Blog #2 Imagine that...I came back for a second run

So here goes….blog post #2. Again, what am I doing here? Why am I doing this? I seem to question everything I do…why is that? I was just reading an article on Oprah’s website, because I can’t watch TV anymore. Yeap that’s right girls….once you have a child, you’re lucky if you get to squeeze in an episode of John and Kate plus 8 at 9 pm at night. And no - you can’t just stay up later because the baby is sleeping – you are exhausted! You can try to stay up, but sleep will over take your body like an alien abduction. You have no control. Oh and the funny thing, the baby is sleeping…yes that’s funny because you know the baby is not going to sleep all night and he or she is not going to be in their crib all night!

Ok back to the topic at hand….the article was entitled the Truth About Motherhood. The article was full of moms describing how motherhood has changed them and basically, no one told them it would be this way. All I can say is…..AMEN SISTER! After the birth of my son, I felt like a lost soul wandering around saying “No one told me it would be this way!”. If someone would have said get through the first year and you’ll be ok, I don’t know if it would have made a difference or not, but I’d like to think it would. My advice going forward for moms, not that I’m the expert, is to take each day at a time. Just focus on small periods of time; just get through the first month. It’s so much better after the first month. Then it’s even better after the first 4 months. You will make it…I promise. Each month its gets easier and once you make it to year one….the angels in the heavens are rejoicing for you!

I can’t say much about life after the first year at this point. My little man is almost 15 months. New challenges are revealing their ugly heads! For example, I have to turn my back to him and hide the sippy cup while I fill it with filtered water from the refrigerator (heaven forbid we give our children tap water….you’ve all read what’s in tap water…I’m surprised the FDA even allows it into our homes! Please recognize the sarcasm. Yes I spent many summers as a kid drinking from the garden hose and I’m sure my son will too!) Anyway, he’s at the stage of wanting to put everything together and take it apart again. He could be dying of thirst and that is quickly ignored at the opportunity to take the sippy cup apart and put it back together again. Yes I let him do it as much as possible…but come on….sometimes I just want to get the water into the cup and give it to him.

So after reading the Oprah article, I decided that I would post a second blog. Hey if no one ever reads it then at least I got some things off my chest. If people do read it, then hey, maybe some of us can help others or at least we won’t all feel like we’re the only ones. Moms do need to support one another because we’re not alone in this adventure. I’m not really sure how that support should happen…maybe a blog, a play date, a mom’s group (no group for me though….I was kicked out of the last mom’s group I joined!). Any advice please post away!