As you probably gathered, my life has changed completely since the baby arrived. Longtime readers will remember the days where I woke up, worked, came home, drank more than was safe or reasonable, involved myself in drama I never wanted nor needed, and repeated the process over and over again. Now I'll give you a tasted of what's it's like to be Wiwille today:6:30am: Wife wakes me up and announces the baby is up. Groggily go into the kitchen, make a bottle, and get other items ready for the wife to do her motherly duties. Go back to sleep. Wake up again fifteen minutes later to let the dogs out.
7am: Wash used bottle. Get up and get ready for the gym. Go to gym and workout while watching bad morning news shows.
7:45am: Go home and shower.
8:30am: Sit down and log into work. Let the dogs out. Make breakfast and coffee.
9:30am: Wife announces baby needs attending to. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Feed and change baby if wife needs a break.
10am: Wash used bottle. Log back into work. Attend a meeting and pray the baby will sleep through it.
10:30am: Let the dogs out.
11:45am: Log back into work. Try to complete a task.
12pm: Go grab lunch for you and the wife.
12:15pm: Start to eat lunch, but baby needs another bottle. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Feed and change baby if wife needs a break. Spend the rest of the hour with baby, because it's kind of awesome to do so.
1pm: Wash used bottle. Log back into work. Try to complete a task. Have television playing in the background.
2p: Make snack. Let dogs out. Throw in a load of laundry.
2:15p: Log back into work. Try to complete a task.
3p: Wife announces baby needs to eat. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Feed and change baby if wife needs a break.
3:30p: Wash used bottle. Log back into work. Try to complete a task.
4p: Blog. Fold laundry.
4:30p: Ask wife about dinner. Cook or go out and get said dinner.
5p: Sit down to eat said dinner. Wife announces baby needs to eat. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Feed and change baby if wife needs a break. Watch dinner get cold.
5:30p Eat remaining dinner. Log back into work to see if any last minute items need attending to. Watch television with the wife.
7:p: Let dogs out.
7:30p: Wife announces baby needs to eat. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Feed and change baby if wife needs a break.
8p: Wash used bottle. Do dishes. Go back to watching television with wife.
9:30p: Wife and baby go to sleep. Go play video games.
10p: Let the dogs out.
10:15p: Go back to playing video games.
10:30p: Wife announces baby needs to eat. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Feed and change baby if wife needs a break.
11p: Wash used bottle. Turn off Xbox. Go to sleep.
1a: Wife announces baby needs to eat. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Thankfully the wife lets you go back to sleep while doing said motherly duties.
3:30a: Wife announces baby needs to eat. Make bottle and gather items for the wife to do her motherly duties. Thankfully the wife lets you go back to sleep while doing said motherly duties.
6:30a: Wife announces...you get the idea.
I wouldn't change my new found life for anything.
"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other." - Edgar Watson Howe
5 comments:
Sounds like you have your hands full...much love to you and the gang.
Cxx
I'm going to refrain from sharing my schedule with the kids :) I feel your pain
Just don't get the dogs and the baby mixed up.
You forgot "Bond with wife over lack of sleep and fantastically cute daughter..." ; )
I love that you get to work from home, bonus!!
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