5am Second feed of the day done. First nappy changed. Husband is about to leave for work. I’m hoping for some more sleep, although it’s not looking likely…
6am Sleeping...
7am Yes! We managed more sleep! On to feed no.3 of the day, feeling more awake this time. I’ve fed the cats and made myself my first cuppa of the day.
8am Laundry. Hoping to get two loads done today. Also, vacuuming, ironing, and planting some violas in hanging baskets. We’ll see… (it took me three weeks to get those violas planted!).
9am Giving Socks the Boy Cat some much needed attention. Both cats are a bit neglected on the affection front these days. They seem to have accepted Bub, they only disappear when she really cries, which thankfully isn’t often.
10am One of us bathed and dressed.
11am Feeding again. I’m still not dressed and have ticked nothing off my to-do list, but I have consumed four cups of tea and a chocolate hobnob. This is alright by me.
12pm Just sat down to feed again after a walk around the garden to see the sunflowers. I want another cuppa but I’ll have to wait.
1pm Husband is working really close to home today so could pop home for lunch and cuddles.
2pm Bub has fallen asleep after her feed and I don’t want to move, so husband has made me another cuppa and left me with a snack before going back to work.
3pm Sleeping...
4pm We both had a nap, now Bub is feeding again. Today’s to-do has gone well and truly out of the window. I doubt I’ll achieve much from this point. I can try again tomorrow…
5pm Busy doing something.
6pm Meal prep. Pasta Bake, again. I'm relying on easy meals, or my stash of batch cooked frozen meals.
7pm Daddy’s home (much earlier than usual for this time of year)
So this was August 21st 2021. 12 nappies changed, 10 cups of tea consumed, 68 pages of my book read, and I lost count of how many times I fed Bub. An ordinary day in our new life as a family.
Thanks To Louisa for hosting. Taking part in Photo An Hour is a lovely way to remember the small details of a specific time in life, I often look back over these posts and enjoy the memories, however ordinary. The next Photo An Hour is 18th September, you can follow my day on Instagram, or I'll post here in the weeks that follow.
I promised myself that I would take part in every single one this year. I knew parenthood would limit my ability to post regularly. I don't want to stop blogging entirely and this is a great way to keep me going.
You'll notice I've slipped quietly back into your comments as if I'd never been away. I've figured out an issue I was having using my phone to comment on blogs, so now I have the ability to read and comment during one of the many feeds I do in a day. It feels good to have that little bit of contact back again.
I hope you are well, and getting some normality back to life after lockdown.
September always seems like the start of something new, a new season, a new school year (even though I left school decades ago the feeling still remains), so I've decided to set an intention for the month.
Since Bub arrived life has been very different. I knew that, no matter what people told me or how much I prepared for life with a baby, I could never really be imagine what life would be like. Those first few weeks went by in a blur as we found our feet.
I knew I wouldn't be taking on any design work for at least three months, and even as we approach that time frame I'm not convinced I could take on any work even if I wanted to. But what I would like to do is make progress - on anything, on everything. So that's my intention, my word for the month - Progress.
I have so many things to do, projects to finish, projects to start but my time is limited to bite sized chunks that fit around Bub. We're lucky that she's really quite content but even so she takes up a lot of my day (and night). She doesn't sleep much during the day, she has short naps that are already over by the time I decide what to do whilst she sleeps. I'm not complaining she's wonderful, and I love motherhood.
When I was pregnant I read a quote that went something along the lines of 'Looking after a baby is easy, it's trying to do anything else at the same that's hard', and I couldn't agree more. I know that these early baby days are limited and I'm not wishing them away, but at the same time I'm itching to tick things off my to-do list.
These days as I sit and feed her I look around and notice all the things that need doing. Pre-baby I would've just done them, now I have to wait until I have time, which is in short supply. I'm used to being able to devote time to things whether it's housework or craft projects, or work, the garden, but now I have to do things a little bit at a time, a bit here, a bit there. It's taken me a while to get my head around it, I dislike leaving something half done, but this is just how it is now.
My hospital bag still isn't fully unpacked, I need to pack away summer clothes that didn't get worn, and jumpers that I can't wear whilst breastfeeding, and find clothes that will work. I've been wearing the same three tops on rotation since Bub was born. I have maternity clothes to list on ebay and piles of things that need to go to the charity shop. The greenhouse has been neglected, I'd like to tidy it ready for Spring in the hope that I'll have a tiny bit more time then. And I'd really like to plant the violas in my hanging baskets that I purchased three weeks ago...
Whilst pregnant I had the bright idea to simultaneously decorate Bub's room (which was my office), and my new office (which was the spare room), and although the actual decorating has been done there's still a lot of stuff that needs sorting, curtains need to be chosen and hung, furniture needs to be bought, shelves need to be put up. I have piles of stuff on the landing and in the hallway just waiting for my attention. I'll do it bit by bit. This drip feed way of doing things is the only way it's going to get done.
As long as I can make even a tiny bit of progress each day, whilst taking care of Bub, and myself, I'll be happy.
There's nothing to do but to do it.
HELLO
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