My New Life

LIfe has certainly changed since 1:37 a.m. on Saturday, October 4th, 2008.  When little miss Hannah was born, Trent and I were no longer two — but we had become three.  Doesn’t sound like a huge change, right?!?  Wrong!  I have quickly learned that having a little one completely changes your life.  Sure, I miss the way some things used to be (like being able to actually do my own hair in the morning or being able to lay down and take a nap when I was tired), but I wouldn’t trade the snuggles and kisses for anything in the world! 

Hannah struggled the first week to sleep without being held, which did pose a bit of a problem at night.  She has finally, in the last week, began sleeping next to our bed in her bassinet between feedings at night.  I must say it has been wonderful to be able to sleep in my own bed again!  The first week was rough, but she is growing up so fast and adjusting to her bassinet very well.  She still doeesn’t sleep very well if I put her in her crib or even the bassinet during the day, so I am getting in some good cuddle time during the days now.  I figure I might as well do that as long as I am able to be at home.  Besides, this is something that she too will soon outgrow. 

Otherwise, she is doing wonderful!  We are starting to get the hang of the entire eating /  breastfeeding thing, although there are times that her schedule doesn’t quite match up with mine, but she’s running the household now so we drop what we’re doing and eat!  She really has grown and started changing.  I don’t notice it as much since I’m with her all day every day, but others have really commented about her growing and changing.  It’s exciting to watch and see, but yet it’s sad because I know that this time is going to go way too fast.  When I put her in her swing, I know that she has grown a lot because she didn’t used to hardly look like she fit inside it because she was so small. 

I am just trying to maintain a household while keeping my sanity with how things have changed.  I have been a bit of an emotional wreck some days, but I know it’s all part of my hormones leveling back out and adjusting to not being pregnant any more.  It’s great when Trent is able to take her for most of the evenings so that I can get things done, and that makes me feel a lot better as well.  I haven’t quite figured out how to balance keeping the house picked up and cleaned with being a mom, but I’m sure that’ll also come in due time.  Right now I’m just going to cherish being a Mom.

On a work note, this is the end of our grading period.  Tomorrow is a work day, and I have to do my kids’ report cards (the sub can’t do them since they’re rubric-based).  So, I am opting to work tomorrow so that I could take another day off later with my sick leave.  Trent is going to keep Hannah for a while in the morning, and then she’ll spend the rest of the day with me at school.  I worked on report cards a bit tonight so that I dont’ have quite as much to do tomorrow since I’m sure that a lot of the day will be people stopping in to see the baby.  That’s all right, though, it makes it fun. 

Well, I will leave you all with a few pictures.  I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!