There's really nothing much to Mommyhood you wake up you feed the baby, the baby is happy and satisfied. Baby plays with toys and Mommy is happy baby is playing. Meanwhile, breakfast and then what? Play with baby, maybe do something around the house, maybe! a big round maybe! because who knows if I will even get around to it! I might get a shower in now and again and that is always nice and by now I am counting on somewhere in-between next year and the next 5 or 6 years in order to get a good shave in when I am found able to get a shower and shave somewhere in-between busy baby, loud busy baby noises and babbles and here Honey, you take the kid so I can see my legs for once. I might as well be Jane from Tarzan, except I am sure she found somewhere in the Jungle under a waterfall to wash her hair and get a good shave in and I am sure Tarzan appreciated it!!!!!
Anyway, by now I am also feeling fat and it doesn't help when an older lady from church notices I haven't lost the baby weight yet and points it out. Great! yes, I know, I've been thinking about that round belly of mine! When's a girl got time to work out???? I mean between waking up sometimes in the middle of the night and early mornings and play, play, play and a little house work, I'm loaded!!! to the top!! LOADED!! with just an agenda of Baby!! There is no real (ME!) time! So this is real life! My Mom and Dad -in-law are coming to visit and let me tell you I soon start spotting all the places in the house that need dusting, cleaning and fixing along with all those pesky Baby proofing areas you think you've covered and then realized that baby can now do all these extraordinary things!! ALL of Sudden!! out of the Blue!!! I mean no way!! who knew my baby could walk and climb over night??? Right when I think I have things covered or I have an actual plan of action for our day.
Every day is no ordinary day and so I have this to say to all Mom's Across the USA and around the world if your house is not a sparkly clean place from Morning until Night, you are Not alone! My House is never as perfect as I would like to imagine it is from the second I wake up to the moment my head hits the pillows. In my dreams I wake up and I make the bed first thing in the Morning before starting my day, why because if I don't I won't, and that's just life! I get up and the first thing in the Morning that really happens is that my baby needs my attention, diapers need to be changed and baby needs to be fed. Maybe after breakfast and nap we will both head back to Mommy and Daddy's room where I can now turn my attention to making the bed but first things first, baby always gets my first attentions.
Thanks to my Husband he has been taking certain days to attend to early Morning bottle feedings for baby. I got plenty of sleep this weekend and I think it will certainly pay off in the long week ahead. Anyway, I don't live a perfect life. I am no Magazine Model of what Mommyhood should like or what you might like it to look like or be. I'm just a Mommy on Mission to make it through the day in one piece of mind, heart and a happy spirit. No the house isn't a picture perfect clean together kind of house you might see on a Movie set but it is our Home and in our home life moves along at it's own pace and we like it.
I do make it my mission to tidy up at the end of the day and at the end of the day I am ready to hit the pillows and fall asleep. God is good all the time and all the time God is good. He get's me though the day every day all the time. There will be dishes that pile up and from time to time almost on an average of an every day life there will be dishes in the sink no matter what. I don't have someone who comes over and does the work for me or helps me out with my daily life as a Mom, it's just me. Our day is left to me and it's up to me to help us make it successfully through that day without too much stress and anxiety, though I do have to say, I have that one Neighbor who just loves to blast his music up loud. Not exactly the best ending to our day, but someday, I am sure his wife will want him to turn it down, they have kids.............
These days are special for who I have in my life, but there is nothing fancy about every day life as a mom. If your house ever gets dirty it just means you live in it and your doing life there. Don't stress. If you look like a Momma it's probably because you are one. I'm positive you'll find yourself again.
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