

Posted on April 21, 2008
As I sat here at my library table, reading last week's assignments for environmental law, falling further behind in M&A and Legal Profession, and having still not started my two papers, I started thinking about how I ended up in law school at all...

Putting the Fun Back in My Weekend

Posted on April 20, 2008
I realized a few weeks ago that I no longer look forward to weekends. They bring less sleep because JP and I stay up later and still wake up at whatever ungodly hour Landon chooses; they bring more work because I use them to try to play catch up; and they bring stress because each weekend that comes is one less I have left to work on my papers and enjoy Chicago (which cannot be done at the same time)...

Sleeping Through an Earthquake

Posted on April 18, 2008
You know how when you're really tired you say things like, "I could sleep through a [insert natural disaster here]."? Well, apparently at 4:40 AM this morning, JP and I slept through an earthquake. The article says it was a moderate one at 5.2, but given what a light sleeper I am, I think I would have woken up had I been sleeping like a regular person instead of an unconscious, exhausted parent...

Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Posted on April 17, 2008
Last night I hostessed an Evita party with my friends. They came over right before Landon went to bed so they could applaud his new rolling skills, and then after he went down, we watched Evita, drank wine, ordered Chinese, and ate cookies. It was fabulous...

Affronted by 1Ls

Posted on April 16, 2008
I was sitting on the fifth floor of the library, trying to decipher a particularly long winded environmental law opinion, when a guy and girl started carrying on a long conversation, in loud voices, a few tables over. Because I am a wimp, I merely glared at them, willing daggers to shoot from my eyes and maim them enough to have to leave the library for medical attention...

9 Months

Posted on April 15, 2008
Dear big man (a.k.a. little man, handsome, cutie, and so many other names),Congratulations, you're 3/4 of a year old! I look at pictures of you like this: and it seems like so long ago that we took you home from the NICU. I think back on the days when you spent most of your time asleep and how your dad and I would get so excited every time you opened your eyes or moved your hands, and I can't believe how much you've changed...

Skeptical

Posted on April 14, 2008
I went to a lunch talk today featuring an alum who's in the Dept of Homeland Security. He spoke about the positives and perils of personal data collection and the Automated Targeting System at airports. Well, he spoke a lot more about the positives than the perils...

Calgon Take Me Away

Posted on April 13, 2008
I have just emerged from a very hot, very frothy bubble bath - the first bath I have taken without a splashing Landon since he came home from the NICU. While I was pregnant I reveled in my baths, I took one almost every day before bed. They were a time to relax, to reflect on my day, to dream about our beautiful baby who would sleep through the night at two months...

The World from 2'5"

Posted on April 11, 2008
Hi! It's the Landon. I'm writing in today because my mom is really tired and keeps muttering something about a paper -- ooh, PAPER! I love paper. It's so crinkly and noisy and delicious. Actually, I haven't gotten to eat very much of it because my mom always takes it out of my hand just before I chew it, but I'm sure it's very tasty...

Saved by Belugas

Posted on April 10, 2008
Last night was a bad one for the Lag Liv household (er, small apartment-hold). Landon was up for almost every single minute of it. Things started out well; he went down easily at 7:15. JP came home unusually early, and we classed it up a little with the previously mentioned meal of bread, cheese, meat, a delicious Argentinean Malbec, and sparkling conversation...

All I Need is Bread and Cheese

Posted on April 09, 2008
Just before bed at 10:30, I reflected back on what I ate today:Breakfast: plain bagel, plain cream cheeseLunch: 2 pieces cheese pizzaAfternoon snack: cottage cheese, cherry tomatoesDinner: French bread, some variety of semi-soft cheese, prosciutto, red wineDessert: apple pie, vanilla ice creamand I was horrified to realize that 3 cherry tomatoes constituted my entire fruit and veggie intake for the day...

No Regrets

Posted on April 07, 2008
Last night while JP and I were lying in bed, I started thinking about how tired we are, how hard this is, and what life was like pre-Landon. I thought about the friends we visited yesterday- how quiet and uncluttered their apartment was and how she was studying on the couch while her husband worked on the computer...

Cause for Optimism

Posted on April 04, 2008
I wrote the post below last night, but for some reason (probably exhaustion) forgot to publish it until right now. I was really freaked out after yesterday's phone call with the nurse urging us to come in as soon as possible to get the blood drawn for all of the endocrinologist's requested labs, so that we could get in as soon as possible to see the doctors (which now included a geneticist as well as the endocrinologist)...

The Posts That Aren't Being Written

Posted on April 03, 2008
Every day I think of things I would be writing about if my life and my blog weren't dominated by Landon and his medical and sleep adventures. Here are a few of the topics that would be, but aren't:~ Cottage Cheese. I discovered cottage cheese on Monday...

On the Verge

Posted on April 03, 2008
This morning, when I got up to get a cruelly cheerful Landon from his crib at 5:30, I had a single clear thought: I am about to have a breakdown- physical, emotional, both- I'm not sure. But I don't think my body is going to make it through Landon's first year of life unscathed...

Saying A Lot and Nothing At All

Posted on April 01, 2008
Like back in the NICU days, below is a reprinted email I just sent out to my family updating them on Landon. It says a lot and very little- basically we still have no idea what we are reacting to, so we have very little reaction at all.In other news my first day of class went well and I wish that my life was uneventful enough to write a post solely about how proud I was that I raised my hand and correctly answered several question in M&A...

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