So I have decided to start wearing Shane! For those of you that do not know what it is.. it is wearing your baby! haha. In a sling.. wrap.. etc. Most countries around the world is it quite popular. In some it is a must. America.. of course is slacking. Just like in breastfeeding. Which I will get into later on how I am doing. (Not good). After searching the internet for an entire week.. I decided to make my own baby sling. A ring sling. I bought the fabric and ordered the rings from the internet. It took me about an hr or so to figure out how to thread the damn rings. But I just kept getting more and more frustrated.. it was just too much fabric? I thought.. maybe I should sew it? I looked into buying a machine.. wayyy to much money. So, I asked Kathy. A lady that I work with. She agreed easily and I went to her house on Saturday morning. I emailed her a pattern that I wanted to follow.. but after trying to figure it out for an hour.. we decided to just hem it and sew the ring on. I much say it is MUCH easier now to use. I still do not have it down completely! But, it is a start. The few times I have worn Shane around the house I loved it. On my birth group forum I found a baby wearing message board and from there I was able to locate an Orlando facebook group for baby wearing. Needless to say I joined and tomorrow is our first meeting. I am excited and nervous. I dont really know anything about baby wearing. But all the moms seem SO nice. I have a feeling I am going to learn a lot tomorrow and make some new friends. I invited Amy (a mom i met off BBC) to come. Im not sure if she is going to make it or not. I am going to bring some of the lactation cookies Dana and I made yesterday.
Speaking of the cookies. They didnt turn out quite like I thought they would. The reason I made them is because I was paying $9 for a dozen of cookies. They worked but they were way to much money. I just cant afford $18 a week for cookies. However, I ran out of cookies and slowly I am running out of my supply. It is horrible. I feel empty all the time. =( Dana and I went to the whole foods store and got what I needed. The first mistake.. we didnt have enough vanilla extract.. so we used some almond extract.. which is strong. Now, the cookies are not horrible. They would just be better without the extract. The first batch has chocolate chips in it and the second batch we added peanut-butter chips to the chocolate ones. Both were good.. the second the best. Lastly we added some chocolate/caramel chips. Gross!! Even Billy hated them. So I threw them out.
I got paid last week.. ugh.. I had enough to pay my car payment.. and after buying some groceries I have 7 bucks left. I wish I had some money left over from what I saved up. But the bills ate it so fast. If my milk dries up.. I dont know what we will do for formula. Im not going to worry about that though. I am going to start doing some more grooms per day at work and hopefully that will give me an extra few hundred per paycheck and some tips. It doesnt help though when I have clients no call no show. I wish my boss would let me charge a fee. My lease is up in July. Hopefully I will be able to buy my car for a lot cheaper than what i am paying now. That will help a lot!
Shane is healthy though so that is all that is important. However we are having a bug problem at the apartment and every morning he wakes up with more bug bites. Tonight I am going to sleep him in his rocker in the room to see if that helps. I dont know if it is fleas (which I found on the pets and treated them) or mosquitoes. They are REALLY bad right now and swarming outside the front door. We are going to get a bug zapper.. if we can find one that doesnt plug in.
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