Anyway. I wanted to write about life with my two girls and fill you in on how things have been going for me. Next week will be 4 months and I guess you could say we are kind of in a rhythm. I am not much for schedules and being real strict with times for feeding or sleeping but we have a general routine or rhythm. Every day is different so we kind of just go with the flow of the day and see what happens. Noni is on a pretty set nap schedule though so we usually try and go out in the morning and either run errands, play dates, shopping, visiting friends or whatever else we do and then I really try to be home no later then 2:00 (maybe 2:30). When Noni was a baby she was such a cat-napper so I would rely on driving in the car in order for her to sleep. Since she was about a year old or so she has been taking a good afternoon nap that started out at about an hour long and now is 2 hours every day. I look forward to that break in the day now and my goal every day is to get Evey to nap at that same time. Needless to say that doesn’t always happen.
That was a little bunny trail about naps. Back to life with the girls. Its fun, crazy, chaotic, stressful, tiring, and amazing all at the same time. I still am blown away when I stop and think about the fact that I have 2 girls. Its so wonderful. When I was younger I always dreamed of getting married and having a little girl and now I have two!!! I am so blessed!! In the midst of the craziness I have to stop and remind myself that. “I AM SO BLESSED!” I look forward to all the amazing things me and my girls will do together. Right now with my super energetic 2 year old who is what I would call a “High Needs” child (not high maintenance, that’s totally different) ;) I am pretty worn out at the end of the day. (physically and emotionally) Evey is easy and mellow right now but Noni girl needs a lot of attention throughout the day. Typical two year old I guess. She doesn’t play much by herself yet so she helps me with stuff which then takes twice as long as it should. She has really been doing well with Evey though. She is genuinely interested in her and asks me where Evey is if she can’t find her and wants to touch her and talk to her ALL the time. She struggles to be gentle (of course, shes only 2) but that is my biggest frustration throughout the day. “Noni be gentle, Noni stop touching her face, Noni leave her be please,” like a million times a day. Uhg. And I’m fine if she touches her if Eveys fine with it but she eventually gets sick of Noni pulling on her and poking her. Here of late Noni has been getting rougher and rougher with her so I really have to keep an eye on her. I do love to see them together though. I can’t wait for them to be able to play together.
Thankfully I have a wonderful husband who helps me out a lot. Just tonight he swept the house for me and made dinner for tomorrow night so that I just have to heat it up. I have to ask for it but he gives me time to myself which is desperately needed for my sanity and he helps a lot with Noni girl when he is home. She is really becoming a daddys girl. So life is good. I am going through what every mom goes through, I’m tired, I’m stressed, I am wondering what happened to my old body and the old me but along with all that I am trying to enjoy and savor every moment of motherhood I possibly can because it is the most amazing gift in the world! I wouldn’t trade it for anything!!
P.S. If I would have wrote this post last week it would have been a whole lot more negative. It truly is a challenge of mine to be positive and look at the blessings instead of the trials.
