Giant Bite

Oh yeah! I have a baby. In fact, he happened just 8 weeks today. That means that my focus needs to be there instead of trying to do all this other stuff. I didn't blog for a couple weeks because I have been so overwhelmed so rather than making blogging a chore I decided to blog again when I felt like I wanted to and had time to.

So much has happened in the last couple of weeks. Biggest news is my youngest brother's wife had her baby!!! YAY! It was weird looking at her and holding her because she was so tiny. 7 pounds 2 ounces. I know in the whole grand scheme of things that is normal but when you think about it my JD was never that small (at least outside of me) since he was born at 9 pounds 6 ounces. Baby girl seemed so fragile. I was terrified holding her though I absolutely LOVE it!

I also decided to wait until JD gets more use to the world before I try to really get a regular workout program in. That means that Body for Life is out. I may revisit something come the new year but then again I may not. I wasn't at all successful with last year's resolutions so I don't know. I need to really think and plan everything.

I have been somewhat torn in trying to figure out where I wanted this blog to go. I'm doing more and more DIY kind of projects but it didn't feel like it fit on this blog. I want to write about cooking and other random fact I have come across but I want it to be more like a reference sight rather than a personal journal. I came up with and bought the URL I am going to use. The Domesticated Kat. Isn't that awesome?! I am only going to post once or twice a week on it and will keep it to facts, recipes or projects. Things like making jam, redoing the dresser or random things I learned about. For example, what REALLY happens to orange juice or what cellulose, an ingredient that is in a lot of our food, is.

Gross, right? You may not have ever known that if I didn't tell you. Maybe you didn't want to know but now that you do you may want to make some diet changes, huh? I know I sure do. Orange juice is out unless I juice them myself. There is no way I want to drink some year old orange juice that had a flavor pack added to it so the taste, which is lost in the storing process, is added back in. I'm good with water thanks.

My point is I want to keep those kinds of posts somewhat separate. I'm also going to have a cute little store that sells homemade products and a whole section on things like jam and homemade BBQ sauce. I'm finding myself doing more and more "from scratch" items that I really think people would benefit from but it is all hidden in the pages of this blog. I think they deserve their own area, don't you?

Another thing that has been stressing me out is JD's sleeping or lack thereof. I was stressing myself out because he sleeps through the night but only when he is sleeping with me. Lots of things I have read talk about how that spoils them but it is the only way he gets good sleep in. Good sleep for him means good sleep for me. He also rarely naps during the day. I've tried so many things but he just won't do it. I thought I was doing something wrong until I found a website with a bunch of women whose babies don't sleep a whole lot. Last night I finally embraced my baby as an individual and am going to stop trying to fit my star shaped baby into a square hole. That took a bunch of stress off of me. I needed that. Badly. Speaking of JD I can hear him crying upstairs. Mommy to the rescue. Night!