Parenting, alone time.

My kids are with my mom, my husband is working tonight, and I finally have some “alone time”!

But, hold on, who’s that in the crib? Oh right, the newborn!

Being a mom to newborn number 3 is a stark contrast to my days as a first-time mom… time ’alone’ now really translates to time ’alone with the baby’. I remember being a first time mom, and needing to spend time ‘alone’… it was really hard to take care of a baby.

Upon reflection, I don’t think that it was hard to take care of the baby, I think the hard part was adjusting to the fact that now my life is no longer my own… Here is this little person who depends on me for all his needs, who needs me for comfort, who can sometimes only be pacified by me… that was the most responsibility I ever had!

Today, my newborn is a source of comfort for me, I hold him when I am ready to relax, I play with him for my entertainment… Now, my newborn is my stress-relief.

Three children make ’alone-time’ a little impossible! But at least now I am not wishing that my baby is growing up faster than he needs to, I am appreciating the fact that he can’t sit up yet, than he can’t crawl yet, that he can’t walk yet, that he can’t talk yet, that all he needs is milk… well, you get the picture!