Survival

So I survived my first week at home alone with Adeline.  I learned some very important lessons along the way. 

1. Soup is not the best food for eating alone with a baby

2. You need to have lots of one handed, no cook foods on hand otherwise you may start making lunch at 12:30 and not eat it until 3:30

3. Sleep always trumps cleaning even if your house looks like a bomb exploded - this is a new era in life where messy rules

4. Just when you think a fairly good routine has been established, baby will change her mind and you will have to start from scratch again

5. Getting out of the house takes at least an hour of preparation - the diaper will always need to be changed just as you are about to leave

6. It is not always clear when 'morning' occurs - is the 5am wake up time 'morning' or the 7:30am wake up time or the 11am? Same with bedtime. 

7. Getting 8 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period makes for a much saner mom, even if it doesn't come all at once - thank goodness for hormones!

8. Your evening discussions with your husband will be a mix of work, politics, sleep and poop. This doesn't seem weird at all. 

9. Sometimes you will lose track of how often you have bathed, brushed your teeth and changed your clothing 

10. Your house will be messy no matter how hard you try or how much you swore this would not be the case 

11. Some days you will accomplish absolutely nothing other than feeding your baby and yourself (just barely) and will have no idea how you spent your time