Yep, that is what I feel like for this brief moment in time. I don’t know how long it will last, but I am going to revel in this moment. Most nights I feel like I can’t do this mothering thing and all that it entails. I am exhausted, and frankly, sometimes mad that my littlest needs to eat four times in four hours between 7 and 11pm. But tonight – at this precise moment – I feel good… like maybe I can do it. It is 8:00, and this is what I know:
- voted – check
- played at park (nursed Ellie while there… not sure about public breastfeeding, but sometimes it is worth it)– check
- ate lime chicken tacos from the crockpot (really fast before Ellie had to eat again) – check
- cleaned up kitchen – check
- gave two girls a bath – check
- got two girls ready for bed – check
The best part… Ellie went to bed first, which meant that I could snuggle Madison and read her stories during her snack time. I love it.
She was looking at her hands tonight. She identified the pinkie, as she has done before. Then, was going over the other fingers, which she has done before. When we talked about her ring finger, this was the conversation
- Madison: “Oh, where’s my ring?”
- Me: “I don’t know. Where is it?”
- Madison: “I left it at that boy’s house”
- Me: “You did?”
- Madison: “I’ll get it. Maybe later.”
Her memory is good, but she expanded it. She likes to look at my wedding ring. I tell her that is what her daddy gave me to tell me he will love me forever, and that one day she might meet a boy that will give her a ring to and love her forever. This was her interpretation – she left it at his house :) I love it!
Here are a few pictures from the last week: walking her baby in our neighborhood, hair pretties on Ellie, Madison’s dance party outfit (from behind), Ellie peeking out from the car seat (which always makes me smile)
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