I love my Kindle! I still read paper books as well - DH and I are big readers and like to reread books, so our house is crammed with bookshelves. But it is great being able to get a book immediately from Amazon or Gutenberg and not having to wait for it to be posted. Instant gratification.
I wish I had the Fire version for the light, though - it would be really useful to be able to read it while I'm feeding M back to sleep in the darkened room. Still, how does the Fire do on battery life? I got my Kindle just after Christmas - spent the whole run up to Christmas saying I didn't want one, and then suddenly decided I did on Hogmanay.
Anyway, I haven't been on holiday with it yet, but it will be great when I do, because usually we take heaps of books and they weigh a tonne.
Scarlet, how did you get out so quickly this morning with everything done? Respect. We made it to the bf group and they were really nice. There were maybe 7 or 8 mothers and 2 bf peer supporters there, with babies ranging from 11 weeks to 20 months - one woman came on her own without her baby, and another was there whose toddler had self-weaned at 17 months! They went round the group in the order of the youngest baby, and we each got a chance to ask questions. I asked about BLW - how they had got on, what they had done, what sort of food had they given their babies, what if their baby hardly ate anything, and what about spicy food or strong flavours. They all said to persevere - try giving M yoghurt dolloped straight onto her tray, give her a spoon and just sit back and let her play with it. Chilli, garlic and other strong flavours are fine, so long as it's not really really spicy. Yay, am going to make fish pie with chilli in tonight! And to sit at the table with her, which we are very bad at. I'm going to go to Ikea and buy a high chair today and make DH put the laptop down and eat at the table.
There was some interesting chat about controlled crying - one woman had done it last night for the first time (8 mo DD who had been waking up 10 times a night) and it had worked like a charm. She had put the baby down in her cot and sat on the landing with a book for 4 minutes at a time, and she said it was miraculous, the baby didn't cry, she just grumped a bit to herself, and it only took 20 mins for her to settle and then she slept for 10 hours straight! I'm going to ask for sleep advice next time - what if your baby goes to sleep well, but keeps waking up? Although I was only up twice last night, M was up 4 times - bed at 7.30, then up again at 9.30 and 11.15 (before I went to bed) and at 2.30 and 5.30, before getting up at 7.30. However, the 11 o'clock wake-up was fairly protracted and interrupted SFF.
Pet, I did the note thing myself last night after suggesting it to Dream - I wrote 'I love you' on a card and folded it around DH's phone so he couldn't miss it. He read it this morning before he left for work and was v touched. I must make more effort to do nice little things like that - it took me about 30 seconds and he was so pleased. What else can I do? It is soppy, but nice. I would love it if DH did things like that for me.