Tired Blather
Man - funny how a busy week is now busy not because of papers due or memos pending. Now my day can be made or broken depending on whether one little person has sinus congestion or not. Funnier still, I don't mind.
I will say one thing that has been tough lately is the length of D's hours. He is normally gone, for 12 hours a day. He leaves before 7 and is back a little after 7. That means morning to night, baby care is my job. I get him up in the morning and put him down at night. I deal with every scream in between (of which there are a great many). But I get all the smiles in between too. Usually D is home in time for bath and bedtime routine, but the very last part of the day is me because LM is still nursing to sleep.
I don't know what the point of that paragraph is. I should probably make one
but I'm too tired right now: LM was up at 6 this morning with congestion and he's still up at least twice a night. I guess the point of this post is that I'm happy, but tired, and occasionally a little sad that D isn't around more - but we're working on that.
I will say one thing that has been tough lately is the length of D's hours. He is normally gone, for 12 hours a day. He leaves before 7 and is back a little after 7. That means morning to night, baby care is my job. I get him up in the morning and put him down at night. I deal with every scream in between (of which there are a great many). But I get all the smiles in between too. Usually D is home in time for bath and bedtime routine, but the very last part of the day is me because LM is still nursing to sleep.
I don't know what the point of that paragraph is. I should probably make one
but I'm too tired right now: LM was up at 6 this morning with congestion and he's still up at least twice a night. I guess the point of this post is that I'm happy, but tired, and occasionally a little sad that D isn't around more - but we're working on that.
posted by grass @ 9:18 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:10 AM ,
Shelley said...
Your post is so timely! Yesterday I realized that I'd been home with the Peach so much that having her with me had become much more normal (and unobtrusive) than having her away from me. I'd come from this huge family where alone time was rare, and so even during the day, when Matthew went to work, I'd get this little "yeah! alone time!" feeling. After the baby was born, I'd be more overwhelmed that I was on my own taking care of her. And then yesterday, I realized that when Matthew was going to work in the mornings, I'd started to have that "yeah! alone time!" reaction again. I failed completely when I tried to explain this to him ("You mean you're glad when I leave...?" "No, no, that's not it at all!").
It probably has a lot to do with the fact I can read her better, she is an easier baby who can do more things, and her personality is emerging more and more. It's not a complete guessing game for me the way it was the first couple of months.
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