First I’ll start with the 4x4 goals and I have done surprisingly well!
Being a connected mommy has been hard but the most rewarding think I have done. I can gladly say that I have accomplished everything I have set out to do. T is now a beautiful, smart, funny, laughing, rolling, solids eating, still breast feeding baby girl! She amazes me every day. I fall more and more in love with her every day, it is honestly awesome. I’m not kidding when I say that she is an absolute joy… every single day.
As for being a better wife….. that one is tough. Managing money together is easy because we never have any! However, we now have savings which we have had little of in the past! I listen to NPR at least an hour a day so I have something to talk about, but there is a lot to talk about lately in life so we are actually never out of topics. As for having fun… IT’S HARD! I’m wiped at the end of my day and so is D for that matter. The stress levels have been upped in our family recently so fun is a fluid concept between D and I. However, we LOVE our weekends with T. Art museums, the Zoo, malls, the pool, you name it we do it as a family and that give us the most amazing sense of joy and calm in our world full of chaos.
Becoming a rockstar has been a BLAST! I did graduate in May. The best moment was walking across the stage, knowing that T was watching. I know she won’t remember, but long before she was even a glimmer in my eye, I was in school for her. And now I’m done and when the time is right, I will go back to work as a rockstar social worker! I actually have lost 15lbs not because of a diet for me, but because of one for T. At 6 months T was diagnosed with the D protein allergy meaning no dairy, soy whey or casein for mom! Since soy is literally in everything, I dropped the weight rather quickly, but that’s for another blog! I never did get those 3 nights to study with my camera, but I have been working really hard to learn. I have over 3500 pictures of T. Nough said! As for reading more, I read A LOT of parenting books! A LOT of parenting books.
On the domestic goddess front I’m 2 and 2. I have actually meal planned every meal for months now! I do cook a new meal once a week if not more. However keeping a house organized is no longer on my to do list because it’s NOT gonna happen! Most days, at some point, it looks like Babies R Us puked in my living room! And stock piling isn’t on my mind because it isn’t winter anymore.
Now that I’m not in school and T is on a (somewhat!) schedule I have more time. Who needs to clean and do laundry when there are blogs to write!
