8/31/18

1. AM arriving a little early this morning.
2. Pulling the trigger on a few bigger ticket items after waiting for Labor Day weekend sales.
3. Having defrosted chicken en adobo to give Nico for protein.
4. Knitting during a training to prevent distraction.
5. Nico falling asleep while nursing to get the earlier bedtime after missing the second nap.
6. Watching some TV before going to bed.

A year ago today.

8/30/18

1. Nico playing by himself for a really long stretch in the morning.
2. Nico digging in to the scrambled eggs with basil.
3. Working on my shawl while watching the lightning talks.
4. Organizing the childcare schedule for the next couple weeks.
5. Finally getting the life insurance research done.
6. Dan and I hanging out Nico's room reading while he played.

A year ago today.

8/29/18

1. Taking the day off from work.
2. Pretty quick to get eyebrows threaded at a salon really close by.
3. Finishing up at the DMV just in time to get home for Nico's lunch.
4. Recording a podcast episode going pretty smoothly.
5. Pinhole Press photo books arriving!
6. Getting a frittata and fried rice cooked up for the next few days.

A year ago today.

8/28/18

1. Being able to eat breakfast before going to keep Nico company.
2. Getting a workout done in the morning.
3. Remembering to marinate the ribs in the wet rub.
4. New nanny successfully getting Nico down for the first nap.
5. Getting in touch with the zoning office and getting useful info.
6. Making it to the end of the reverse shadowing on-call shift.

A year ago today.

8/27/18

1. Morning page not being a real incident.
2. Learning that it was a post-nap poop so I didn't need to feel guilty for having missed it.
3. Nico making up the sleep in the second nap.
4. Getting a load of laundry done.
5. Being able to set up a tour for another house in a similar area to the one yesterday and go for the drive.
6. Having bok choy to supplement the lurofan for dinner.

A year ago today.

8/26/18

1. Waking up feeling rested and reading articles in bed before Nico was up.
2. Having a quiet and productive morning to myself with Dan and Nico at mass.
3. Having a really nice visit from my mom.
4. Seeing a house with good potential for us.
5. Catching up with LW.
6. Being able to get in to the business center to print stuff out.

A year ago today.

8/25/18

1. Making it to the park in the morning.
2. Getting to do some research on mortgage pre-approvals while Nico took nap #1.
3. Realizing some other missing groceries before Dan went out again.
4. Getting to the Grounds for Sculpture in the afternoon.
5. Sheet pan chicken with chickpeas turning out really well.
6. Not feeling so tired at the end of the day to be able to fit in a bit of TV before going to sleep.

A year ago today.

8/24/18

1. Finishing off the rest of the fish for lunch.
2. No new support tickets coming in.
3. Getting most of the workout done before the end of CB's last day.
4. Taking a drive out to Newtown's downtown area.
5. Lovely summer evening weather.
6. Declining to get ice cream.

A year ago today.

8/23/18

1. Dan making lentils in the morning.
2. Finding a comfortable position on the daybed while watching the town hall.
3. Nico not seeming too out of sorts from the shots the day before.
4. Taking a break from his dinner seeming to help with the throwing of food onto the floor.
5. Catching up with AL.
6. Falling asleep pretty easily afterwards even with the late screen time.

A year ago today.

8/22/18

1. Dan taking Nico out to pick up groceries in the morning.
2. Putting away the remainder of my lunch when I didn't feel that hungry after getting back to it.
3. Getting to the doctor's early and being seen on time.
4. Nico recovering from the vaccines pretty well.
5. BS helping me with tickets.
6. Nico balancing standing for a brief moment and taking a step/falling towards me.

A year ago today.

8/21/18

1. Making a photobook for my grandma too.
2. Having fish with Swiss chard and rice for lunch.
3. Dan taking Nico out for errands in the evening.
4. Reaching out to friends to vent.
5. Dan cooking dinner and cleaning the kitchen afterwards.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

8/20/18

1. Sleeping better with the new U-shaped pillow.
2. Clearing out the fridge a bit.
3. Finishing lunch and watermelon between afternoon meetings.
4. Having uninterrupted time in the evening to keep working.
5. Coming up with a much better workflow for making a photobook.
6. Dan making pasta and meatballs for dinner.

A year ago today.

8/19/18

1. Finding Pinhole Press' software a lot better to use than Chatbooks'.
2. My mom babysitting Nico for a couple hours.
3. Getting a workout done.
4. Finding that Dan moved my laundry for me.
5. Dan making pasta and meatballs for dinner.
6. Going to bed early.

A year ago today.

8/18/18

1. Having a normal morning sleep-wise.
2. Reading and laughing from the Ugly Volvo's book, Welcome to the Club: 100 Parenting Milestones You Never Saw Coming.
3. KS and ES really getting into the Hungry Caterpillar theme with a special cake and balloons.
4. Birthday party going really well even with only using the common space and not the billiards room.
5. Also taking a nap during Nico's second nap.
6. Organizing the new and old toys.

A year ago today.

8/17/18

1. Being able to have an unhurried breakfast before going to hang out with Nico.
2. Getting a workout in in the morning.
3. Both grandmas coming to visit Nico for his birthday.
4. Figuring out where my SQL queries were going wrong.
5. Dan's meatball making being very quick.
6. Having enough leftovers to figure out dinner quickly.

A year ago today.

8/16/18

1. Great independent play time in the morning.
2. Figuring out the cause of the bug pretty quickly with fresh eyes.
3. Catching up with ND.
4. Running SQL queries to figure out the data that needs cleanup.
5. Finding one more regular episode of Jeopardy on the DVR before needing to resort to College Jeopardy.
6. Watching a couple more episodes of Mozart in the Jungle.

