This is our crazy life..

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 1^st 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 1^st. 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.