Mark the date down! Last night, Nyla slept through the WHOLE night! After 6.5 weeks of middle of the night feedings, our girl slept for almost 8 hours in a row! Success! I'm not going to get all presumptive and think that she'll do this tonight, too. But what a wonderful feeling...SLEEP!
But alas, we couldn't just have an uneventful night. The only thing that woke us up last night was our yellow Lab, Okie, barfing. If it's not one thing, it's another. I'm beginning to think that that's a mantra for parenting. If it's not one thing, it's another. If Nyla's acting normal, Okie's barfing. If Okie is just relaxing, Nyla is pooping out her pants. If Nyla's not pooping out her pants, she's barfing in my face. Sigh...that's parenthood I guess.
On another note, tomorrow is my first day back to work. Yesterday, I think I was fully depressed. I didn't want to do anything, I didn't want to talk to anybody. I just wanted to be with my girl. Even Paul noticed that I wasn't feeling myself. The thought of being away from Nyla is just sad to me. I know every working mother feels this way. Thankfully, I'm a teacher and so I only have a few weeks until summer vacation. Three months with my sweet girl will be wonderful! I'm looking forward to being back in the classroom; I wish I was working only halftime though. Hmmm...I can make it. School is out June 9th so I only have a month.
Lastly, I'm pretty excited to celebrate my first Mother's Day this weekend! Last year I was able to semi-celebrate because we had Okie. Yes, I am a mother to a dog. :) But this year, I've got an actual human child and so I get to celebrate being her mama! My aunt sent me some beautiful roses yesterday and that made me feel quite special! Thank you Aunt Tere Sue!
What would I like for Mother's Day? Let's see: a 5-hour nap, a glass of champagne, snuggles with my girls, a backrub from my husband, another 5-hour nap.
Oh, I'd also like for Nyla to sleep 8 hours again. :)
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