Thoughts on My Life

Dry is how I'd describe this blog as of lately. I don't want to bore my few readers with details of life as a stay-at-home mom, yet that's a huge chunk of what goes on in this neck of the woods. Plus, how can I be celebrating today and every day if I ignore the biggest part of my life? So, the long and short of it is expect more blog posts on Helena & being a mom.

Now that that's off my mind, let me restart this stream-of-consciousness blog post.

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5 months. FIVE MONTHS. How has time gone by so quickly? When she arrived, she was 20.25 inches; she is now 26.5 inches. She used to do nothing but relax in our arms; now she likes our arms to help her stand up or jump up and down. She used to sleep so well; now she doesn't.

Speaking of sleep, we just spent the last two hours getting her to sleep. Yikes. However tonight we decided to enjoy the extra necessary cuddles and have some quality family time while resting on our bed.


Tomorrow we're going to give her rice cereal for the first time, as that may help her get up only two times a night, rather than the regular three. As John said today, "I thought we'd be getting up multiple times in the night in March, not June." Plus, it would be good for her to gain a little extra weight and the doctor says rice cereal should help with that.

She's rolling over often now. She did it a bit in May and then it stopped. But over the last few days it has begun again. She's rolled over multiple times tummy to back but she's begun doing it back to tummy as well.

Our normal routine in the morning has been for me to take a quick shower while Helena plays on her back on her play mat outside the open bathroom door. This is where she was after my five-minute shower yesterday:


Again, she started on her back in the middle of the play mat five minutes earlier. Needless to say, our routine is going to change.

Becoming a mother really changes your life. You can't just sit down and read a book for four hours. You can't leave the house with nothing but keys & a wallet. You can't lie on the couch all day when you're feeling ill.

Yet those are the negatives and they're really quite small. Here are some of the things I celebrate in motherhood:

1) smiles coming my way the moment I wake up
2) a cooking companion


3) being offered a thumb to suck
4) the joy found in reading children's books
5) lounging in a pool rather than swimming laps
6) how things I've taken for granted have suddenly become fascinating - like grass


7) having a clean kitchen
8) cuddling with a little someone in the middle of the night
9) a husband who gets up at 5:30 a.m. to play with Helena so I can keep sleeping
10) and let's be honest all you moms out there - being someone's favorite person

Okay, my mind is blank. Thanks for sticking with me.