Growing Pains

Well life has sure changed a lot in the past year and a bit.  I feel a bit like the life I had planned to be living right now was put in the blender and someone turned it onto puree!  It's not that I don't like the changes that have taken place, some of them have been so beneficial... But change is never comfortable!!  Your always readjusting...

  For example, Matt and I have become a one car family for the first time since before we had kids.  Now that's not such a bad change, less car insurance, less gas...  I think I wouldn't mind it so much except that we don't live anywhere near any sort of transit whatsoever...  Again, not so bad, I can get up early and drive Matt to work, sometimes... when he doesn't need the car...  But again, its change right... So its NOT comfortable!!

  Potty Training, another change in our household...  It is finally going well... Kind of.  Anybody have a child out there that is scared to poop in the potty?  Not scared of pooping, just in the potty...  He was pooping just fine in the potty and then one day he decided that he was scared of it.  I am totally stumped, I have tried asking what is wrong, I have tried reading him everybody poops, we bring it up in everyday conversation, he gets awesome potty treats when he poops...  Really? is there anything else I can be doing to facilitate non-scary bowel movements?  LOL... I'm sure this will be a really funny story in about 15-18 years to tell his girlfriend... But for now I am stumped!  He doesn't like a poopy diaper, but the ordeal we have to go through to poop... Yup Change Is Uncomfortable!!

  Aaron is going through a typical 7 month old stage where he doesn't want to be put down... EVER!  If I walk away it is the end of the world!  I don't remember Eli going through this, but maybe he did.  Thankfully I was at my friends house tonight and they had a basket of books in their bathroom, (and who doesn't pick up good old bathroom reading?)... and one was What to Expect in the First Year!  Well I flipped right to 7 months and low and behold, Aaron is right where he should be in that regard.  7 month old babies all want to be held all the time... and guess what... I'm doing everything that book said to do to get past this stage... LOL.  It is just a matter of time for Aaron to get used to this Change! Oh yes, Change is UNCOMFORTABLE!!  For Aaron and for Mommy!

  These are just a few of the changes that we are getting used to in our household... And I felt the need to blog about them.  Sometimes it feels nicer to be able to type it all out.  It feels less uncomfortable!  Thanks for letting me rant.

The Rantings of a Mother/Wife/Woman experiencing CHANGE!  And its UNCOMFORTABLE!