How do you juggle two little people two full time jobs two different childcare settings and try and live life at the same time ? And why is it every other thirty something manages to read the weekend papers and therefore knows 'where' to holiday, what the solution is to the latest international crisis and is tweeting blogging and cyber living like email is soooooo 1990 ? Can you believe that I have only just got an iphone, and am writing my first ever blog ?? How does everyone else have time to do this stuff and maintain a serene appearance ?
I am lucky - my fellow bloggers are dealing with multiples of small people who require feeding every couple of hours and who are also averse to sleeping through the night. I am not a first timer so have an idea of the chaos that will ensue for the next three years, and to top it off, my wee one, the oldest baba in the group, is now feeding 4 hourly and sleeping for 11 hours at night in her cot (with obligatory middle class grobag), with minimal crying at any given time. (This is a confessional as I hadn't the heart to tell my fellow bloggers this when I saw them yesterday). And yet here I am still sleep deprived because I insist on doing things like writing children's thank you christmas cards in the middle of the night and ordering my supermarket online shop as we have run out of toilet rolls and it is simply the end of the world.
My point is this - I can't keep up - with anything. How do other people ???
I have started to think about my return to work and it fills me with dread. Not because I don't want to go back to work - quite the opposite actually. I am looking forward to reinstating that part of my identity. The stomach churning worry comes from knowing that life is about to get about 100x more complicated than it already is - and that is when I am on maternity leave - ha ! I know I have a newborn but the truth is despite the sick (she is a sicky up milk babe) she is no trouble ever since we got through the first colicky 8 weeks.
Do we all put ourselves under this pressure or am I more gullible than most ?? Answers on a blog post please.... Over and out.
Absolutely!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine was coming over yesterday for coffee and exclaimed with utter horror that my house was so clean and tidy. I was mortified! I'd been telling her how hard it was to juggle a colicky baby and tantruming teething 2 year old and somehow I'd managed to find the time to keep the house pristine.
Hmm... maybe I'd cope better if I didn't panic run round with the hoover and duster (number two in sling number one "helping" with mini hoover) before people arrived!
Also, I am elated for you that number two is sleeping so well and is so delightful. I know how hard the first few weeks for you and, not only am I really pleased you've been given the break but it means there is light at the end of the tunnel, it gives me hope that this hell will end soon! Bring it on!!!!
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