I’ve been wanting to get some things written down before
life gets too busy and I forget! I used to do blog updates on Madigyn’s
milestones and then think I did one on Jayma… Life gets busier the more kids
you have that’s for sure. Just when I think it’s going to slow down in the
fall, we have birthday parties and the holidays.
One major hindrance that I’ve been struggling with is this
overwhelming feeling that everyone is so offended by what people say or post
and I have made the decision that it’s not that I don’t care how others feel,
it’s that if you don’t like it move on, scroll on, don’t read what I have to
say.. that being said, I am going to try harder to make time to jot down short
blogs of things that are going on in our lives or funny things the girls are
doing lately or even how I feel about stuff in general in an effort to try to
not forget them. So this more for me than anyone else but, I do feel like I
find security and better about my current struggles when I know I am not alone
so, maybe someone will get a bit of that out of it too who knows.
I guess the best place to start is with Irelynd since I
haven’t ever written any of her milestones. I will never be able to stop saying
how quickly life flies by, I don’t know what it would be like without kids or
how quickly it would go but, I do know that the more kids I have the faster it
seems to fly by! I get so wrapped up in the day to day schedule and hour to
hour schedule that the days begin to blend and the weeks wiz by!
Irelynd will turn EIGHT months old on Friday.. She is
pulling herself up on everything, waving and saying hi on q, she knows her name
and looks at you when called and can find those calling out to her, she is just
starting to get a bit shy with others and she sure loves her mama! She is so
determined all the time and she is very good at communicating what she wants,
she has started her own version of sign language for more puffs where she takes
both hands and swipes them across her tray as if they were on it and wants more
as soon as she sits down. She is smart, and she is not easily distracted. We
have to give her a toy or a clean diaper to play with in order to be able to
change her diaper, she can roll so fast. She loves digging in the dirt of my Christmas
cactus and pulling the tray off the coffee table too, so curious. She had a
bout of waking at 1am every night for a good 2-3 weeks but, we have broken her
habit for the time being and she has since slept past her 4am wake up too!
Thank you for the sleep!! So, I wake her as early as 5:30am to start our day. Thankfully
my mom comes to the house and watches her and gets M & J off to school two
days a week and it’s a life saver. Sally was able to watch M & J for quite
a while when they were young and not having her this time around has been sad
but, I am thrilled that my mom is able to watch them for us as often as she
does. This is our first time having an infant in any type of childcare facility
and so far it is going really well.
I was able to take 13 weeks of leave for maternity, 9 of
those were spent pacing the floor for 5-9 hours per day with a crying colic
baby. Brad was amazing during this time and I also had a lot of help from my
Mom, she still came to the house for a few weeks two times a week and would help
me with M&J and with typical household duties and to allow me to sleep
during the day since I wasn’t sleeping at night. Brad took shifts into the late
hours or the super early shift before work and one day the colic was over… just
as suddenly as it began it ended. To this day I am thankful it didn’t last 12
weeks and that I got that three weeks to try to enjoy my time with Irelynd and
pretending to be a stay at home mom. Our daycare didn’t have an infant opening
on June 1st when I returned to work and thank goodness that my second
mom Joan was willing and able to come and watch Irelynd three days a week until
the opening was available and then the Friday’s until I was able to get Friday’s
off at work on July 1st. I wouldn’t have been able to return to work
otherwise and I most likely would have quit my job (not that that would have
been a bad thing) I am so very thankful for her ability to do so and for the
lack of concern with whom I was leaving our baby in the care of.
So life is crazy, I don’t see that it will ever not be crazy
at this point. I think this is the normal, this is our life..it’s fast and
exhausting but, we make the best of it and I would never pick a better partner
in life than Brad.
