messing up the mommy cart
Well, we just welcomed our sixth little one this past week! He is a beautiful little red head, and we are both recovering, and doing very well. He has been a dream baby and eats, and sleeps, and snuggles so perfectly. I told my husband that six seems to be so much easier to me than one, and we chuckled. Six is not easy! Don't misunderstand that. But, what I mean in that is that I am not suprised by things in the same way as when I had one kiddo. That first kiddo was so incredibly hard!! Although, I was a avid babysitter, nursery worker, school teacher, and Sunday school teacher I had no idea what it was like to have a child be in my complete care 24 hours a day. I even got a little break, and that first little one spent 12 days in the NICU where I was able to have "help" figuring things out.
Everywhere I went required 2 hours of meticulous planning, and packing. I would honestly google route times between destinations because I had (x) amount of window before I needed to be home, and feed, or change, or whatever. I was such a "book" mom. But I spent those early days in so many tears because baby was not a "book" baby. He spit up all over the book, he spit up all over everything! He was gross. I was gross cause I never could leave his side to shower, and we were a mess of tears, and burp cloths, and all kinds of chaos. And when we welcomed #2 things were better, but still pretty haphazard. He was a much much easier baby, and I was able to realize that perhaps life could include a shower or two, and a bit of sleep, even with a baby. But it was still pretty chaotic, and stinky.
But, its actually gotten better. Baby was born on Monday, and I've taken about 7 showers since then. :) I discovered the hot water helps relieve some of the recovery pain. See... I've learned some things over the time. Things like showers are nice, and a carseat is actually supposed to go in a car so that you can take the baby out of the house. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SHUT IN! We have taken baby to Chick fil A twice since we left the hospital. See- yummy food, and momma has no mess to clean up! oh, and kids can go play on the toys while you and husband sit and actually can talk.
But along my journey with motherhood Ive learned a few other things that I want to talk about more here today. It's the unpopular opinion part, and it has a lot to do with the word "opinion". You see, opinions are things we all have. We all carry, and form opinions generally based on our own experiences, or beliefs. They may be backed with educational qualities, they may simply be experience, but we all have them, and we all have our own. And most of the time, our opinions will not be the same- especially in regards to motherhood. Mothers are very opinionated people. We fashion our opinions, and then we stand by them as strongly as we would stand by our own baby for protection. And sometimes, our opinions are for protection.
PS. Publishing this 8 months later. HA HA HA!!
(And I love this thought, and never was able to finish it.... In my opinion, I had something good brewing. But alas, motherhood steered me. Isn't that more important than my opinion anyway. Im sure I can come back to this post and take up that thought again another time. :) )
Everywhere I went required 2 hours of meticulous planning, and packing. I would honestly google route times between destinations because I had (x) amount of window before I needed to be home, and feed, or change, or whatever. I was such a "book" mom. But I spent those early days in so many tears because baby was not a "book" baby. He spit up all over the book, he spit up all over everything! He was gross. I was gross cause I never could leave his side to shower, and we were a mess of tears, and burp cloths, and all kinds of chaos. And when we welcomed #2 things were better, but still pretty haphazard. He was a much much easier baby, and I was able to realize that perhaps life could include a shower or two, and a bit of sleep, even with a baby. But it was still pretty chaotic, and stinky.
But, its actually gotten better. Baby was born on Monday, and I've taken about 7 showers since then. :) I discovered the hot water helps relieve some of the recovery pain. See... I've learned some things over the time. Things like showers are nice, and a carseat is actually supposed to go in a car so that you can take the baby out of the house. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SHUT IN! We have taken baby to Chick fil A twice since we left the hospital. See- yummy food, and momma has no mess to clean up! oh, and kids can go play on the toys while you and husband sit and actually can talk.
But along my journey with motherhood Ive learned a few other things that I want to talk about more here today. It's the unpopular opinion part, and it has a lot to do with the word "opinion". You see, opinions are things we all have. We all carry, and form opinions generally based on our own experiences, or beliefs. They may be backed with educational qualities, they may simply be experience, but we all have them, and we all have our own. And most of the time, our opinions will not be the same- especially in regards to motherhood. Mothers are very opinionated people. We fashion our opinions, and then we stand by them as strongly as we would stand by our own baby for protection. And sometimes, our opinions are for protection.
PS. Publishing this 8 months later. HA HA HA!!
(And I love this thought, and never was able to finish it.... In my opinion, I had something good brewing. But alas, motherhood steered me. Isn't that more important than my opinion anyway. Im sure I can come back to this post and take up that thought again another time. :) )
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