Mommy Milestone

So, I'm back on the blogging wagon after too long a break.  Was my last post really in July??  Where does the time go?  A lot has changed since then.  Matthew just turned 15 months old.  He is running around the house, climbing on chairs, the coffee table, the kitchen table... yes, he's keeping us very busy!  He still doesn't say a whole lot, at least that we can understand, but he surprises us with random words every now and then.  Two of my favorite random words that he says are "yogurt" and "tractor."  Why he says "tractor" on a daily basis, but not "mama" I'll never understand. 





Back to the point of this post, I was jogging yesterday and thinking back to my pregnancy with Matthew.  I had this vision that after he was born I would be this "super mom," totally in control even with a new baby and that I would go for runs daily with my jogging stroller and two dogs in tow.  I don't know why, but that's just what I pictured.  Well, things didn't exactly go as I'd planned.  One very opinionated and out-spoken, colicky newborn and crazy post-partum hormones later, I barely wanted to lay eyes on Owen and Phoebe, much less walk with them, and much much less run with them... poor puppies :(  Recovery from delivery, lack of sleep, caring for a fussy newborn, and later exhaustion of working full-time (mom by day, MRI technologist by night) got the best of me.  I sort of let go of my "super mom" dreams and was proud if everyone had clean clothes, food on the table, and the house wasn't a complete disaster.  Life has slowly but surely been getting back to normal, and as I was running yesterday with both dogs and Matthew in the jogger, I realized that 15 months later, I've accomplished a goal.  It's a small one, but still I'm there.  Super mom... definitely not, but I'm feeling pretty good about the mom I'm becoming.  

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