As a mother you know that its going to happen, at one time or another your child will get sick. However, there is nothing that can prepare you for it! David came home sick on Tuesday and was sick the rest of the week. Daniel started having a runny nose on Thursday, and I got a lovely sore throat the same day.
Everyday while he was sick I had to use the wonderful "blue bulb" if I was a baby I would hate the site of that thing too! Daniel hates it - he sees it now and he starts pushing it away. This of course was the first thing my son learned to do...push away!
Thursday Daniel, my Mom and myself went for a big, long day out! We left our house at 9:30 and returned at 8:30 that evening. Mom acted as "Nanny for the day" while I went shopping. I really needed a day to go and do lots of little stuff. You know those "run in and run out" visits, that with a baby turn into 2 hour stops instead of 30 minute stops! I waited a little over a month to go clothes shopping as I didn't want to buy things while my water weight was still here. And yes while I did lose all of my water weight - I still have 10 pounds to lose to get to my pre-pregnancy size (not that it was my ideal size to began with) The one thing that no one tells you - not that they should have to - is that just because you lose all that weight, your body is not the same. My hips are wider, my belly is like a bowl full of jelly, and my feet well, good bye little cute shoes. I can't help but think that it's all part of God's plan. When you become a mother the last thing you do is have time to put those cute little outfits together or keep up with the latest and greatest, you barely have time to get dressed at all!
So we got all of the little stuff taken care of and then it was off to find me new clothes. Store number one, I cried - store number two, I cried, and finally by store number three God stepped in. We went to Cold water Creek, I had never been there before, by first look I thought there was nothing I would ever like. Mom had found a black shirt and black pants so I tried them on. I went to the dressing room where there was a fabulous lady name Debbie - God I love her! She made me feel like I was on the show, "What not to wear" except she was really nice! I told her the whole store about just having a baby, yea, yea, yea. I told her that I needed 5 outfits to go back to work and weekend clothes - I had to do all of this on a budget. Sometime I hate the fact that my husband is an accountant! Oh, the days when I just bought stuff and never looked at price tags! Of course, that was before I had my precious baby so I would must rather have him!
Two hours and I won't say how much I went over my budget (it was worth it) I had all the clothes I needed and they look great. Even though I had gone up a couple of sizes I don't feel like it when I wear my new clothes. I honestly haven't felt that in a while. I guess that's why maternity clothes come in Small, Medium, and Large.
I only have 3 weeks left at home before I have to go back to work. I have become Martha Stewart trying to organize our new life and our house. David keeps calling it our "new normal" and I have to agree. With Daniel in the house I feel like we have things to do with meaning, before we just did things. Our family is also having to get used to our "new normal" we can't just pick up and go now. We have to think about bedtimes, nap times, feeding times, the list goes on and on.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Busy as a buzzy bee
I have one word for motherhood...busy! I have been so busy the last couple of weeks, I looked up and realized I haven't blogged in weeks. So here is what has been going on the in the Roach Farmer house the past couple of weeks.
Daniel decided that he had the power to be in control of mommy and daddy so he took advantage! We have been trying to put him on a schedule, at this point I wouldn't care what it was as long as he stuck to it. He has been eating a lot. So much that I had to call the doctor to see what I could do to up my milk supply. Her answer... O'douls beer. As crazy as it sounds, it works. So along with all the eating that he is doing comes lots of dirty diapers, and we have tons of them. I have finally learned my lesson to change him only in his changing drawer and not on my bed. We have cleaner sheets that anyone in the neighborhood as they were washed three times in one day...hello mommy I pee on everything.
I have experienced some of the harder times of motherhood this week. It started with me taking him to the doctor. Which by the way Daniel gained 3 pounds and grew 1 whole inch. I was told to stop holding him so much (what else am I to do with my new baby???) start pumping to prepare for going back to work, and most importantly putting him on a schedule. I never knew that word would make me sick. After all I am the queen of a schedule, as my friend Randell says I make a list to tell me to make a list. People tell you that babies don't come with manuals...I don't need a manual I need Franklin Covey, does he make house calls??? With trying to put him on a schedule I had to do something so hard that it made me want to crawl in a closet and not come out for a long time, I had to let my 1 month old baby cry himself to sleep. As I am sure that I am not the first mother to do this, I felt like I was all alone in a big, big world.
The cool thing, or my light at the end of the tunnel as I like to call it, is that I have started to pick up on what his cries mean. As a new mom that is the coolest thing, my baby cries and I know what to do!!! I just hate it when I get the "mommy please just hold me forever" cry and I can't do it.
