Old Friends
If you're ever bored, go to the New Seasons on Division. My mom and I were there last night and we ran into three old friends. The most exciting for me was one of my closest friends from high school. We had lost touch about a year after I moved to Portland from Bend. I have been thinking about her a lot lately and was even going to call my ex high school sweetheart to see if he knew how to get a hold of her. Lo and behold, she, her husband and their two girls moved to Portland a year ago. Her husband is a renowned body piercer and they opened their second shop, Nomad, on Division - the first shop being in Bend. I was so shocked and elated to see her last night. She just had their third child, a boy, two weeks ago. Not only am I happy to reconnect with her because she was a good friend, but because she has children. I am the only one out of my group of friends to have a baby, and, bless their hearts, they try but they just don't understand how much a baby changes your way of being and how you spend your time (of course, I didn't either until I experienced it). My best friend and my godchildren just moved to Carlsbad, CA, which has been hard for me. But, now I have a new connection with an old friend to look forward to.
It got pretty rough with the baby for awhile there. He was very colicky and I have completely changed my diet. No dairy, no gluten, no soy and no leafy green veggies. It's a tough diet (I never realized how much I liked salads until I couldn't eat them), but he's doing much better. He still gets pretty fussy around 6 or 7 in the evening, but it's bearable because we know it will only last for an hour or two. The other challenge that we've been having is that he only recently grew to abhor his car seat. So, nearly every time we go somewhere he screams inconsolably until we get to where we're going or we stop and take him out and walk him around or I try to feed him. It makes going anywhere quite the experience. We went to the coast for Mother's Day and only had to stop once on the way there, but coming back was awful. His screams are like nails on a chalkboard. And it breaks my heart to hear and see him in so much distress. We're meeting my dad at Government Camp this weekend and both Neil and I are dreading the drive.
I can say, though, that no matter how fussy the baby gets or how much he screams, when he smiles at me it erases all frustrations. His smile is the best thing in the world to me.
Things are look up.
Love,
Aislinn
It got pretty rough with the baby for awhile there. He was very colicky and I have completely changed my diet. No dairy, no gluten, no soy and no leafy green veggies. It's a tough diet (I never realized how much I liked salads until I couldn't eat them), but he's doing much better. He still gets pretty fussy around 6 or 7 in the evening, but it's bearable because we know it will only last for an hour or two. The other challenge that we've been having is that he only recently grew to abhor his car seat. So, nearly every time we go somewhere he screams inconsolably until we get to where we're going or we stop and take him out and walk him around or I try to feed him. It makes going anywhere quite the experience. We went to the coast for Mother's Day and only had to stop once on the way there, but coming back was awful. His screams are like nails on a chalkboard. And it breaks my heart to hear and see him in so much distress. We're meeting my dad at Government Camp this weekend and both Neil and I are dreading the drive.
I can say, though, that no matter how fussy the baby gets or how much he screams, when he smiles at me it erases all frustrations. His smile is the best thing in the world to me.
Things are look up.
Love,
Aislinn
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