Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This...

So...life with a new born, a toddler, and a pre-schooler has been a whirlwind. I've heard varying opinions on the subject, but I would definitely say THREE is a whole lot different from TWO. Suddenly I found myself looking around at all of these little people and thinking:

"Dang, there sure is a lot of them".

It kind of snuck up on me though, as these little humans typically do. It's not until you get them home and unwrap them that you really get a clue as to what's in store. As I mentioned before in my summation of my labor experience, Garrett started things off awesome by behaving himself and graduating to the status of a regular nursery baby, rather than a Special Care baby like our other two. This allowed for two days at the hospital filled with visitors and presents and laughter and joy...a first-time experiene for Ryan and I.

And it seems that the blessings just continued after we got home. Ryan was on paternity leave for two weeks (can you believe our world has come so far that men actually get PATERNITY leave?? I can just hear older men scoff...40 years ago, I thinks kids were lucky if their dads knew their first names). BUT alas, this is a new era and Ryan took advantage...and we enjoyed every minute of it. We had people bringing us meals and non-stop visitors for those two weeks.

THEN just as Ryan was getting ready to return to work and I thought reality might set in, his parents came to visit for 5 days...yea! I can prolong real life for a little while longer! So we're up to three weeks now, and I had yet to experience what real life was going to be like...though I knew it was looming and I would soon find out.

Well that day finally came. It was just a few days after Ryan's parents went home to Cape Cod. It was like I woke up to a newborn-hangover. All the noise and lights from the 3-week party still spinning in my head...yet the house was eerily empty. Except of course for those three little humans I was now charged with taking care of all by myself for the first time.