Monday, July 21, 2014

Break Pads

I had a nice, relaxing weekend! On Friday night Scott and I invited some friends over to hang out on our back porch and chill. It was fun! Just within the last few weeks I finally feel like I can enjoy my weekends without the anxiety of wondering what the middle of my night will be like. Before Campbell started sleeping all night, I didn't have much interest in doing anything. I knew I would be waking up in the middle of the night and the exhaustion just wasn't worth it to me. I missed hanging with my friends so much but I wanted to be in bed early so I wouldn't feel like a zombie the next day. Now that my little guy is sleeping all night, I feel comfortable staying up late to hang out with friends or watch a movie with Scott.
While it's easy to have people come over to our house now, it's not so easy going to others houses. I want to be able to go to my friends homes to have dinner and hang out but it always messes with Campbell's little routine. I don't want to hire a babysitter because 1.) I don't know anyone that could babysit for me , 2.) I don't want to pay for it and 3.) I probably wouldn't be able to relax and enjoy myself anyway because I would be worried about my little peanut the entire time. How do you do stuff with friends on the weekend unless it's at your house? Now there's a thinker....
Since the weather has been so amazing, I've been taking Campbell for long walks around the neighborhood. We've both enjoyed it so much! However, I experienced trauma that will most likely stick with me forever while we were on our walk one day. After a lovely long stroll, I headed up my (extremely flat) driveway, punched in the code on my garage keypad, turned around and saw my stroller was flying down my driveway....while my precious baby was still in it! Usain Bolt had nothing on me. I went from 0-120 mph in .12 seconds. I seriously could have won a gold medal in the Olympic 'Mad Dash To Save Your Baby While Flying Down The Driveway In The Stroller' if there was such an event. Note to self: always use stroller breaks even on a flat surface. Campbell wasn't even a tiny bit fazed. He thought his Momma was behind him all along and out of nowhere decided to go super fast. Lord have mercy that nearly gave me a heart attack. Hopefully none of my neighbors witnessed that happening.

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  1. One of the perks to being in the Kappa Alumnae Association here in Austin is access to the babysitter list of active girls at UT (it lists their availability as well as their previous childcare experience)...don't know if they do that in NW Arkansas but it's certainly worth looking into!

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    1. That's a great idea! I remember a lot of the girls did babysitting when I was in the house. I'll have to look into it!

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  2. Ok. I know that was traumatic and scared the pee out of you (it would have me). But OMG I just laughed out loud. The whole vision of you turning around and noticing him flying down the driveway and then running after him just cracks me up!!

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    1. Oh no worries. Scott and I laugh about it--a lot. Who knew you needed to lock the breaks on that bad boy on a flat road? Scott says I'm no longer allowed to take him for a walk without his supervision.

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  3. Oh that is funny and scary. Getting a sitter is hard even now. We had a great one and she moved :-( I don't know what to do anymore.

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    1. If I ever find one I'll give you her info!

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  4. I laughed really hard...only because the exact same thing happened to me...twins in a double stroller "flying" down our driveway...and our neighbors were watching!!

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    1. Nearly gave you a heart attack didn't it! And he just had no idea...was just sitting there like everything was completely normal! I laugh now but my goodness that scared me!!!

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