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Today is James’ first day back to work since Maddie was born and my first day alone with the little munchkin. It is only 11:00am and so many things have happened!!

It all started last night when it was time for bed. In the past, James has been sleeping closer to the travel crib we keep in our room and will wake up at night to change her diaper and give her to me for the feedings. We decided to switch sides of the bed last night so that I would be the only one getting up at night. I suppose it makes sense that James be relatively rested for work! I started feeding Maddie at about 11:00pm last night, and she decided that about 5 minutes into the feeding she would take a break. I decided that while she was on her break that I would burp her. No luck… the only thing that came out was her dinner. Apparently her break wasn’t over yet, so I change her diaper. I used James’ little trick of blowing on her while changing the diaper. According to him, this will make her pee if she has to go… that way she doesn’t pee while you have the diaper off, and doesn’t pee as soon as you put the new one on. So that is what I did… I was blowing on her. I guess she didn’t have to pee! Oh but wait… as soon as I get the new diaper under her little bum, she pees!!!! Of course! So now everything is wet since I didn’t have the diaper closed!

Ok… so now that she is fully awake since I wiped her down with cold wipes… time to finish the feeding. That lasted about 2 minutes. Fine… she wasn’t that hungry… time to swaddle her and put her to bed! I had the blankets all laid out and she was half way swaddled, when the sound of a car backfiring came out of her little bottom. And back on the changing table she went. I knew at this point that it was just going to be one of those nights.

Surprisingly, the rest of the night went fairly well. I woke up around 4:00am for the next feeding and she did much better. The only problem this time is that she decided to make all sorts of noise when placed back in her crib. I can’t say I slept peacefully… or at all… the rest of the night. I finally gave up on attempting to sleep and got out of bed at 8:00am.

Before the day got too hot, I wanted to go out on a little walk around the neighborhood while pushing the stroller. I went out to the van to get the stroller out, but my remote control alarm thing was not working. I couldn’t unlock the doors or turn the alarm off! I was afraid to use the key to open the door for fear that the alarm would sound. I started searching through the house for the spare remote, but realized that James had it. I then went and opened the car door anyway, only to realize that it was the car battery that was dead… not my remote!!! This means that I am stuck here at the house all day with no way of leaving. Since the battery was dead, there was no way the alarm was going to go off. At least I was able to get the stroller out and go for a little walk! Don’t worry James… I didn’t go far. Just to the top of the hill and back again… about 30 minutes. And I got to listen to my iPod too! I had to call James at work to ask him questions about how to charge that battery on it and how to use iTunes. Pathetic… I am married to a geek and know almost nothing when it comes to techy stuff…

Now that I am home during the day and James is working, I feel this obligation to clean the house and get projects done. Problem is that I am tired and James doesn’t want me to do too much before my 6 weeks of recovery time is up. For those who know me, I tend to always have a list of things that need to get done. I am not known to be patient, and therefore I want the items on my list checked off as soon as possible. The next big task on my list is to redo the loft in our house so that it is more functional and looks nice. It is a huge task… one I can’t do alone due to heavy lifting and computer stuff/hookups I know nothing about.

For those of you wondering if James will ever do a show again, I am hoping the answer is “yes”. He would love to do more shows with CCT, but the commute for rehearsals and the show itself is REALLY far from where we live. I think it takes almost a good hour without traffic to get there. Then you throw the work commute on top of that, and it starts to take its toll. I think James wishes we lived a lot further south / east so that he could be more involved with CCT. Even though it was his idea to move to north county (something I had been wanting to do for quite sometime) I do feel guilty about his commute and the distance he lives from most of his friends. Yes, there is Moonlight theater up this way, and he is looking into doing shows with them, but I think CCT will always be “home” to him… it is his second family. I think that in order for him to do another CCT show, it would have to be a REALLY good show that he just couldn’t refuse. We’ll see….