8.5 Hours of Sleep?!

I'm going to make this is a super quick one, pretty much because I don't have much time! I remember in the first couple of weeks thinking what in the world?! I'm never going to get anything done, I'm never going to get any sleep, what did we sign up for?! A few weeks later it was a little bit better and that perspective changed to I'm never going to get anything done to when will I ever have time to work on my projects? A few weeks later it was better again and wondering when will I ever get out of this house. A few weeks later it was how will I ever get us to daycare on time and any sort of routine... you see the pattern here? Every time you're in a season, it seems deep and hard and like you're never going to get out of it... but you do! You adjust, you learn and you grow, and you move forward.

We did a trial run at daycare for a morning on Monday when I didn't have to work - it went great. I never cried, I picked her up and she was so happy and did so good meeting her new friends! I set myself up for success for Tuesday with my full day of work (set out workout clothes, set out my shakes, made my lunch, had bags packed and clothes laid out). She smiled at Angel SO much when I dropped her off so that helped and I didn't cry again. I picked her up and she was crying, but who wouldn't be - what a big adjustment for her! I still didn't cry until later on that night when I started thinking about everything. I was EXHAUSTED. I had been up since 3am running around like crazy to get us out the door on time. I then worked an entire day of work that I hadn't done in 12 weeks! Then I came home and got everything unpacked, her settled back in at home, and prepping for the next day again, getting the house cleaned up and ready to go. I eventually just sunk into the couch and told my husband how on Earth are we going to do this? When will we ever have time to do anything at night? When will we get sleep, do we just always go to bed at 8:30pm now?! And then I remembered... we're just in this season now. It will get better. We will find our routine, it doesn't happen over night. 

I woke up this morning, after she slept another 8.5 hours, so happy and grateful that we're in this season. I want to soak it all up knowing we will never get this season back again. I will cherish those moments coming home and snuggling her a little tighter after being gone all day. I will wake up in the mornings happy because we get to do this thing called life together, and figure it out together, knowing that one day we'll look back on this and be in the next season wondering how we'll get through it! 

You got this Mamas!! Be proud of all the things you accomplish, because it's a heck of a lot!! (and love on those daycare providers because man we are blessed, there's no way I could ever do that job so I'm so happy we found someone to love our baby girl as much as we do to help her learn and grow.)