2016 was a crazy year for me with lots of new. I'm still experiencing the new. I don't know when it will become old. Maybe never. Last year I was enjoying my pregnancy and around this time I was getting her nursery set up. I was nesting and it's hard to nest when you need help to complete your tasks. A year ago I couldn't imagine where I am today. A mom. I'M A MOM! I love her so much and can't imagine my life without her in it. She's everything to me and more. She's my hopes, my dreams. Last year I was growing my belly and now my days are so crazy busy. I start a 4:30 am and pump milk for my girl. Then I take my shower and get ready. About 5:45 AM, I eat breakfast. 6 AM I get the little one up. Feed her and dress her. 6:30 AM I pump again. 7 AM finish getting little one ready and myself. Pack milk, cereal, fruit. I get whatever I can figure out, snacks, water. Pack pump and supplies. J takes little one to day care and I go to work. Where I pump 3 more times during the day. The day flies by and before I know it, it's time to go home. Pack up my milk from the work day and drive home where I pump again at 6 PM. Prepare little one's dinner, my dinner, and we play for a bit before I change her for bed (bath a few times a week). Milk at 8 PM and out by 8:30 PM. In the meantime, I again pump. If it's after 9 PM, I'm done. If it's 8 PM, I might pump again. But it exhausts me. The pumping and breastmilk is less than a month from being over. I'll have time on my hands for sure which will be spent with my little one. I'm trying to figure out what to do for her 1st birthday. We'll visit family but it'll probably be next year. Right now, I'm trying to figure out a holiday card (Feeling guilty because I didn't send out all my Thank You's like I should have) so I can thank everyone for the gifts they sent us. In the next week, I should have everything set for that.
