First Year at Home

I have officially been at stay at home mom for a year now. As I look back on this past year, it was a lot different than what I expected and what I was used to. Doing things efficiently no longer applies. Presenting yourself professionally also no longer happens when you are toting 2 crazy kids along with you everywhere. But things slowed down and we got to sit and play together much more. And we got to spend more relaxed time together and doing things, whereas before it seemed like we had to rush to get in those small moments of spending time together. Although, there are many differences between being a stay at home mom and a working outside the home mom, some things are very similar. Such as...they still grow way too fast. You will still walk in to get them out of bed in the morning or after nap and swear they grew while they were asleep. They still do firsts when you aren't around. Whether at day care or at home with Dad for a Sat afternoon, these are usually the times when they start crawling, walking or say their first words. Time still flies by and you wonder how your baby is now one and you're planning the first birthday party. No matter how much time you spend with them, it always seems to fly by and go too fast. They still come up to you and say the craziest things and you wonder where they heard that from. And in both cases there are times when you just want to say I quit, someone else can deal with this craziness. I guess I just thought time wouldn't fly so fast if I was at home with them all day. As someone once said "The days are long but the years are short."

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Re: First Year at Home

Cathy you are so right. Here I am at my age looking back and wondering what happened to my grown babies. It was just yesterday that I tucked them in only to find now they live so far away. Enjoy every moment even the ones where you want to turn in your Motherhood license. My Mother would just smile at me in those moments and tell me that those would pass and that I would want to trade any of them for a second and she was right.

Re: First Year at Home

Soo true. Thanks for your thoughts. Enjoy what you can, forget the rest.

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