My Year In Review

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I have baby B in my moby wrap and a moment to actually blog right now. The toddler is sleeping and for some reason was excited to go upstairs and take a snooze. No bribery or anything. Weird. So I have had some blog posts lined up in my head that I've wanted to write, but the business portion of my blog has taken a front burner position while I try to make a little extra money since I'm not watching kids anymore. I'm not sure if I will again, its kind of up in the air. I am just six weeks postpartum and before I bring the chaos of adding another child to the chaos that is my day already, I'd like to have an established routine down and that is hard with a newborn who is nursing. I even have a problem keeping track of my own toddler and his potty issues right now along with bouncing a fussy baby around all the time and keeping a clean house. Yesterday I made major headway and we went to bed last night with a clean house and it felt good.

So one of the posts I had lined up was talking about our year in review and what I hope this year will bring and all the lessons I've learned as a human being and parent. Last year on New Year's day we woke up to a drunk driver situation. A drunk new year's eve driver hit my car parked in my own driveway and pushed it thru our garage. It was a horrible way to start the new year. We were depressed and not sure what we would do. We couldn't afford another vehicle and ours was totaled. But as things always seem to be in hindsight, things worked out. We have an even better vehicle now that is more kid friendly and road trip friendly with a DVD player. It has some nice features that would later accommodate our growing family.

In March we celebrated our J Myster's second birthday and soon after that we realized we were giving J Myster a sibling. My first pregnancy wasn't easy on me, and this second one was even more of a doozy with hyperemesis and ptyalism. Two things I had never heard of before. hyperemesis plagued me for all of my first trimester, it gradually just turned into morning sickness during the second trimester but I battled ptyalism until 23 weeks. Ugh! I wish it on no one.

We found out the day before my birthday that we were having a little boy and I was excited that our little JJ would have the bond of brotherhood since we had decided that two children would be all we had.

 In late August we took a road trip to Southern California to do something special with our J Myster before his little brother came. We took him to Lego Land, Sea World, The San Diego Zoo, the Beach and it was a blast, but oh so tiring for my six month pregnant body. We do however have some amazing memories that will go in J's video collage I make for him every year for his birthday.



October came, I had a little scare with going into pre-term labor and had to go to the hospital for some terbutaline but thankfully we kept the little one inside for 6 more weeks and he came the week after Thanksgiving and brought the season's first snowstorm with him.

To be honest the last six weeks have flown by. Its hardly seemed like a new year to me. Christmas was a blur and I slept thru New Year's and now six weeks later, I am trying to find the calm in the day's insanity. I know it will settle down as Baby B grows, so I'm trying to find the moments in each day that are precious in between the moments where I want to pull my hair out. ;)

Its hard to tell you what lessons I've learned from the last year that I can bring into this year mainly because there were so many moments to learn from as a parent, but I come into this new year more humbled. I can't come in with any specific insight on the secret to happiness or success or anything like that, but I am thankful for what I have. I have more than most people and I know this year when things seem hard, I just need to stop and put myself in the moments that matter. For example when you child is screaming at the top of his lungs in the back seat, don't yell at him to keep it down, turn up the music and jam out with him. This year is sure to fly by and before I know it Baby B will be one and I'll be asking myself where the time went. So I need to spend less time being frustrated with parenthood, and more time laughing and playing with my kids. If the house is dirty, let the house be dirty while I have fun playing with my boys, clean houses don't make memories. Life is fleeting and I can totally see that over the past six weeks and these moments are precious.


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