{"id":112,"date":"2007-10-04T16:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T23:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-10-04T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T23:20:56","slug":"has-it-really-been-2-months-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/has-it-really-been-2-months-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Has It Really Been 2 Months Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1131\/1485089431_a5e287fa9f.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"Dimples\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 333px; height: 500px\" title=\"Dimples\" \/>I think I&#8217;m kind of in shock over here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that two months have flown by.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been so many amazing firsts&#8230;..although if you asked me to name any, I&#8217;d be hard pressed to pull them up &#8211; just like that.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also kinda sad, &#8217;cause I&#8217;d like to squish you down and keep you little.<\/p>\n<p>Not that you are really very little at a whopping 14 pounds and 23 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>I think what I mean is that I&#8217;d like to stop time.\u00c2\u00a0 2 months has whizzed by, and pretty soon you&#8217;re going to be graduating and moving out and getting married, and it will have only been yesterday that I gave birth.<\/p>\n<p>So much has happened in these past two months, and a WHOLE lot has not happened.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, I can&#8217;t do EVERYTHING!\u00c2\u00a0 Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>I mean I thought I was freakin&#8217; amazing and could do everything.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought that I&#8217;d just add this one little baby, and I&#8217;d still be able to do everything that I was doing before he was born.<\/p>\n<p>Ha!<\/p>\n<p>HA! HA!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky if I get one thing done in a day, and even if I manage to get one thing done, and still have actual day light hours to do another thing on my list&#8230;&#8230;.I haven&#8217;t the energy.\u00c2\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ve complained about being tired, but when I&#8217;m rocking the little bugger to sleep at 12:23am<em> while Jon is in bed sleeping, and then up at 5:47am wandering the house trying to get my little darling to burp so he&#8217;ll just settle down, and Jon is still sleeping&#8230;oh no&#8230;..wait a sec&#8230;..the alarm just went off&#8230;.must be 6am&#8230;..and now he&#8217;s just hit the snooze button&#8230;&#8230;.are you kidding me?\u00c2\u00a0 Just get up and rock your son&#8230;..I&#8217;ve been up 3 times already and my hips are killing me &#8217;cause I need to make a chiro appt&#8230;&#8230;.and there goes the alarm again&#8230;.and he&#8217;s snoozed it AGAIN&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;and now 15 million snoozes later it&#8217;s 6:52am, and the older kids are stirring and I might as well just get up &#8217;cause the baby still hasn&#8217;t&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;oh, there&#8217;s the burp&#8230;..and now\u00c2\u00a0he&#8217;s sleeping, and I&#8217;m too annoyed to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll be able to get a nap this afternoon&#8230;..yah, that&#8217;s right.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to have a nap&#8230;&#8230;aaaawwwwhhhh, who am I kidding&#8230;I can hardly ever nap&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.this is definately a 2 shot Americano morning.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, did I just muse all of that out loud?\u00c2\u00a0 Welcome to my world!\u00c2\u00a0 We could call the theme tired and frustrated&#8230;.mostly &#8217;cause I&#8217;m tired!\u00c2\u00a0 Add a 14 pound mamma&#8217;s boy to that mix, and it&#8217;s a good time, people!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m serious about the not accomplishing anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, for example, I had a list (<em>I can make lists while I&#8217;m nursing, so I know exactly what and how much I AM NOT accomplishing. &#8211; Yah Me!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a real boost to the ol&#8217; ego to\u00c2\u00a0make a record of what you can&#8217;t get done and to watch it just get longer and longer.\u00c2\u00a0 So much fun!<\/em>) and I needed to go shopping.\u00c2\u00a0 I hit Costco and Superstore, and made it home before I had to nurse.\u00c2\u00a0 I needed to go to about 5 other stores to pick up 1 item from each of them, and before Josiah, that wouldn&#8217;t have been a big deal, but taking the baby out of his car seat for 5 minutes and then putting him back in it is frustrating and takes twice as long, and seeing as he doesn&#8217;t really like his car seat in the first place&#8230;it&#8217;s just hell all around, and so I don&#8217;t go unless I have someone with me who can stay in the car with the baby&#8230;&#8230;.yes, I AM A DIVA&#8230;I need an entourage and I&#8217;m okay with that.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, I get home, Jon helps to unload the van while I nurse Josiah, and then there is one last trip to make &#8217;cause I forgot to take a deposit to the bank.\u00c2\u00a0 Stupid, sleep deprived me!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m tired and parked in front of my computer covered in barf&#8230;..cold wet barf&#8230;.you should try it&#8230;.smells lovely!\u00c2\u00a0 I should have started dinner, but I haven&#8217;t and now I have to scrap what I had planned &#8217;cause there isn&#8217;t time, and I have to come up with a quicker meal &#8217;cause I only have half an hour&#8230;.maybe we&#8217;ll have chilli for the 3rd time in a week.\u00c2\u00a0 Won&#8217;t the kids love that?<\/p>\n<p>I have so much more to say and no more time&#8230;&#8230;maybe I&#8217;ll be back later tonight, but probably not&#8230;..maybe tomorrow&#8230;but don&#8217;t hold out too much hope for that either&#8230;&#8230;..until whenever&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>ps.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a random set of pics up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll be explaining some of them over the next couple of <strike>days<\/strike> posts.\u00c2\u00a0 You can get a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/sets\/72157602262095270\/\" title=\"Random pics\">sneek peek here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m kind of in shock over here. It&#8217;s hard to believe that two months have flown by.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been so many amazing firsts&#8230;..although if you asked me to name any, I&#8217;d be hard pressed to pull them up &#8211; just like that.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also kinda sad, &#8217;cause I&#8217;d like to squish you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/has-it-really-been-2-months-already\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Has It Really Been 2 Months Already?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-josiah","category-just-crap","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}