Well... life just keeps on chugging. Somehow between work and baby... I seem not to "have it all" but... I am working on it. I want to have endless hours with cora, I want my relationship to be strong with matt like it was before spud arrival, I want to enjoy summertime camping with our little family, I want to be a wonderful nurse, and I want some free time to myself perhaps to blog with a glass of wine. Some time I want to have
all of this. How do you working moms do it?
How timely. I just finished reading this article..."Why Women Still Can't Have It All."
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If you read the whole thing you won't have endless hours with Cora (it's quite long)...but it may help. Sounds like your timing is perfect - you have managed so much at a young age...you should be very proud of yourself!
It all comes together. Just let your expectations be a little less :) I find my quiet time during nap time, even if that is nap time for myself. I have decided to just try and blog once a week and my time with the boys is every other minute. I think when you have a baby your relationship with your spouse changes and it takes some time to figure it out again. You do have it all if you think about it, a beautiful baby, family, husband and career!
ReplyDeleteIt's actually a lie. No one has it all. It's just our perceptions of others who SEEM to have it all and do it looking like supermodels. You do your best and laugh at the rest.
ReplyDeleteI still struggle with this and Landon is 7 months old now.
ReplyDeleteIt will get better. Do you work three days a week? That's what I'm doing and it's working out really well with my toddler G. It will just get better. You are still learning how to juggle the baby with the rest of your life! Soon it will feel like second nature. I know, "soon it will get better" is the lamest of new mom advice...but it really is true, I've found. I guess I'm lucky, because I started nursing school when G was two months, and returned to work at three months, so all that turbulent school/working/breastfeeding/adjusting happened all at once. Now that I'm out of school, it just feels like a breeze! But it will get easier, especially after about six months =)
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