2015 October

My Plants are Dead…

My beautiful yard with lots of pretty flowers that my mom spent several days slaving over while I was 9 months pregnant and floating in the pool (true story) have died. Not all of them… but for sure all the ones in pots. Its Texas in the ~~extremely long summer~~ fall afterall, so forgetting to water your pots makes flowers die in about 24 hours. And remembering to water things every day? Not happening around here.

So my plants are dead. But my daughter and my dog are still alive and doing well, which is what really counts.

Life is a bit crazy around here. My husband took a new job which requires him to be gone for training for a while, so I’m trying to juggle keeping the house going, keeping my day job, and learning how to be a good mom, all on my own. This time in my life has given me mad respect for all the single parents out there… your job is NOT EASY. I am so lucky my time as a single parent is for a relatively short and finite time. But more than anything it has made me supremely grateful for the support network I have. I am so so lucky to have great friends and great family that help bail me out when I need it and also just help me make the load a little lighter. These last few months have had HUGE life changes and while they are all great and amazing changes, they take a certain amount of adjusting and hard work. And really, they have made me really focus on the things that are important in life. On that list and in no particular order? My daughter, my husband, my friends, my family, my faith, and getting to enjoy the now.

But do you know what’s not on that list? A perfectly clean, designed house, a finished to do list, or worrying about the future. And so while a huge part of me wants this transition time to go faster, there is another huge part that is saying “stop, enjoy these moments for what they are, relish in the fact that your child is changing every day, and that there is great beauty in the imperfection”.

I have continually in this phase of life been grateful for God’s timing, for friend’s selflessness and for just a listening ear or a shoulder to lean on. And this face makes it all worth it.

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So while my flowers have suffered, the things that are important haven’t. I am eternally grateful for that and I might just forgive myself for letting the not so important things fall to the wayside.

Filed Under: Life

Three Months!

Hello? Is this thing on? I’ve still been in my post baby blog hiatus (not really intentional… more of a necessity) and haven’t posted in a while, because things have been CRAZY. But I do want to keep up the monthly posts for Taylor and will hopefully be jumping back on the blogging train very soon… my brother and sister-in-law have been doing some AMAZING things at their new casa and I can’t wait to show you some of those.

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Milestones: Oh man, she has had a lot of milestones in the last month! She can roll over from front to back (mostly because she isn’t a fan of tummy time!), she loves to blow raspberries, she laughed, she is grasping toys much better and even reaches out for things that she wants… sort of. Right on target she moved out of her 0-3 month clothes and into 3-6 month, which made me sad to move all of her cute tiny clothes into the attic storage! 8 weeks marked the end of my maternity leave, so she started at daycare, which has gone pretty smoothly and she seems perfectly content there. Although you wouldn’t know it from her first day of school picture:

first-day-of-school She also had her first trip to the arboretum and during this month got to be much more of a social butterfly since we could go out in public post shots.

She got to go swimming for the first time… and she didn’t hate it! It did however WEAR HER OUT.

She also got baptized at our church by her Uncle Arthur and Papa Scott (my dad). It was such a sweet ceremony and she looked awfully precious!!

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Likes: My little nugget still loves to eat and is growing fast, she is over 13 lbs now! She likes holding onto fingers and standing up. She loves people, and very much dislikes being left out of a group of people. She loves to crane her neck and watch the world around her. She loves my dad, so far he’s been the only one to make her laugh, but mom-win I got it on video!

Dislikes: Being alone, having a dirty diaper (I mean seriously, who wouldn’t), shots–the first time I heard her TRULY ANGRY. She doesn’t like being cold and wet, so post-bath time isn’t very fun. She also doesn’t like when you wipe her nose.

Mom loves: her crooked smile–she now smiles whenever you smile at her and it is SO FREAKING CUTE. I love when she blows raspberries and mimics you doing things. I love that she is a pretty good sleeper and that she is a very calm, chill child!

This has been a pretty fun adventure so far, I can’t wait to see what the future holds!

Filed Under: Baby