Yes yes yes!! Here we are, I am so excited!
Congrats J on STTN! Now, send some of that over all our ways!
Actually, our night was best it has been in awhile, only one brief NW to feed between 7-6:20. I think I'm going to start pushing that feed closer and closer to the morning and in the next week eliminate it altogether, and in theory Tristan should start sleeping through. He's definitely been sleeping much better though, that's for sure!
About my mom, it is a very long story and the roots of how I feel about her start even as a child. She thinks I'm just this mean, horrible daughter who's never been supportive and all she's done is tried her best, but I don't feel that way at all. I don't remember the good things about her, only the negative. She has always been depressed and very very selfish. She was unhappy being married to by dad very early on I know, but failed to do anything about it and so harboured all this resentment towards him for living his life when she was content to just sit and home sulking and feeling sorry for herself. When he finally gave up on the marriage, she criticized him for moving on when all along it was her who said she wanted out. After she left, he paid for her condo, made sure she was all set to go, no debts, new start, etc. Well, she gambled everything, remortgaged her place, gambled all that away and when she was out of money went after my dad, took him to court claiming he owed her all this money. It was a very stressful time. Both of them kept pulling me and my brother in opposite directions, trying to get us to testify that the other was a bad parent. No one was right, everybody lost.
Well, my dad and myself have done the best to move on, learn from our mistakes and look to the future. My brother obviously still has many demons, because he was younger than me I think a lot of his childhood and teenage years got ignored when my parents dove headfirst into their own problems, and he was left to his own devices, never really having any proper role models and now the consequences are apparent. But my mom lives in the past, is continually pointing fingers, name calling and playing the victim, when ultimately she was the biggest culprit.
Oh, sorry to go on again!
Our day is going ok so far, just put Tristan down for his am nap so we'll see how it goes. Saturdays are tricky because DH is here kinda putting a kink in the routine.
He's not doing well with his purees again, but still enjoying finger foods. I'm sure it's just a phase, at least I hope so!
So good to be back!