I have 1 more month of maternity leave and while I am going to hate to leave my precious baby boy, I don't know how women stay at home. I am definitely not the "stay at home mom" type. As much as I love my baby I need to have adult interaction ever once in a while. David really wants me to stay at home, staying home is just not for me. If I ever did decide to quit my job I would have to do charity work or something.
Today we took Daniel to get his 1 month pictures. Yes, I am going to be one of those mom's who is a picture freak. That is why I can't quit work, I have to pay for pictures. He hated every second of getting his pictures taken. Luckily we had a really good photographer who had more patients than we did. I felt so bad for the poor guy. Daniel cried for an hour, the only way we got him not to cry was by putting a bottle in his mouth, having the photographer count to 3, and then pull it out while he took the picture. After an hour of crying you'll do just about anything.
This week should be just as busy as the last 4. I have to start getting back into the swing of things. My housework has taken a back seat so I have to start on that - yes I have to have clean baseboards - baby or not! I have to get my wedding ring re sized - I have gone to long without it, I feel like people look at me with a baby and wonder if I am married or not. My mom and I are going shopping Thursday - it is way past time for me to get new clothes. I promised David I would be good and not go too overboard. And last but not least, I have to get my son on a schedule!
Please pray that I am able to get some of these done!!!
Daniel decided that he had the power to be in control of mommy and daddy so he took advantage! We have been trying to put him on a schedule, at this point I wouldn't care what it was as long as he stuck to it. He has been eating a lot. So much that I had to call the doctor to see what I could do to up my milk supply. Her answer... O'douls beer. As crazy as it sounds, it works. So along with all the eating that he is doing comes lots of dirty diapers, and we have tons of them. I have finally learned my lesson to change him only in his changing drawer and not on my bed. We have cleaner sheets that anyone in the neighborhood as they were washed three times in one day...hello mommy I pee on everything.
I have experienced some of the harder times of motherhood this week. It started with me taking him to the doctor. Which by the way Daniel gained 3 pounds and grew 1 whole inch. I was told to stop holding him so much (what else am I to do with my new baby???) start pumping to prepare for going back to work, and most importantly putting him on a schedule. I never knew that word would make me sick. After all I am the queen of a schedule, as my friend Randell says I make a list to tell me to make a list. People tell you that babies don't come with manuals...I don't need a manual I need Franklin Covey, does he make house calls??? With trying to put him on a schedule I had to do something so hard that it made me want to crawl in a closet and not come out for a long time, I had to let my 1 month old baby cry himself to sleep. As I am sure that I am not the first mother to do this, I felt like I was all alone in a big, big world.
The cool thing, or my light at the end of the tunnel as I like to call it, is that I have started to pick up on what his cries mean. As a new mom that is the coolest thing, my baby cries and I know what to do!!! I just hate it when I get the "mommy please just hold me forever" cry and I can't do it.
I have 1 more month of maternity leave and while I am going to hate to leave my precious baby boy, I don't know how women stay at home. I am definitely not the "stay at home mom" type. As much as I love my baby I need to have adult interaction ever once in a while. David really wants me to stay at home, staying home is just not for me. If I ever did decide to quit my job I would have to do charity work or something.
Today we took Daniel to get his 1 month pictures. Yes, I am going to be one of those mom's who is a picture freak. That is why I can't quit work, I have to pay for pictures. He hated every second of getting his pictures taken. Luckily we had a really good photographer who had more patients than we did. I felt so bad for the poor guy. Daniel cried for an hour, the only way we got him not to cry was by putting a bottle in his mouth, having the photographer count to 3, and then pull it out while he took the picture. After an hour of crying you'll do just about anything.
This week should be just as busy as the last 4. I have to start getting back into the swing of things. My housework has taken a back seat so I have to start on that - yes I have to have clean baseboards - baby or not! I have to get my wedding ring re sized - I have gone to long without it, I feel like people look at me with a baby and wonder if I am married or not. My mom and I are going shopping Thursday - it is way past time for me to get new clothes. I promised David I would be good and not go too overboard. And last but not least, I have to get my son on a schedule!
Please pray that I am able to get some of these done!!!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Week 2
I had told myself that I would update my blog every week, this week that didn't happen. So here was our week of June 30th - July 6th, it was a little too exciting!
Monday, June 30th
Today we hung around the house all day. Daniel was really good today. He stayed on his feeding schedule and he slept a lot. I am still trying to get into a schedule of not sleeping all day. I feel like that is all I have done since we got home. David started taking the 12 a.m. feedings today so I can get 6 hours of sleep. Maybe I won't sleep all during the day! Because David was up he and Daniel were very thoughtful and woke me up at 12 a.m. to be the first one's to tell me Happy Birthday!
