The days are long.

3:30am wake to the sound of Owen babbling to himself over the monitor.

3:35am change diaper and nurse Owen

4:00am back to sleep for everyone

5:45am wake to my alarm clock

5:50am nudge husband awake to change diaper and bring Owen to me

6:00am nurse Owen

6:10am doze off while nursing Owen

6:25am wake to my second alarm clock and a cuddly fed baby

6:30am get dressed for work

6:50am get lunch, coffee, and pump supplies packed for work

7:10am hand Owen off to babysitter and kiss Owen and husband goodbye. Hopefully carrying some sort of breakfast.

7:30am arrive at work, check email, get papers/supplies ready for the day.

7:45am students enter classroom. Teach calendar, reading mini lesson, and check 18 folders and backpacks for notes.

9:00am drop kids off at PE/music/art. Go pump in classroom.

9:30am reply to emails

10:00am snack time with class

10:20am teach reading, math, hold small group lessons

12:55pm lunch-pump while eating, go to recess

1:55pm teach social studies or science

3:10pm sign and pack 18 folders, hug 18 students and send them home.

3:30pm carpool duty

3:50pm cleanup and go home or stay and prepare next days work

4:15pm arrive home and send babysitter home. Hold and cuddle Owen.

4:45pm play time with Owen

5:15pm rock Owen to sleep for a nap

5:45pm nurse Owen

6:00pm play time with Owen. Hopefully make dinner or husband makes dinner.

6:30pm feed Owen real food. Eat my own dinner.

7:00pm bathe Owen

7:30pm read a book to Owen, nurse Owen, rock him to sleep and sing songs

8:00pm sit still

8:30pm shower

9:00pm watch tv with husband, do dishes, clean house, fold laundry, or whatever chores that need attention.

10:00pm check on Owen. Pump

10:30pm clean pump parts and other bottles.

11:00pm Go to bed

Start all over again. Each day is slightly different. I don't always get woken up at night and sometimes a glass or 2 of wine/beer sneaks into the schedule before bed. 

A few weeks ago...

The scene from This is 40 when they're in the hotel being crazy together. They order room service and eat weed cookies? For an evening they are silly, irresponsible, and act the way they did before they had kids and big life stressors. Well, we didn't eat any pot, but we did the other things. We stayed in a hotel, ordered room service, drank like college students, danced in a bar (where no one else was dancing), and woke up in a fog. It was so much fun. We got to enjoy each other again without being on a diaper/feeding/sleeping schedule. Don't we look like fun parents :)

You can still do anything you want when you're a parent. But if you're a responsible human being-you don't. That's right, I'm going to say it. Good parents actually take care of and stay home with their kids on a regular basis; and good kids have parents who love each other more. MORE. I remember at one of our premarital counseling sessions with our priest he told us. When kids come into the marriage we have to remember that our marriage comes first. So it took us almost 6 months into parenthood to remember that and realize that we needed a refresher. So we did what all good new parents do. We boozed, brunched, laughed too loud, danced in a grungy bar, took a very blurry cab ride back to our hotel...and slept!

...and then I woke up at 6am to pump milk :-/