We started the day with a poo of such epic proportions that it required a bath.

I'm on my second load of laundry. 

Other than that, I'm having an excellent day.  No sarcasm intended.  Really.  The boy drifted off to sleep early and I ate last night's leftovers for brunch.  I also took a very long, very hot shower.  The new house is a bit rickety and beach-house-y, but we have a very large hot water tank (I know we're having a drought, but I figure since I shower less than the average bear, not to mention less than the average I-get-other-people's-bodily-fluids-on-me-frequently person, I get to take long ones when I do take them).  My shower was longer than that run-on sentence.  Much longer and smelling of lavender.

I'm organizing our downstairs space.  I reconfigured my desk and decided I needed to test the new spatial relationship between the monitor and the keyboard.  Might as well natter on here for a bit.  I also listed some books on half.com.  What books sell quickly?  Books on having babies.  What I am not having any more of?  Babies.  Money in my pocket.  Money I'm going to spend on some expensive organic baby sunscreen since my boy is fair, fair, fair.  Despite his layers and full body coverage, he managed to get a wee sunburn the other day on his wrists of all places.  The coverage of the burn is wee, the actual burn itself?  Horrible.  Not wee at all.

Do not email me and chastise me for letting the baby burn.  I'm his mother and feel terrible enough.  Do not email me telling me that sunscreen causes cancer.  Until I have researched this topic ad nauseum, I'm going to slather him with the stuff.

Comments

[Ginger]

We fried, too.

Glad to hear you have that large water heater! You deserve that pampering, ya know.

[Dawn]

Please tell if you find a good one...we picked up some Burt's Bees the other day and I quote AJ "This stuff makes me look purple and gives me a headache" I kindly told him it was natural (not having tried it myself)....after a few hours wearing it at the WAP today, I am returning it tomorrow and begging for my children's forgiveness :)

[Dawn]

Ooookaaaayyyy..where the heck are my comments...I just left a juicy one about sunscreen and how I longed for a great recommendation. I posted it and poof, it has dissapeared...

[triple P]

I've heard good things about California Baby's sunscreen - however yesterday I tried Henry's, Jimbo's and Magical Child here in town and couldn't find it.

I'm going to check out one more source today. I was hoping Mienssence would have one, as they use food grade organic ingredients, but although they have lots of other lotions and potions, no sunscreen;(

[triple P]

duh...that's Miessence (a brand, not a store)...

[Deb]

One time I had a baby in a sling and he pretty much nursed the entire time we were at the park so that half his forehead and one cheek burned. I think he was about three months old at the time. I smeared aloe vera and breastmilk on the burn and by the next day it was much better.