sign me up
So, still no broadband. I’m sure when it does finally arrive I will glut out on surfing and uploading photos and have the equivalent of a sugar-binge headache from all the data-transfer going on.
We spent most of last weekend either at Ikea, driving to or from Ikea or assembling Ikea flat-pack furniture. Our house is now full of empty cardboard boxes and some more furniture, which makes it feel more like home. Tom and I noticed a strange phenomenon when we moved in here – furniture that looked great in our last house just didn’t work at all in our new one, like our really bright and colourful tablecloth that went on our kitchen table. Our new kitchen is too small for the table, the table is too small for the new dining room and the tablecloth just doesn’t work at all.
We’re also in the phase of madly joining things – food co-op, car co-op, family centre, library, yoga studio. When I arrived at my first yoga class on saturday morning I discovered that I am their first and only satyananda student, and they are the first and only yoga studio to offer a satyananda class in vancouver. So it sounds like I need to recruit some friends to come with me so that they can stay in business and I can keep going to my favourite kind of yoga. I signed up to take a baby signing workshop that starts next week, and I have bought a didymos which makes me part of another kind of group, a group of people called “babywearers”. We’re still perfecting the art of wrapping, but it’s pretty groovy and way more comfortable than the Bjorn we were using before.
I am slowly, slowly getting a hang of the rhythm of the stay at home mom lifestyle. It’s all about catching the right activity for the moment, and making the most of the moments you get. That and not getting too hung up on having to leave things half-finished. It’s surprisingly hard to get laundry done, but overall we’re doing ok. Bea is sleeping great. I’m almost afraid to say it in case I jinx it, but she falls asleep between 6-9pm every night and sleeps through to about 1:30, then sleeps again to 4 and is up at 7. I’m having a lot of doubts about starting a course again in January though. If the house is sorted and everything is unpacked by then, then I might be able to manage it. But what if it’s not? And will I use up all my time on the course and not have any downtime? Will that make me a more unpleasant mom? Is it worth it? Is now the right time, or should I wait another few months, another few years? What will I get from doing a course now that I won’t get if I wait? I know nobody can answer these questions but me, but somehow writing them down helps me get some perspective.
One thing I would like to have more time to do is writing. If I actually wrote down every idea that I had for a post here I’d have a much more interesting blog. I’ve totally stopped writing elsewhere as well – my paper journal hasn’t had an entry for months and months, and I have to admit that I’m a little intimidated by the writing and researching involved in a course. Will I have the time and mental energy required? Maybe writing more in general would help knock off some of the rust that has accumulated and get those gears running at my regular speed again.
