\nTwo years before that, I was going to do 2012 Things in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n
This year, I have a baby.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That doesn’t mean I don’t have plenty of things I want to get done this year, plenty of things I’m not itching to get started on (or finish up). But it does mean that I’m not making any beginning-of-the-year resolutions.<\/p>\n
Every year past, I knew that my grand schemes would peter out somewhere between February and April – and I was okay with that. Grand schemes are fun while they last and I have no problem abandoning them once they’re dead. Generally, I still glean a few good things, establish a few good habits, and get a few things done to make them worth their while.<\/p>\n
But this year, I know that any grand schemes would never even hit the ground.<\/p>\n
Two unplanned months of being a stay-at-home wife and mother of a newborn has taught me that.<\/p>\n
I used to talk about all the things I would do once I was a stay-at-home and didn’t have to devote 40 hours of every week to an outside job. Now I’ve learned that I replaced a 40 hour a week job (teaching mothers how to feed their children) with a job that’s at least as time consuming (feeding my own child). Between pumping and breastfeeding and cleaning pumping supplies and dealing with spit-up, I’ve spent at least 40 hours a week over the past 8 weeks just feeding Tirzah Mae.<\/p>\n
So I’m adjusting my expectations down.<\/p>\n
Maybe come February to April (when my usual grand schemes are sinking into oblivion), I’ll be ready to scheme grand schemes again – or maybe I’ll discover that life post-newborn is still too taxing for grand schemes.<\/p>\n
That’s okay.<\/p>\n
I’m a different woman today than I was last year and the year before and the year before.<\/p>\n
This year, I have a baby.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She’s changed my life. And that’s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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