Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Our New Normal

As with every huge life event, having a child has changed what used to be normal for my husband and me.

We used to stay up fairly late, watching nothing on television. Then we got rid of cable to save some money each month, and now subscribe to Hulu Plus. Now we don't have to be sad if Tater Tot cries through an episode of a show we wanted to watch, because we can pause it and even watch it later, while he's asleep.

We used to get a full night's sleep on a regular basis, and by that I mean we would sleep for 6 hours at least. Uninterrupted. Now, we're really excited if we get 3 hours at a time.

We used to have a bit of a social life outside our house. Now, everyone comes to us...and it's really only to see the baby, not us.

We also used to have two dogs...but the smaller of the two, who will remain unnamed, now happily resides in Grantsville, MD, on a farm with horses and many other dogs. Why? Because he began peeing on items inside our house after Luke arrived. The last straw was when he peed on Luke's jungle gym last week. I was granted permission to find other arrangements for him, which sucked, but it needed to happen. Poor thing needed more attention than we could give him right now, and he also needed more than a 50'x24' back yard to run around in.


And I used to knit almost constantly. Now, it takes me far longer to get projects done than it did before...but he's worth it.