What Do I Do Now?
Thursday, 13th January 2011. Filed in Family and friends. No Comments »It’s an eerie feeling when your child sleeps during the day on his own, when it’s been so long since he’s done it. I feel a little unsettled, a little giddy, and a little like a deer caught in headlights all at once. (Oh my god, what do I DO now?)
On our way home from baby clinic, I pushed the noodle up the hill, babbling to him and listening to him babble and shake his jingle bells back, until he fell asleep right as we got two steps from our front door (always happens). I figured pushing him into the house would wake him up. I can never count on him to stay asleep if the stroller or the car or the chair or my body’s not moving. But, today we’re going on half an hour. It’s kind of funny really, because I just had a discussion with the baby nurse about our struggles for the rock-less, sling-less daytime nap, and she suggested, among other things, cutting out the morning nap.
There is no way I am going to wake him up to cut out the morning nap today!
I sat there staring at him a minute, trying to figure out what to do next. I delicately unzipped his sweater and pulled his hat halfway off his head, in my head stuttering out a list of things I could do. When I am wrapped up in caring for him, there’s always a load of things on my mind that I wish I could do, but now that I have a chance, I am stuck on what to do next.
So, I let habit take over and turned on the computer. I logged on, checked some email and blogs and then thought “aha! I could blog myself.”
But, as you can see I didn’t really have very much to say.
So you got this post.
Sorry!