New Mommy Confessions Part II

-Any new mom you see, tell her how wonderful of a job she is doing (Even if you have no idea!).  There is nothing to tell us Mommys how we are doing so it is always nice to hear :)

-This losing hair business is no joke!  By month four when it hadn’t happened yet, I thought I would be the one and only that got around it.  It showed it’s ugly head about two weeks ago and it sucks.  There is hair everywhere!  It also doesn’t help that Charlie pulls out about 1,000 strands a day either but man, I cannot wait until this is done!

-Save ALL YOUR BOXES!  I threw away all the rock n’play, bouncer, swing, (etc) boxes away.  Why would I keep them?  I don’t ever keep things I don’t need.  WRONG!  These items are used for such a short period and then they need to be packed away.  Well how do you pack these large and oddly shaped items?  Usually in their original boxes is a great idea but I don’t have them anymore.  So sad!

-I seriously feel like I’m a much better person now that Charlie is around.  She has given me so much more patience.  I’m also wayyyyyy more laid back now (more so than I’ve ever been my whole life; your daddy thanks you sweetie :) ).

-It has blown my mind how fast you jump into parenting.  One day you are not a parent and the next day you are.  Your behaviors and mind set switches with this big change.  I was so committed to reading every book I could in order to learn how to do this whole parenting thing.  Everybody is right in saying there is nothing in the world that can prepare you for being a mom.  Somehow, you just do.  Day by day you learn and give your best to your child.  And really that is enough.

-I was given the advice of repeating the phrase, “this too shall pass” whenever things became frustrating or maybe even unbearable.  And seriously, this is spot on.  Just when you get used to something or the ease of another, your child will go and switch it up.  It may be just the day or it may be a whole week, don’t get used to anything because it will be forever changing. 

-I was very lucky in the fact I didn’t have pregnancy brain at all.  However, something happened the moment I gave birth…I have trouble recalling words.  I’ll be in the middle of a sentence and cannot finish my thought because I cannot think of a simple word like, graph.  It blows my mind!  Hopefully this won’t hang around for long (fingers crossed!).

Peace

As I was laying in bed last night, everybody was asleep besides me. It was so peacefully quiet. All I could hear was the breaths taken from my family. I could feel my husband breathing right beside of me, hear the loud breaths from my pup below me, and the muffled breaths from the monitor of our little girl. I lay there tired, but wanted to just listen to these breaths a little longer.

My husbands breathing, well you see, I've had eleven years to memorize those breaths. I know every single thing there is to know about him, including how he breaths. Laying there beside him makes me think about how thankful I am that we met so early on in life. We have grown and changed so much in the past eleven years, but we have done it together. I'm so thankful that I have my best friend laying beside me. There is nobody else I would rather navigate life with than him.

Then there is my puppy. They say there is no love like the love you have for your children. And I completely agree. However, my love for my dog has not changed a bit since having Charlotte. Brutus has given us so much over the past four years. So much love we have received from this little tiny dog. I swear he gave us the best practice ever in preparation of having a child. I cannot wait for Charlie to love Brutus as much as we do.

Lastly, I listen to my daughter taking her breaths. Everytime I pick her up from her naps and she lay half alseep on me, I try and memorize her breathing right then and there. There is something about it that makes me close my eyes and smile. It may be the way she breaths deeper or faster or louder. I'm not sure. But just like everything about her, it's perfect and I want to savor everything about our beautiful angel. It's amazing how this kind of love makes you speechless and yet filled to the brim with things you want to say all at the same time.

Tonight, I lay here so blissfully thankful and in a state of peace.

Hi, I’m Charlotte’s Mommy

Let’s talk Mommy Cards.  Heard of them?  I hadn’t until I saw the adorable idea on Pinterest a couple of years ago.  Basically, they are business cards/contact cards for Moms.  I pinned them to my “Oh-Baby” board because I thought they were such a great thing to use.  Being a new mom and first time parent, I’m always looking for situations to meet other Moms.  How easy and great is it to just hand over a simple card to exchange contact information when meeting a new mom!  Plus you look like one of those Moms who have it all together (when in reality you do not and swear you’ll never forget that one pump part when packing for work the next day only to forget it and have to run to Target so you can find some relief…seriously (ugh!) this has happened!).

I received an email that inspired me to explore tiny prints new collection of mommy contact cards. I was super excited to check them out!  Here are some of my favorites:










And my favorite that I customized…





Now I just need to find some mommy groups, play groups, etc. to meet these new moms!  Any suggestions for this?