(Lottie brushing her teeth, may 6th 2013)
Welcome back to Lottie's world. I started this blog with the best of intentions. To write every week, keep my family and friends and anyone who wanted to be involved in Lottie's life, updated and in the loop. I wrote in my last blog that people forget to tell you "Mommies never sleep." I think another important thing people forget to tell you, is you will never have enough time. It takes such an effort to keep the kind of records of your child that you'd like to. That's really my post topic for the day. I carry my babybook with me almost everywhere, and I'm three or four milestones behind. I take pictures like a madwoman, and every time my computer battery dies, my heart freezes thinking somehow this is how all of my photos will vanish, because I've yet to back them up. My TIME disappears in slow increments. I lose an hour to playing with the baby in the back yard. I lose twenty minutes when I least expect it, because I was doing a puppet show. Just now, as I'm writing, I lost two minutes to watching Lottie talk to herself in her highchair. I blinked, and my daughter grew to be a year old. TIME is a mommy's secret weapon. Time is what we all need more of , are running out of, and SHOULD be keeping sacred. I value every minute with my daughter, I miss her when she sleeps. I clock her naps and her bathtime, how much tv I should be letting her watch vs. what I actually permit. TIME is what I've had so little of this year, to record Lotties life, because I was watching her live it.
( Lottie getting caught sneaking out of her pants May, 2013)
But I'm back. her to take time, to update on Lottie's life, and my ventures into motherhood. Here to take time to say the honest things they DONT tell you, about helping a constipated child finish pooping, cleaning vomit out of the bottom of a pack and play you can't put in the washing machine, curing sore baby teeth without a sugar overload (use an unopened, frozen otter pop as a teething ring, perforate the top so a little bit of fruit-like sucrose seeeps through to keep her chewing.). I'm apologizing because I lost my time last year, and I'm not apologizing because it couldn't have been better spent.
Please, Join me as I dive back into my blogging roots, because I'm ready to share all of my motherhood woes and ideas and solutions with you, and I'm CERTAIN It will be worth your TIME.
Welcome back mommies, I'm happy to have you! <3 Lotties Mommy
