Disclaimer: I downloaded the blogger app... So I'm typing this on my phone. I don't have time to sit at the computer now that I'm back at work so unless I stop giving assignments that need graded, this blog will only get updated if I can multitask and blog while feeding Ky.
In the 65 days Ky has been in our lives, I have learned a lot:
The Emotional:
1- I never knew it was possible to love someone this much. I love my husband so much it's ridiculous but this love is different.
2- having a child makes it easier for me to understand how much God loves me, which is also ridiculous.
3-a lot of people told me I wouldn't work as hard at work and I'd be running out the door to get him as soon as the bell rang. While I did that on day 1, I've been working 6:45-4:20, picking him up, coming home and feeding him and then working again for an hour or an hour and a half at night. I have the desire not to work as hard but I can't bring myself to do so (and I'm not sure I even know how). So for as long as I'm teaching, I'll be giving it my 100%.
4-picking him up from day care is worse than dropping him off. It's then that I realize I am paying someone to watch him while I watch other people's kids. (ok, I am teaching them French, not babysitting, but when you teach classes with large amounts of freshmen boys you spend a good portion of the period on classroom management.)
The practical/not as serious:
1- I want to hold him all.the.time. This means I quickly learned the value of wearing your baby (currently using and love the Moby Wrap), having a device that has Internet access that I can easily access (I think I've used our real computer like 3 times since he was born)
2- taking a meal to a new mom is one of the best things you can do. I have been taking new moms meals for the past four years but never realized how much of a blessing doing so is. I am so thankful to all of you who bought us gift cards to restaurants or made something. And a huge thank you to those of you who brought me a second meal to help me survive being back at work.
3- I was right when I suspected that if I wasn't a napper before having a baby, I wouldn't become one after having one. Sleep when the baby sleeps... Ha. Props to those of you that are good at napping. I am an accidental, not an intentional napper. Put me in a car or in front of the tv and I might just fall asleep. When Ky does sleep, I do things I can't do while holding him. Makes sense to me :)
4- The iPhone is the greatest invention ever for a mom.I feel like it is my own little robot. From this device I can: call, text, take great pics and videos and easily share them, play my family and friends in scrabble and draw something, listen to my music, read my daily devotional, check and answer my work emails, surf the web, create Facebook albums, update this blog, renew the library books I don't have time to read, google whatever is freaking me out about Ky to find out if it's normal... And the list goes on. Let me just say that when you spend 1.5-3.5 hours of your day feeding your kid, it is awesome to be able to accomplish a few things. When I'm not using it, I am praying. Another good (actually a better) use of feeding time.
