Current mood:

excited

Mommy'n'Daddy'n'Baby makes 3 in the Family
Having a baby is the most amazing thing I've ever gotten to do. He's so wonderful.

I'm such a mommy -I've cut back my hours and wrapped up my business for the year, so I'm almost a dedicated stay at home mom and I've definitely go mommybrain. I am terminally chipper and have developed a streaming monologue that accompanies almost every part of my day. I think I talk to little W even in my sleep.

We moved barely 3 weeks before he was born in to a 3rd floor apt. with 2 bedrooms. Everyone who saw us was all worried -and I suppose it did look pretty scary. I got pretty large with the last 2 months. But I'd been running my business all summer, so I hadn't lost any mobility and I was in fine shape. I didn't bound up the stair like I might have without him and many things I couldn't pick up and carry because the belly was physically in the way, but with much help from some fantastic friends we got moved in just a couple of days. We were not quite entirely unpacked when he was born. But, we were all ready for him :).

Big switch from our duplex with the back yard, but we have more space and a fireplace! It's awesome. We only got a 6 mo lease, though, because in Dec we're moving out to my mom's new property! We're buying property just around the corner from hers and we're building a house there for ourselves while we squat with mom. Our house will go up next spring and we will move eihter next fall or the year after. I'm so excited. We'll have our own home on 5 acres with timber and lots of arable land.

A got a call the day W was born with an offer for a better job -they gave him a much better salary, room for advancement, and benefits! He took the offer and spent the first mo. of W.'s life enduring his old boss trying desparately to keep him, while berating him constantly for being disloyal and untrustworthy by abandoning him -it was not too pretty. In the end his boss got it under control and A just quietly let it all go so the parted on good terms. A spent the second mo. of W.'s life driving an hr to DM and back to train in the training store. With the 10 hr shifts, A was really worn out.

A's message to all the kids out there is this: Don't have a baby, move, and change to a new job at the same time. Try to do these things one at a time.

A is my Hero. He was the best birth partner ever! I really couldn't have done it without him. He was my champion when we were moving -there was so much I couldn't take care of -he stepped in and picked up the slack. Since W's been born, A has even been helping with housework to keepthis place clean for W despite 10 hr shifts trying to get his feet under him at a new job.

Now he has FFXII, though and a big easy chair to lounge in when he plays. Things are finally relatively settled, and we'll have only a brief respite before we have to pack it all up and get resettled out at Mom's. Then we go gang busters on our own digs. When Will is 2 hopefully we will be permanently situated :). Won't that be novel? We will never have plans to move again. I've never in my life lived anywhere that I didn't intend to move out of. Even my parent's house -I grew up knowing I would move out after highschool.

Now I get to keep the things I build. I get to change my home and not worry that I'm passing it on to someone else. I get to run long-term experiments in the back yard and not worry that the landlord will flip out. I get to be in charge of how the land is treated. I can make things and build things and knock them down if I don't like them and try again! I get to stay.

My baby will be able to just run his little legs off safe and snuggly in his big back yard. I can sunbathe naked :)