but no one tells you how you'll never sleep the same again after having a baby. Your sleep is different. Your everyday life is changed forever. Suddenly there's this little person who is a perfectly blended version of you and your husband swaddled and sleeping, crawling around and then walking beside you. I can firmly say my life is different in every facet of my being and as much as it took to transition into this new life - it's better today than it was ever before.
My favorite thing with Austin right now: He'll see me laying in bed with the covers pulled up to my chin and he says, "Mama, sleeping. Sleep with mama." Then he crawls into bed with me, pulls the covers over himself, we snuggle. He'll reach over and touch my nose, "Mama's nose." We cuddle more and then he says, "I go night-night." Love. Love.
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People DO tell us. We just don't believe it. I liken parenthood to trying to explain colors to a person who has never seen before. You can understand the CONCEPT and even empathize about what it must be like to see, but until you've been immersed in the light, you just can't truly GET it.
I'm feeling all deep today. :)
One of the best things I ever heard when we had our first child was "welcome to the club." At the time, I thought "sure, what's she know, I'm a cool, aware guy. I know about parenting." Now I can only laugh at myself. How little I knew and how much I continue to learn!
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