Baby Girl wakes up between 6:15
and 6:45. I groan at how early it is and
then I get up to go to the bathroom while BJ goes in and collects the
baby. He brings her into our bed and
holds her until I come out of the bathroom.
I climb back in bed and she just about breaks her neck to come over and
snuggle with me. The first few times we
did this she fell back to sleep for anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes. That was awesome but didn’t last too long.
We lay there for 15 to 30
minutes…just snuggling and hugging and talking.
She’ll point to things and I’ll tell her what they are, she’ll spring up
and laugh and then fall down on me again.
I have to practically beg her to give daddy some snuggles, too. She has turned into quite the mama’s girl in
the mornings.
We eventually get up and I
change her diaper and we head downstairs.
I grab her milk out of the fridge and we turn on the TV and snuggle up
and watch one 30-minute cartoon. Then I
pass her off to BJ and go in the kitchen to make her breakfast. She is wise to this and has started coming in
the kitchen and getting under my feet.
Stinker.
While she’s eating, I clean
the kitchen from the night before (I go on cleaning strike Friday nights
because I’m tired and lazy and just want to do nothing) and grab a quick bite
to eat.
After she eats I leave her in
the living room to play with BJ while I get dressed and ready for the day. She usually fills her diaper at this point so
one of us will change her and then I’ll get her dressed. By this time I’m about to start running around
like a chicken with my head cut off because somehow time always FLIES by when I
think I’m doing a good job of staying on track.
I pack up the diaper bag and
load it and my purse and phone into the car, get her shoes on and rush out the
door…late as usual. Where are we going
in such a rush, you ask? We go to story
time at the library on Saturday mornings.
It’s awesome. We usually show up
right as it’s starting but I’ve actually gotten a little bit better at getting
us out of the house on time. We only
live about 7 or 8 minutes from the library so you would think I could get us
there on time.
I love story time because it
is something we can do together for years to come. She loves going. She dances and plays and acts silly and
cuddles with me. She used to be the
youngest in attendance but more toddlers and babies have started coming. I’m pretty sure I’m the oldest mother there
but I don’t really care about that. What
matters is that we do this together and that she learns to love books and
reading and singing and dancing as much as I do.
Story time is one of the few
activities that occur on weekends for toddlers.
It’s almost impossible to find something for us to do on Saturday. Almost everything that our county offers
takes place during the week and during the day.
Just about everything is geared toward the stay at home mom. This is great because I know that stay at
home moms need activities to keep their kids busy and themselves sane. The problem with that is that we working moms
struggle to find things to do on the weekends.
Baby Girl would be just as happy to stay home and play all day and take
TV breaks but I can’t do that. I’m a
mover and a shaker on Saturdays so I need to get out of the house. Sunday is a different story. I’m perfectly happy to lounge around and not
do anything on Sunday. But Saturday
mornings…those mornings are the highlight of my weekend. I’m sure I’m more excited to go to the
library than Baby Girl is right now. I think I'm more enthusiastic about these things because I never thought I'd get to do them. I never thought I'd be a mom at the library so I'm sure I go overboard with the dancing and singing and such. That's ok...she's too young to realize that I'm probably embarrassing her. LOL
So yeah, I went from sleeping
in on Saturday mornings to being woken up before the sun comes up and I couldn’t
be happier about it. I love our Saturday
morning routine and I hope it’s something that we can continue for years to
come.
