Sorry the Easter Bunny is sick

Our first family Easter.  It sounds so great when you say it.  Honestly though, Alex is too young to enjoy holidays yet.  Easter means no more to her than any other day except mommy puts her in goofy rabbit footies and there are bright new toys to look at and try to stick in her mouth.  Not to mention the cute bunny tail, so adorable.  In any case, right now holidays are more for us than her.  Having said that, this Easter was a bit different.

It was supposed to be Easter at the In-laws.  Instead, my 4 year old niece came down with the flu. We're talking throwing up, diarrhea, haven't eaten for two days and are a wet noodle flu.  Obviously, we didn't want to get it and especially not expose my 4 month old to those bugs.  It was decided that Easter would be moved to our place.  Uh, ok.  So off I went to the store to get nice placemats and cloth napkins to match our wedding china which we pulled out, and it looked very nice.  Still I was paranoid.  People were going to come in shifts with someone staying behind with the Sick Rylee, who by the way ADORES her cousin :)

Rylee and Alex having a conversation

 
In any case, people came in and out the whole time, and me making people wash their hands for the millionth time before they touched my daughter.  I'm sorry, I don't care how many times you've washed your hands, you want to touch the baby after being in the flu infested zone for 2 days you'll wash your hands again!  In any case, after the whole day of people coming in out, my stress hoping no one gave her the bug, by 6:30 we were all exhausted and done.  Hindsight says no one should have come over and we should have had a quiet Easter just the three of us, but oh well, that what we do for family right? We did have some entertaining moments, especially with that flower headband :)

Yes, my husband is so pretty in that flower headband

Easter gone wild! Alex decided to show of that adorable belly

I understand that as she gets older, holidays will have more significance as she can participate and yes, as her first Easter it was special.  A special thanks to my mom who made, yes made from scratch that lovely pink and purple basket you see above, dying the reeds and all. 


Robyn

Stay at Home Mom

I always had this vision of what a stay at home mom was, and honestly, I wasn't what I pictured.  I am driven, extremely type A, and like working.  I'm a project person, someone who likes to make lists, and check things off of them.  I didn't think I'd be happy staying at home with a kid.  Who knew that all of those things are easily translatable to being a stay at home mom.  I also had no idea it be one of the hardest things I've ever done, but who wouldn't want to stay home with this face :).  

I think staying at home with your kids is a wonderful gift if you're able to do it, but there are days when I think, man, going to work would be so much easier.  You get out of the house, get to talk to adults, and have a sense of accomplishment.  It's more difficult with a kid, because you don't get immediate results, which is something I'm used to getting.  Even though you know you're not the only one, there are times you feel so alone despite thousands of women doing the same thing you are.  However I get a giggle, smile, and get to watch all of these amazing milestones with my adorable little peanut, drooling and all.

Will anyone read this Blog?  I have no idea.  If nothing else, I think this is a great outlet for me to express some of those feeling that are easier said in print.  I was also inspired by none other then some facebook friends and their blogs (Annie, Erin, Stacy and Erica whose blogs I regularly follow).  I realized that all of us have a voice, and they're all different, and although each of us is experience something similar, everyone's journey is just a bit different and imteresting in itself.  So here's the first of hopefully many to come.

Robyn