Tuesday, July 1st
Happy 27th Birthday to me!! Today's goal, get out of the house by myself. Thanks to the sleep I was able to get last night, thanks to my lovely husband I actually felt great when I woke up. So I started really early because we had to get out of the house by 12. I had to get myself ready, give Daniel a bath, and get him ready. 3 hours after I started we were ready to go have lunch with David. We met David at his work and had lunch, it was so nice to get out of the house, have a meal and my baby all in one setting. Daniel was so good, I was very proud of him. After lunch I had to go to the hospital and drop the breast pump off I had rented while we were at the hospital. We left in such a hurry to go to the hospital, I forgot to get my breast pump. After the hospital we went back to David's work, the people David works with wanted to see him. Just for those of you who know the inside joke...they all met me in the lobby. I swear my husband works for the C.I.A. or some top secret department as I have NEVER seen were he works. I am allowed to go to the building, and set in the lobby but that's it! We left there and Daniel was still being really good so I thought we could stop by and see my mom at work. I thinking I was asking a little too much, he was really fussy after that. Because we had already celebrated my birthday on Saturday the three of us just hung around the house and had dinner here. It was a very nice birthday, plus my wonderful husband got me a massage to a fabulous day spa...gotta love that!
Wednesday, July 2nd
Today was pretty much the same as always. We stayed home and Daniel did very well today. Wednesday night we did go over to David's parents for dinner before going to church. This was Daniel's first trip to church. I left him in his seat, I am still over protective mommy! He seemed to be ok with church. We are however going to have to figure out a different nursing schedule. He was hungry right in the middle of church.
Thursday, July 3rd
Today went by really fast. David got off from work at noon and we just did stuff around the house. One thing I have learned from having Daniel...I had no idea how much time I had before he was born. We just thought we were busy before. The days go by so fast because I have SO much to do. That is the one good thing about 4 a.m. feedings, you get to enjoy the whole day!
Friday, July 4th
Happy 4th of July!!! Today was a very nice day. We met my parents at Applebees for lunch, and then went over to some family friends house to swim. Daniel was of course the center of attention! His little cousin who is 4 months old was there and looked like a first grader compared to Daniel. We stayed there for a while. Daniel got to spend some quality time with his grandmother and it was nice to get out of the house and around people. Everyone asked me before Daniel was born if I was going to quit work. Not that I had any doubts that I would, but after being at home for three weeks, it's just not for me. We left the party around 5 and went to David's parents for dinner. We stayed there just long enough for me to pump, have dinner, and change Daniel. Then we went to an outdoor concert at Lipscomb. Yes, I know I am crazy for taking my 2 week old to an outdoor concert. To make me feel better we put him in his stroller and left him there. He actually slept through the whole concert and the fireworks after. Then when everything was over he woke up. That's my child, he sleeps through every thing.
Saturday, July 5th
Not such a great day today. We woke up early this morning to get ready and go to the bookmobile. The bookmobile is a mobile library that comes to our town every Saturday and has since David was a little boy. David had been waiting his whole life to take his son to the bookmobile. What do you know, the Saturday that we go they no longer have it. The city had cut it due to budget cuts. David was so mad. So to try to make a bad day good we went to see Annette. Annette was David's neighbor when he was growing up and is like a grandmother to him. When we pulled up, unannounced, we realized that he son was in from Singapore. We felt so bad, but they loved the visit. She was so excited to see him. We left there and went to have lunch with Jody, Jenny, and Sydney. At first Daniel was great, then he got really fussy. I took him out to the car to nurse him, that was fun. We left the restaurant and came back home to visit with our friends and Daniel was fussy the rest of the day!
Sunday, July 6th
Daniel's first Sunday at church. Today was Daniel's blessing at church. I had bought him an adorable gown to wear, but like everything else it is really big on him. He wore the same thing he came home in the hospital in. It was a wonderful day at church, everyone got to see him for the first time. He wasn't to fussy, we went to the nursery one time for me to change him. I didn't think that was too bad, we were at church for 3 hours. He baby blessing was very nice, even though he didn't have his cute outfit on. After church I nursed him and we went to lunch with David's parents. Things went down hill after that, he started crying, and crying, and crying. He normal never cry's unless he's hungry or needs to be changed. I honest think that we had done just too much over the last couple of days and he just wanted things to go back to normal. We did go to life groups Sunday night and he seemed to be ok. He's just a growing boy and needs lots of attention.
Monday, June 30th
Today we hung around the house all day. Daniel was really good today. He stayed on his feeding schedule and he slept a lot. I am still trying to get into a schedule of not sleeping all day. I feel like that is all I have done since we got home. David started taking the 12 a.m. feedings today so I can get 6 hours of sleep. Maybe I won't sleep all during the day! Because David was up he and Daniel were very thoughtful and woke me up at 12 a.m. to be the first one's to tell me Happy Birthday!
