Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Five Favorites


1.  Bar Rescue on Spike Channel- This show makes me either a) feel more than competent to own a bar compared to the owners featured or b) want to go out and enjoy some nightlife.  It's kind of like Restaurant Impossible on the Food Network and Clean House on Style. I think these shows appeal to me because they go from disorganization to order...the one main thing I long for in many aspects of my own life.



2.  Co-Sleeping- With my first two kids eventually we co-slept then they transitioned to cribs just fine.  With baby number three I didn't even pretend to listen to those hospital nurses, Dr. Sears would be proud.  I have felt just as rested as I did before her arrival.  I don't really consider myself an advocate for attachment parenting but as every mother finds her own way I realized I fit into this description.  When people ask me how we're making it through the nights I shrug because I don't really skip a beat, it's a non issue.  Now we're at the point to start transitioning.  Rita starts in the bassinet and hours later ends up in bed with me but the hours in between are getting longer.



3.  Chicago Restaurants- We went to the city for a baby shower and made plans for meals you can't get in Springfield.  There was the number 2 best steak I've ever had at Wildfire Grill (number 1 was at The Palm also in Chicago years back), Seafood you can't find at Bob Chin's Crabhouse (I had Asian Basa), the very popular Gene and Jude's hot dogs (it's literally the only thing on the menu and the line is out the door), and finally the serbian Cafe Beograd (we were the only non-european, English as a first language people in there, and it was AWESOME!). 



4.  Iced Coffee- Can I say coffee again?  It's different because this week I specifically mean iced. 


5.  All things Baby- This week has been especially baby centered with my mom gone to see my new nephew P. in California, going to a baby shower and enjoying the company of 2 of my former roommates who will have sweet newborns next month, my own darling girl who seems to have hit a growth spurt, and to Hallie who hosts five favoties and just had a boy! Babies are my favorite!