Planning Around the Boob

Is it amazing that you make life, grow life, feed life as it grows, give birth to brand new life, and then feed it from your own body.  I am quite impressed with what nature has given to me.  You never realize how cool being a woman is until you get pregnant and have a child.  You have all these amazing instincts that kick in and you just nurture them, as you do your baby.   It's pretty cool.  I know that those of you that have had a child are like yeah...whatever, but I am just truly amazed.

So, for my first mother's day I got a beautiful pair of earrings that are Sophia's birthstone, aquamarine, a cake, Amine made a quiche, and we had some mimosas.  You have to plan though!   We had our mimosas and then I couldn't feed her for a while of course.  I have read the new literature, as well as listened to what my doc said about pumping and dumping, and basically that's not necessary.  You just wait 2 hrs per drink and then you are good to feed again.  That sounds like a ridiculous amount of time, and it is, because then your boobs are about to pop!   But, it was worth it I say.   We really did have a beautiful morning.   And to make matters even better, she slept last night from 8-4:30!!!   Yes!!!   And then today she is currently still in the middle of what I can only guess will be a 4 hr nap!   But, I am NOT waking her, because I know if she wakes up, she'll be plenty hungry and then she'll go down tonight at 7 or 8 and perhaps we will have another good night.   Best to not jinx it though..... :-)

On this Mother's Day I reflect....I reflect upon all the years that Amine and I have been happily married, spent tons of time together being poor, then getting real jobs, and basically growing up together.  I mean, Amine and I spent our entire 20's together!   We travelled together and did a HELL of a lot of darn good partying and boy was it all worth it.   Now, we are true grown ups!   We can still have our mimosas on Mother's Day, because we are FINALLY mature enough to handle that and not freak out, and then we look down at that beautiful baby, that life that we've created and we both can get emotional.  

I love my family, I love my life, it took a long time to get to where we are...but I wouldn't change any of it.  Thank you for my first Mother's Day.  I'm the luckiest mom in the whole wide world.