A year ago today.

8/15/18

1. Finishing Anna Kendrick's memoir.
2. Steadily working through different test cases and getting an understanding of how the different objects worked together.
3. Ribs falling apart.
4. Managing to clean up the kitchen while Nico played by himself.
5. Last episode of Tournament of Champions with some really great players.
6. Starting to watch Mozart in the Jungle.

A year ago today.

8/14/18

1. Getting notice of my talk being accepted!
2. Fresh tomato and avocado toast and corn working out well for lunch.
3. Getting BS' help figuring out what's going on with a domain.
4. Dan taking Nico for the early evening so I could get a workout in.
5. Finishing watching the Ballet Now documentary on Hulu.
6. Nico eventually settling himself back to sleep after a startled wakeup.

A year ago today.

8/13/18

1. Nico playing pretty well while I hung out in his room with him.
2. Making a cucumber salad with tomatoes to supplement the taco leftovers and sliced beef that my mom brought.
3. Pretty quick to deal with reading the Food Fights ebook.
4. Hanging out by the pond in the perfect evening temperature.
5. Frittata finishing up perfectly before the bath.
6. Doing IBCLC research for AB.

A year ago today.

8/12/18

1. Dan letting me go back to sleep for a couple hours in the morning.
2. Cutting each other some slack.
3. My mom picking up more kimchi for me from Costco when I realized I was running low.
4. Dan's mom playing with Nico while we had dinner.
5. Nico at least falling asleep early for the evening.
6. Cooking up the rest of the vegetables in the fridge.

A year ago today.

8/11/18

1. Making it to the Yardley Farmers Market on the opening hours side of things.
2. Successfully keeping Nico awake until we got home.
3. Getting a workout done during the nap.
4. Having an extra grits box to use for the milk bags we were delivering.
5. Visiting RC/AB again, this time with the pop-up playard to minimize destruction.
6. Dan's Hungarian egg noodles with chicken turning out really well.

A year ago today.

8/10/18

1. Back to a more normal schedule with Dan being home.
2. Having a broccoli rabe and pork sandwich for lunch.
3. Deciding to throw out most of the fries that came with the sandwich.
4. Finishing off the last of this week's watermelon.
5. Dan reminding me to get the ribs in the oven before it was too late in the afternoon.
6. Feeding Nico his dinner at his weaning table before we had dinner ourselves.

A year ago today.

8/9/18

1. Eating breakfast before CB's arrival.
2. Wearing my red polka dot Modcloth romper.
3. Fixing another error.
4. Getting started on finance review for the last month.
5. Dan getting home in time to settle in before bath/bedtime.
6. Stretching while watching Anne of Green Gables.

A year ago today.

8/8/18

1. Not feeling too tired once I was up for the day.
2. Solving another reported error.
3. Really good internal training by DM on using Splunk.
4. Going back to doing a workout thanks to CB's evening coverage.
5. CB staying a little late to give me some time to clean up the kitchen after Nico's dinner.
6. Only a minor amount of protesting when I left Nico's room for the night.

A year ago today.

8/7/18

1. Nico bearing with not starting the day until 7.
2. Being able to eat my breakfast even before CB started.
3. Diplomatically handling a work request.
4. Figuring out how to resolve another error on my own.
5. Visiting the Grounds for Sculpture with Nico and aunts.
6. Being able to make my frittata and take the trash out while the aunts supervised dinner.

A year ago today.

8/6/18

1. Nico sleeping through the night just fine despite the change in eating schedule yesterday.
2. Helping identify a regression.
3. Figuring out how to fix ELM's database issues.
4. KS helping in the evening.
5. Bedtime going pretty smoothly despite the later second nap.
6. Digging out the Anne of Green Gables DVDs to watch.

A year ago today.

8/5/18

1. Getting back to sleep pretty well, after needing to pump.
2. My sister and AG making us their signature breakfast sandwiches.
3. AG finding an empty classroom for me to get in a pump session before the pinning ceremony.
4. Being able to use the meditation room to pump.
5. Getting home without too much of a delay.
6. Great Costco watermelon to slake my thirst.

A year ago today.

8/4/18

1. Driver arriving early for my scheduled Lyft.
2. A fellow passenger grabbing my suitcase and passing it forward for me when it was in a bin behind where I was sitting.
3. AG cutting up watermelon for us.
4. Getting pedicures and barbecue for lunch with AG.
5. Getting a massage.
6. Playing arcade games with my sister.

A year ago today.

8/3/18

1. Doing a workout in the morning.
2. Packing up several boxes of returns for CB to send out for me.
3. Figuring out an error by myself. 
4. Slightly fixing Nico's haircut without any non-hair cuts.
5. Finding an itinerary that would still get me to Nashville.
6. Dan's mom agreeing to coming early to be a backup plan. 

A year ago today.

8/2/18

1. Wearing one of my new floral print Modcloth rompers.
2. Not getting into a car accident. 
3. Getting through Nico's first haircut. 
4. Getting home before first dinner was too late. 
5. Cutting up the rest of the watermelon.
6. Reading Spinning Silver. 

A year ago today.

8/1/18

1. Nico contentedly playing in his room by himself for almost an hour.
2. Getting a workout in in the morning.
3. Dan succeeding at finding the phone number so we could still go on an in-home daycare visit.
4. Getting back in time to dial in for the podcast recording.
5. Having some time to myself after pulling the ribs out to cool and prepping Nico's dinner.
6. Not staying up too late starting to read Spinning Silver.

A year ago today.