How do Mommys do it!!!

Okay having one child is a challenge, all the new changes, learning to forget about yourself and focusing completely on another. Having two is very different, I am not saying its tremendously harder actually for me it has been a very smooth transition. I even talk about WHEN we will have another not IF we will have another (I think at least two more.) BUT there are a few things that I was not warned about when you add one more. Like...


Grocery shopping is my number one complainant. How do you do it with a two year old and a newborn? I have ask many experienced mothers this question and I seem to get similar responses "Wait until your husband gets home to do it!" Well trying to get everything done in one day, trying to be Super Mom, I on many occasions have tried the multiple grocery store trip until a few weeks ago...




I had my list of groceries and 3 stores to hit to get the best saving. Fry's was okay, on to Sam's where the only major complaint was what fruit snacks Brin could get. Last but not least Walmart "price matching" so this takes a bit longer. I try to put all breakables, and smash-ables upfront with Owen and all else goes in the back with the two year old but I ran out of room when I got to the back of the store for the eggs. It should be okay to put the eggs in the back with Brin RIGHT! She minds most of the time and know better RIGHT?! All I have to do is tell her not to touch RIGHT? WRONG!!! by the time I walked from the back of the store to check out I was missing three eggs, one full egg and two insides. Not to mention at this point Owen is starving and Brin has pulled a Houdini move and now has a piece of gum in her mouth. Did I fail to tell you I was trying to be on a strict budget and was not buying the "Good" bread this time because it was $2 dollars more and now I will be buying a $2 pack of yucky fruity gum. Okay, so I learned my lesson. Wait for Justin to come home, or just one grocery store at a time. No more three hour trips.





The next one is laundry. Any logical person would assume one more tiny person wouldn't make double the laundry RIGHT? WRONG imagine that this tiny under 15 pound being throws up on himself and anyone around him literally ALL through the day. Yes that is our Little Man Mr. Owen himself. He is the biggest spiters I have met. I am surprised he gains any weight at all. But he is not starving look at those chunky beautiful thighs. Mommy LOVES your THIGHS!!! I feel like all I do is feed him and do his laundry.





Last Comment, no one could have explained how deeply you can love this new being just as much in hours or days that you do our others that you have been with for years. How strange that realization is. What a blessing they truly are.


I guess that all you experienced mothers may just not tell us everything because the GOOD times definitely out weight the FRUSTRATING times. So not to discourage motherhood at all.