It’s official. The last of our help flew home yesterday and we are now on our own.
**Keri and Grandma hanging out together.**
How fitting that just this morning Code Yellow Mom sent me this comic. It sums life up nicely.
I also had to chuckle at another email I got from a dear friend last week. She casually stated:
“You are an exemplary family … you make parenting look easy.”
Obviously she hasn’t been able to keenly observe my mental stability and my sometimes cruddy behavior towards my two oldest children over the last four weeks as I have slowly been adjusting to life as a mother of three.
Time. Yes, I am still giving myself time and allowing myself to process this new realm I have entered.
At least I have cute kids that keep me putting one foot in front of the other … or rather I should say they help force me to lift my head off the pillow every morning, even if they don’t allow me to brush my teeth until well after noon.
**Eli is already one month old.**
**Impromptu photo session before Grandma left to catch her plane.**
It’s hard to believe he is already a month old! Cute pictures! It will get easier! It sounds like you’ve done great with the transition to 3!
Eli has changed so much already! It goes by so fast at times yet seems to drag on forever doesn’t it? I had to laugh at the cartoon – so true!
Love the comic! When we reached child number 3 my husband become fond of saying “We have moved from man to man defense to zone defense.” Good luck. My baby just turned 1 and I still sit back and wonder how I made it this far, while also wondering how I’m going to make it through tomorrow. Will some of you go to school already!!!
He is such a cutie!
The last picture is great!!! Captured the moment, huh?! Oh and the comic is great!
First time visitor and obviously a huge congrats are in order….you’re on your own. Looks like you have it under control.:)
I’m going in just the opposite direction. I will be finding my “new reality” when your youngest sisters leave for BYU and one goes back for year 3 and the next moved out. How well I remember when number 3 arrived. The balancing does become easier with time. That ever ellusive thing. You are doing great! Love the last photo.
Love MOM
It must get easier or our mothers wouldn’t have had number 4.
The first two months really are the hardest, aren’t they? Your’e so right that it’s about time.
Me and patience though, we’ve never seen eye-to-eye…
Oh my goodness that is a cute baby!!! It may take you a little while to figure out how to work everything but you will do it. You will be great!
Love and prayers to you during transition.
My MIL said that they third baby is the shocker! It is so true! That cartoon is really cute!
My son wore that same little striped sleeper. How cute!!!
I have a picture of both of my babies screaming their sweet little heads off while everyone else in the picture is smiling. It cracks me up every time I run across them. You have an adorable family.
when my mom drove away to the airport, 10 days after bronwen was born, i cried for 3 hours. literally. i couldn’t stop. it just felt too overwhelming to do it by myself. i think the only thing that was really easier with my fourth was knowing that i really would adjust soon, that the baby really would start sleeping better, that the first six weeks would all be a blurry dream soon, that my crazy mood swings and post partum antisocial ways would also be temporary. and it was all true. in a few months, you won’t even really remember how hard it was.
just remember that you don’t have to truly get back to real life until you are ready. you can still fake dinners most nights, brush your teeth in the afternoon, and sporadically blog for as long as it takes. we’ll still be here.
How great that you have had help for a whole month! You will do great!
Ha ha! I love that cartoon!
Good luck! Isn’t it a treat to have the help of loving hands and hearts? That’s great you had visitors. Now, on your own, it will get better. It was definitely harder to adjust to having 3 (love the comment man to man defense now on zone defense. Jake would agree). I look now and see that i’m 1.5 years into having three and can’t believe it. It’s not easy but it’s definitely worth it! Cute pictures.
That comic is hilarious, and your kiddos are too cute! Hope things get easier soon. My sister has three kids and they just got to the point where they were able to get rid of the portable crib, highchair, etc. and it’s gotten a lot easier…
Try 5 to 2! We’re really outnumbered here.
Hang in there! You’ll make it and wonder at why you ever thought having “only” two was hard…
You’ll make it. I have faith in you! Really, I just know that if I can do it anyone can.
The blue stripes are adorable. Cute, cute boy!
oh E is so so cute. i wish i could snuggle and love him! and K looks so grown up! a little teenager! eek – how times flies! i love these sweet little kids, i wish we could hang out! sorry that mom is gone. i was real sad the day she left me after A was born. i wish i could come be the next on your “help” list. maybe next time…
I love the last picture…I can’t tell you how many I have the resemble it in some way! I remember crying when my mom left after #2 was born. It felt so comfortable and reassuring to have her there and when she left I wondered if I could actually go forward and do it on my own.
(PS – left an “award” for you on my blog today)
I bet you’re doing great. Here’s a vote of confidence from a friend out East.
Sigh. It seemed my real adjustments and post-partem didn’t kick in until my help left. Let the games begin…..
You’ll do great!
Your children are so very, very cute, and the baby is just beautiful! Take it easy on yourself.
One month old already?? How did that happen? He sure is a cutie, Lucy!
That family photo perfectly illustrates how different each child can be. =)
That comic strip is so hilarious. I had to forward it to my husband. That’s us in about 3 weeks!