Snowbound Herpetologist

I am posting this a little late because my mom and brother were in town for the last week while husband was away at a conference.  Man, I am SO GRATEFUL that they came, their help was absolutely amazing!!!!  It was a whirlwind of baby wrangling, adventurous cooking, and attempting to adult (i.e., do the one million annoying little home maintenance projects that have been languishing but were desperately needed).  We only got about half of them done...but I suppose that half is way better than where we were before!  One of our chores was to get Maya's room/bed situation worked out to officially move Annika in with her.  I will post more about this, with cute photos, once the finishing touches are complete (although there's a teaser photo in today's post below). Annika had her four month well baby check on Monday, and she continues to grow (nearly) exponentially - 17lbs 12oz and 26.25 inches!  I keep asking the pediatrician if I should change how much I'm ...

Hello, internet world - I am marginally functional.  I thought having daycare three mornings a week would free up *gobs* of time for me to feel awesome, get in shape, and be uber productive at work. I am giggling at myself right now :) *If* I win the race out of the door in the morning and get everyone to school by like 8:30, I can get settled in a place to do work (either home or office) by about 9am.  I can work until 10am, at which point I have to pump, at that takes about 30 min and requires 100% concentration on my boobs or nothing comes out.  Then, I can do more work for about an hour, at which point I need to scarf down a lunch so I don't have to try to eat while I have the baby, because mostly I drop salad on her head when I try to do that.  Then comes the run to go pick her up by absolutely no later than 12:30pm. All that work for 2 (interrupted) hours of science?  Which often turns into at least one hour of dealing with email?  And if I want...