More mundane updates

The one event of the week that I had to announce outside of my lengthy treatise on my own self below, was that Lucy is learning to sleep better. I had a horrible week of no sleep because she's been sick with a cough and up many times at night. She nursed and then fussed and didn't want to nurse but didn't want to go be rocked or held so I finally just had to put her in her bed, as she was getting all mad and scratching and hitting. She was mad for a while, but I really could see nothing I could do and I was out of my mind with exhaustion.

She was getting in the habit of fussing after nursing, nothing worked to make her feel better. I just decided when I needed her to sleep I'd put her in bed. Now, it's the end of the week, although I've had to get up a lot to give her medicine and help her with a bad cough, she is going to sleep both at night and at naps with very little or no fuss--I just put her in bed. The benefit of waiting 21 months I guess is they figure out faster that it's easier just to go to sleep.

She actually went over to her bed tonight, looking longingly at it, before we realized she was tired and wanted to be put down.

So, although I have no rest to show for this wonderful blessing, I am very excited of the prospects once she is well. The only problem is she does that infant thing of waking up at 5-6 a.m. and fussing, and would probably go back to sleep in five minutes if left alone, but at that time of day, everyone would wake up if I let her fuss--none of the heavy sleeping I could count on at 3 a.m. Can't wait until we have more space in the new place!

David has been a saint, letting me sleep until 9:30 on Saturday, and getting a great nap today. He is the crabbiest, most wonderful man in the world.

Lastly, I've really been excited about the new place because I want to get serious with the home food production thing vis a vis Animal Vegetable Miracle. I don't think this is just my silly hippie self, but that I'm being led to make this change. Then I came across this article in the NY Times about the increasing price of food (and how they expect it to continue to rise quickly due to a falling dollar, demand, crop failure, raising food for gas--as in ethanol, and oil prices). The article gives you the feeling we really will start to see a time where we have to eat less for economic reasons, not just because we want to look skinny.

It's becoming more obvious that those who follow the prophet's guidance to pay of their mortgage, keep out of debt, have a savings and plant a garden will stave off the future problems as our economy pays the price of sustained unsustainable practices. The problem is our economy relies heavily on consumer spending and borrowing, and more and more consumers are out of cash and credit. Without a HUGE cash bailout to families (no $1200 will cut it), their consumers will have their hands tied. I think the corporations forget that the employees they are laying off and their consumers are the same people.

I read some really interesting scriptures about this today, but I'll save those rants for my scripture blog, which I've been woefully neglecting.