Tuesday, July 1st
Happy 27th Birthday to me!! Today's goal, get out of the house by myself. Thanks to the sleep I was able to get last night, thanks to my lovely husband I actually felt great when I woke up. So I started really early because we had to get out of the house by 12. I had to get myself ready, give Daniel a bath, and get him ready. 3 hours after I started we were ready to go have lunch with David. We met David at his work and had lunch, it was so nice to get out of the house, have a meal and my baby all in one setting. Daniel was so good, I was very proud of him. After lunch I had to go to the hospital and drop the breast pump off I had rented while we were at the hospital. We left in such a hurry to go to the hospital, I forgot to get my breast pump. After the hospital we went back to David's work, the people David works with wanted to see him. Just for those of you who know the inside joke...they all met me in the lobby. I swear my husband works for the C.I.A. or some top secret department as I have NEVER seen were he works. I am allowed to go to the building, and set in the lobby but that's it! We left there and Daniel was still being really good so I thought we could stop by and see my mom at work. I thinking I was asking a little too much, he was really fussy after that. Because we had already celebrated my birthday on Saturday the three of us just hung around the house and had dinner here. It was a very nice birthday, plus my wonderful husband got me a massage to a fabulous day spa...gotta love that!
Wednesday, July 2nd
Today was pretty much the same as always. We stayed home and Daniel did very well today. Wednesday night we did go over to David's parents for dinner before going to church. This was Daniel's first trip to church. I left him in his seat, I am still over protective mommy! He seemed to be ok with church. We are however going to have to figure out a different nursing schedule. He was hungry right in the middle of church.
Thursday, July 3rd
Today went by really fast. David got off from work at noon and we just did stuff around the house. One thing I have learned from having Daniel...I had no idea how much time I had before he was born. We just thought we were busy before. The days go by so fast because I have SO much to do. That is the one good thing about 4 a.m. feedings, you get to enjoy the whole day!
Friday, July 4th
Happy 4th of July!!! Today was a very nice day. We met my parents at Applebees for lunch, and then went over to some family friends house to swim. Daniel was of course the center of attention! His little cousin who is 4 months old was there and looked like a first grader compared to Daniel. We stayed there for a while. Daniel got to spend some quality time with his grandmother and it was nice to get out of the house and around people. Everyone asked me before Daniel was born if I was going to quit work. Not that I had any doubts that I would, but after being at home for three weeks, it's just not for me. We left the party around 5 and went to David's parents for dinner. We stayed there just long enough for me to pump, have dinner, and change Daniel. Then we went to an outdoor concert at Lipscomb. Yes, I know I am crazy for taking my 2 week old to an outdoor concert. To make me feel better we put him in his stroller and left him there. He actually slept through the whole concert and the fireworks after. Then when everything was over he woke up. That's my child, he sleeps through every thing.
Saturday, July 5th
Not such a great day today. We woke up early this morning to get ready and go to the bookmobile. The bookmobile is a mobile library that comes to our town every Saturday and has since David was a little boy. David had been waiting his whole life to take his son to the bookmobile. What do you know, the Saturday that we go they no longer have it. The city had cut it due to budget cuts. David was so mad. So to try to make a bad day good we went to see Annette. Annette was David's neighbor when he was growing up and is like a grandmother to him. When we pulled up, unannounced, we realized that he son was in from Singapore. We felt so bad, but they loved the visit. She was so excited to see him. We left there and went to have lunch with Jody, Jenny, and Sydney. At first Daniel was great, then he got really fussy. I took him out to the car to nurse him, that was fun. We left the restaurant and came back home to visit with our friends and Daniel was fussy the rest of the day!
Sunday, July 6th
Daniel's first Sunday at church. Today was Daniel's blessing at church. I had bought him an adorable gown to wear, but like everything else it is really big on him. He wore the same thing he came home in the hospital in. It was a wonderful day at church, everyone got to see him for the first time. He wasn't to fussy, we went to the nursery one time for me to change him. I didn't think that was too bad, we were at church for 3 hours. He baby blessing was very nice, even though he didn't have his cute outfit on. After church I nursed him and we went to lunch with David's parents. Things went down hill after that, he started crying, and crying, and crying. He normal never cry's unless he's hungry or needs to be changed. I honest think that we had done just too much over the last couple of days and he just wanted things to go back to normal. We did go to life groups Sunday night and he seemed to be ok. He's just a growing boy and needs lots of attention.
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