Breastfeeding Ellie at night is our special time. In the beginning, I would turn the lights on just bright enough to see her face and sing to her and tell her stories. That lasted for about 10 days and then I re-discovered Hulu.
At first I stuck with pretty light-hearted fare: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and some Home and Garden Television. And then I discovered “Intervention“. Enough of this milky maternal night-time business: what I need at 3am while breastfeeding my newborn daughter is a hard-hitting documentary about addiction. “Intervention” is, obviously, addictive. I can’t get enough of seeing how people spiral into addiction and how treatment does and does not work.
So that’s how I’m spending my nights these days.
Tonight I’m anticipating a sleepless night as I’m nervous about driving Ellie to Toronto tomorrow. We have her 1-month check-up in the morning and then we’re heading out. We’ll be in Toronto for a couple of days and then we’re heading to the Cottage for a full week and then back to Toronto. I’m so excited for the trip but am uncertain how well Ellie will tolerate all the driving. Time will tell. The other nervous-making thing has been packing for the trip. It’s hard to anticipate what, exactly, we need for 2 weeks away from home. I erred on the side of bringing everything and the Subaru’s trunk looks like we’re emigrating.
New Post // Jul 2, 2009 at 2:44 PM
[...] We are in Toronto after a very succesful 9.5 hours in the car with Ellie. She slept more or less the entire time. Updates will be sparse for the next few days as we head into cottage country outside of Kingston where we’ll have (gasp!) no internet access (it feels like detoxing in rehab…or so I gather after watching Em’s new favorite show). [...]