And then there was one. One adult with two kids that is. Yep, Jimmy went back to work, Donna left and now it's just me.
Yesterday was day 1. Not too bad! I woke up in a great mood, despite it being 7am and just having fallen back to sleep after the 5am feeding. The day went pretty well. It was a bit chaotic trying to feed and get everyone ready to go to dance class, but otherwise all was good. I did go to bed at 8:45 though. Yep, I didn't even make it to 9pm.
Today didn't go quite as well. We started out with Claire having a blowout of epic proportions as I was trying to get Brynlee ready for school. I was literally cleaning poop out of her belly button. It was front to back practically arm pit to arm pit. But we got Brynlee off to school on time. I went on a cleaning frenzy while Brynlee was at school and Claire was pretty cooperative. I find if I clean while Brynlee is home my clean house stays clean for about 2 min until a certain 3 year old messes it up again. This way it stayed clean for almost 3 hours until a certain 3 year old got home from school. I had to go to the store and figured only taking 1 kid was better than taking both so Claire and I ran some errands. In the car, out of the car. In the car, out of the car. I forgot how heavy those car seats are! Jeesh. We got home just in time for Brynlee to get out of school Oops, there went my nap time. And exercise time. And finding my inner peace time. Then it was feeding time for both girls and homework. Unfortunately that was accompanied by a splitting headache on my part, which refuses to go away. 1600 mg of ibuprofen and it's still hanging around.
I found myself losing patience today that I had plenty of yesterday. * sigh*. It's an adjustment period for everyone right? We'll get it figured out. I never did get dressed. I'm still sitting here in my pajama top however I did manage to throw on some yoga pants ( for the exercise I never did). Tomorrow will be better. On the positive side, at least I'm practically already dressed for bed. Which I'm ready to get into as soon as Jimmy gets home!
Waiting for James to arrive!
9 years ago
2 comments:
I'm so impressed you accomplished so much! I would have a headache too! Hope you feel better.
You're so lucky to have had help. My experience with two was more like baptism by fire. Came home from hospital on Sunday and Scott was back to work Monday which worked out well. Apparently he was out of vacation time and we didn't know it! Oops! And yes, its an adjustment for everyone. Every kid is different and everyone situations were different. Although I didn't have help I was very lucky to be tricked at the hospital. Jackson slept horrible in the hospital and was super fussy but when we brought him home he was a different baby and slept so well. And have you ever tried excedrin migraine? It's the ONLY thing that cures my headaches. Seriously... nothing else works but that will do it every time!
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