Freya decided not to nap today. I guess that’s why she went to sleep at 8:15 tonight, much earlier than usual for our little night-owl. Today I nursed her to sleep at 12:15, but she woke up five minutes later and I spent the next 45 minutes trying to get her back to sleep, to no avail. Yes, tears were shed. Until you are a parent you don’t know the utter frustration of trying to rock a heavy baby to sleep for a half-hour. Ouch my shoulder. Anyway.

So by three I had basically given up, in spite of saying to my daughter a couple hours earlier “I will not give up!” Ha. Instead we just hung out and listened to music and I gave her various snacks in her high chair while I cleaned up the kitchen and started dinner. At around 6:00, the whole family went outside in the blue twilight to look at the moon, which had risen above the trees and was hanging there in the sky like a spotlight, occasionally veiled by clouds. We went to the soccer field across the road. Freya looked up, exclaiming “Muhhh!!!” and pointing and waving. A flock of ducks circled above the field, quacking.

Back home, I made dinner: stuffed bell peppers and green salad. Baby didn’t seem that tired. We all watched Jeopardy! after eating. Finally, I nursed Freya at 8:00 and she was out fairly quickly. And here I am at my desk twenty minutes later, enjoying a bowl of homemade ice cream, and working on the music restoration project. If only every night was like this. But I know she will wake up in an hour or so and I’ll bring her the mama’s milk that sends her back to sleepytown.

Oh yeah. Here’s something insane. So I’ve been selling some of my old fancy accessories lately. I just sold two of my Louis Vuitton patent leather coin purses. I used the earnings to buy a new 32GB iPod touch today. And still had money left over. A coin purse turned into a sleek new iPod. That is bananas. Also, wow those things really hold on to their value. Unlike, say, iPods… my very first iPod is probably worth about $5. That’s one dollar per gigabyte!