Dear Self,
It is true that you are not gifted with the ability to forget the pain of childbirth; rather you remember it vividly, but in a strange sort of way, embrace it and find strength in it. Excellent. But, what you always do seem to forget is just how challenging it is to get back in a routine after the babymoon has ended. You forget how few things are actually accomplished on a Productive Day during those first two-ish months after Baby is born. You forget that meals and household routines are going to remain simple, basic, and full of compromise for a couple of months--at least. You always forget that completing a couple of loads of laundry, putting three meals on the table, changing some diapers and playing a couple of rounds of Old Maid with the three year old will make you feel like the leading lady on the next episode of Domestic Diva.
Continue, though, I beg to milk the joy out of every minute and not let the collecting dust rattle you too much. Continue to shower the family with laughs and love and know, as you surely do by now, that the routines will return, the house will be as clean as it once was and that no one is starving as long as the grill is hot and there are chilled watermelons in the fridge.
Love,
Me
p.s.-Note to Self: Whatever you forget about the two or three blurry, exhausting months, be sure to remember that it was all worth it. Every blessed second of it.
2 comments:
Excellent. i might print this out and mail it to myself in a few months!
Thank you for this! As I type with my 5 week old in my lap, and await my mother-in-law to arrive from the airport! My house is not perfect, and I have spit-up on my shoulder. But my kids are dressed, the laundry is in the dryer, and dinner is miraculously in the oven! I am trying to remember to baby gaze and enjoy my third little bundle of JOY, such a gift. P.S. I got this link from my dear friend who posted above.
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