10/7/25
stuff I love about RV life: Baby is in my line of sight more often, I love I can drink my eye-fill of him more than when we were at the house and had to bring him to Granny’s during the day; love the idea that we’re not gonna have to endure a hard winter, but will be chasing the warm weather; love that our scenery changes frequently, and that it seems like there are more possibilities traveling than staying in a fixed location. Love how it’s brought us together and we’re doing things as a family so much more now, even though it’s mostly mundane stuff like going to the laundromat, going to the dumpsters, going to the grocery store. we eat all our meals together now basically, even if we don’t eat at the same time, because we’re in such a small shared space, we see when each other are eating and what. I love the constant smell of bonfire smoke and the laid-back, vacation like atmospheres of the parks. I like that every place we travel, we usually go out to eat at least once and sometimes find good food that we never would’ve tried if we had stayed in Lindenwold. I also love how I can vacuum our entire place in like 15 – 20 minutes because of the drastically reduced square footage.
10/8/25
even though we’re on an adventure, in some way, I feel my path is very charted, because I know what I want ultimately, a lot of the time. like my goals…and values. i don’t easily feel lost in strange places, because they’re strong within me.
10/10/25
had a hard night last night. fell asleep putting Hunter to sleep and woke up in his bed around 2 AM, went back to my bed and soothed from then until I had to clock in for work at 7:45 AM. Feet just would not stop weeping, so I couldn’t go to sleep. Things finally became decent enough for me to lie down around 9 AM, and i tried sleeping then but kept waking up continually to check laptop because I was on the clock. Did a little work. have lots to do later. The whole thing was torturous, and would have been unbearable if I didn’t have Netflix to distract me.
Later, we went to the aquarium in Atlantic City and walked around, and both feet hurt with nearly every step. Not sure what changed, what was the trigger. (my best guess is that the night before, I skipped a soothe- was so tired- and that usually makes the next night a lot worse). But had to put two bandages in socks last night. in pain today so that I can’t really smile all the way.
it’s also really cold today, which I feel freezing and that makes the pain a little worse. it dropped to 40s last night and about 60 now and im frozen. It didn’t feel drier and better till much later. like around 9 PM at night, it finally stopped hurting so much.
then, as the pattern kind of predicted, had an easy soothe this night. lesson I guess: don’t skip.
10/11/25
yesterday in the morning while I was still in bed, Baby ran into my room, got on top of me and slapping my belly said “your belly’s so big, you ate too much!” Then this morning, first thing he came in and we hugged and cuddled and he slapped my belly and yelled, “your belly is as big as an elephant!” laughing, and left. my belly is bigger since i birthed him, but not THAT much bigger. but I think he said that to me once a while ago, and saw how my face changed, the animated reaction he got, so that it’s one of the things he likes to say now, lol. he likes being super silly to provoke and to turn things inside out and upside down to get attention. he’s also been flailing his arms and legs really hard playing lately, full of energy.
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