One Crazy Year
Wow, it’s been a year since I posted anything. Let’s see in that time Kaden has turned two, started talking like mad, continued to develop a fanatical obsession with baseball, and grown up so much. Now Jace has arrived (he’s 11 days old today), and we’re starting over on this parenting thing in some regards. Being a parent to two is quite a bit more tricky than I think either of us realized, and so there’s been a lot of soul searching, and praying going on here around how we handle all this.
There’s always been alot of prayer in our household when it comes baby time, as there’s so much you can worry about, and if you get to offload all of those cares on someone so much bigger than ourselves, that’s a beautiful thing.
I head back to work next Monday, which I’m apprehensive about, but overall, I think we’re in pretty good shape. There’s definitely a few more things I wish were caught up inside the house, but I think Kassy’s in pretty good shape to do this on her own. I’m sure my schedule will change, but I think we have a handle on what we want to try first, and we’ll figure it out as we go, just like we did with Kaden. The good news is that Jace has been a champion sleeper. generally sleeping in three hour stretches, and even one night sleeping six hours (something we’re still a bit unsure about).
All in all, I’m glad to be back. I was interested in participating in NaNoWriMo this year, but with the new baby, there’s just no way that’s going to happen, but I’ll do my best to pick back up on the blogging.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Hey RC – welcome back to blogging! :) Hooray for our Father who is eager for us to cast all our cares on Him. And double hooray since He can actually do things to help us.
So many blessings and challenges with littlies in the house. My best (unsolicited!) advice is to take things really really slow. The world is out there when you want to rejoin. Vi is 9 weeks old, and I only just started going back to my Friday morning playgroup. I was dying to get out of the house, so I knew it was time. It’s different for every parent, every family, but I know taking it slow relieves a lot of stress for us.
Praying for you guys!