Who has driven past a car with an empty passenger seat, and seconds later spotted an adult riding in the backseat next to their baby? I remember commenting and laughing about how bleeping weird this is more times than I can count on both hands; and of course, "I'd never bleeping do that!" Well, guess what you would see if you drove past my car? Me, in the backseat, making up different renditions to The Itsy Bitsy Spider... Because that's the only thing that will shut my kids screaming face up! Side note, you wouldn't believe me if I told you the lengths of time and different ways I have sung, hummed and/or acted out The Itsy Bitsy Spider.
"Oh my bleeping gosh, so and so posts so many pictures of her baby! Is that all she does?" Ok, if you are my friend of Facebook or follow my Instagram, I don't even need to explain this one. If you're not, let's just say that if you were, you'd know Birdie's #ootd every single day! But, I think my kid's bleeping adorable... and she's definitely cooler than the food I'm eating or a quote I found off of Pinterest, and traveling has been put on hold so you won't see me posing in front of The Eiffel Tower, and I don't take baths so there go any sexy candle lit bubble bath pics; you can either enjoy my little monster pictures or feel free to delete me.
This was a HUGE "I'd never" for me! I swore up and down I would never, ever, ever co-sleep. I had a billion things to say about the crazy, unsafe parents who could potentially roll over and bleeping suffocate their poor, helpless child! At three months, Birdie got a terrible cold and guess where she ended up at night. You got it, our bed. My options were stay up all night insanely stressed out because she's choking since she can hardly breathe or put her in between us for peace of mind and sleep comfortably. The selfish part of me won this battle and the three of us slept nice and cozily in our queen size bed.
While trying to make plans with a friend recently, he asked if drinking and game night is still doable. When I told him it is, but our house is best because of naps, my kids passionate hatred for the car, and her early bed time, his response was: "Sounds like Birdie is really runnin' the show over there!" Before having a baby, you don't realize what the repercussions of missing one 40 minute nap are. Or that trying to put your little one to bed one hour past their bedtime usually actually results in three hours of temper tantrums. So, yes, Birdie runs the show... For now. But when she has a voice, she won't ever be making the rules or negotiating {I swear}!
Before you have a child, you can't fully grasp what life will be like after you do. Your priorities {should} shift, your days become a lot more unpredictable, things aren't always as simple as you imagined they would be, and you find yourself doing things you swore you would never, ever, ever do, simple because they bleeping work! I'm learning that "to each his own" is a really great saying, and to never say never because you just never know.
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