Starting Again
July 8th, 2010 by Jennifer, Compliance Paralegal, Sunnyvale office
As I type that title, I realize it has so many more meanings to me than I originally intended. You see I have a 13-going-to-be-14-year-old daughter and a 19-month-old son. I am remarried of course, and when we thought about starting a new family together I never thought I could do it all over again. I never thought I could do diapers and midnight bottles all over again. Then I had my beautiful baby boy, and I can’t believe I did the first time so young. I am so much more patient, wise and simply happier now than I ever was with my daughter.
But what I was originally thinking when I started writing this blog was the fact that after several months with my husband out of work, he has just found a job and we now have our son in daycare. OH BOY starting my days and routine all over again.
How can a day get any longer? I get up a 5 a.m. to go to work, while my husband gets up to take the baby to daycare. I go to work early, so I can be the one to pick him up. Once I pick him up, he of course is STARVING, so I race home to feed him dinner and cook dinner for the family. And by the time dinner is done, I have to bathe the baby, get him ready for bed, and give him a bottle…and I still haven’t eaten the food I just made. By the time I put him to bed, it’s 8:30 p.m. and I can finally eat my cold food. I eat, spend time with my daughter doing her homework, talking to my husband and tying up our plans for the next day. The next thing I know it’s 11 p.m. and I have to go to bed just so I can do it all over again…sound familiar?
Oh, did I mention that my son is teething and up all night, the dog got sick all over my kitchen floor, and my daughter wants to dye her hair some really cool colors. ALL this and yet we want to do it again, and I think maybe we are all a little crazy for having kids and trying to keep our long hours working. Then I smile at the beautiful picture I have on my computer to look at all day and realize…you have to be crazy not to want to see such beautiful people grow.
Starting again is trying, but great.
July 8th, 2010 by Jennifer, Compliance Paralegal, Sunnyvale office
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