Daphne, Jason and I rang in the New Year by sleeping. Hey, I like my sleep and will take advantage of any opportunity for it. I was lucky too – ordinarily, as we are working out of the swaddle, I am nursing Daphne to sleep. She may stay latched and flutter sucking for an hour. That’s an hour of increasingly difficult on the hips awkward side lying with half my belly cooler than the rest of me. But she not only only ate twice in the night, but I was able to detach and move! Simple pleasures, you know.

This will be an interesting year. By the end of it, she will probably be walking and talking and all the more opinionated. But it will be a fun journey to watch.

I had originally hoped to start yoga therapy teacher training, but being away for 10 days at a time twice a year for two years – not to mention the homework, assisting, and classes – is just not the best decision for us. It does mean that I wont be doing that until at least 2013, or possibly 2015 or later if we have two kids, but that’s ok. I’m good with “mom” being my job.