I'm still here

It's been a rough few weeks, but I've almost recovered. Henry's gotten into the habit of having a few 2-3 oz snacks during the day, and then bellying up to me for the all-night buffet. I guess it's good that I don't have to stress about pumping a ton of milk for him, but the sleep deprivation reached epic proportions in the last couple of weeks.

I got into that horrible trap of failing to keep up with everything, and then trying to prioritize and cut myself some slack, and then realizing that the things I put off really had to be done to meet basic levels of sanitation. And so I found my self scrubbing the shower at 6:30 AM because I couldn't stand the thought of exposing an overnight guest (asleep in the next room) to three months of shower funk. I shouldn't have been surprised when the tiredness and sinus headaches I attempted to ignore earlier in the week morphed into a raging ear infection. The good news is that while both ears were infected, only one eardrum burst. Yay.

I think I'm back on track now, thanks to lots of help from family and friends. I even had some baby-free time to work on the dress for Ben's wedding over the weekend. It's a frankenstein dress, with the top from the Cloud Dress (V2960) attached to a flared eight gore skirt with some nifty seaming that makes a kind of inverted pleat effect (V7910-A). There will be pictures of an actual sewing project soon!