Including, but not limited to:
- Making meals
- Eating meals
- Showering
- Cleaning
- Doing laundry
- Putting away laundry
- Doing dishes or even just one of the dishes in the sink
- Getting groceries
- Making necessary phone calls (like, business-y things, not just to family where you can hang up on them if the baby starts crying or forget words without being judged)
- Going outside
Essentially, doing even the tiniest task on top of keeping the baby healthy, dry, and fed deserves a mental pat on the back in my mind. Maybe other people are more capable, but that's where I am. My mom gave me the advice that my only job right now is to care for him and me, and I think that's the best way to look at things.
I love how this blog post just trailed off at the end. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, isn't it funny to think on election day two years ago you met Cordelia?? In another two years, Dalton will be running around and talking. He'll also sleep by himself and not need your bodily fluids for hydration and sustenance so there's your light at the end of the tunnel :)
I love everything about this post (and your explanation in the post after this). And, I'm pretty sure that 13 weeks out, I have not put any laundry away...
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