Thursday, January 26, 2012

Where did the time go?

I feel like as I've become a parent I'm contstantly asking myself one question.  Where has the time gone? How is my three month maternity leave long gone?  How have I been back at work for almost three months?  How is Hannah about to be 6mo old?  It amazes me how quickly time flies by and even how more quickly an hour passes.  I remember when I was a kid, I used to be mad that a day had 24 hrs in it.  I felt like that was just too much time especially since roughly 12 of those hours it's dark outside.  I still admire the mornings and the daytime, but have become particulary fond of the evenings because M-F is when I get to spend time with my family.  However, the evenings are just too short.  When I leave work, I race to get Hannah from daycare.  It's, hands down, one of the BEST parts of my day.  I quickly scoop her up, make the short drive home, unpack her stuff, and begin our evening routine.  I'm usually home at 6pm which means I have less than 1 hr to enjoy our daughter before it's time for bed.  Bath time, play time, get her thing out for the next day, heating the bottle and then find myself staring down at our beautiful daughter as she takes her bottle and drifts off the sleep in my arms.  I would sit there and hold onto her forever, but I know tomorrow brings another busy day and if I'm to survive I have to get some sleep too.  By this time, Jeff is usually in the kitchen organizing dinner or cleaning bottles.  Sometimes if he gets home early enough he has a minute with Hannah before he runs off to shower a busy days worth of work away while I put Hannah down for the night.  Everynight Jeff and I sit down together for dinner.  Even if it's just for a little bit and talk about our day.  This is another time I'd consider to be the BEST part of my day.  After dinner, I run off to go pump then get the bottles filled and ready for the next day then shower so I'm semi-presentable for work.  I try to get to bed by 10pm because Hannah will sometimes be up in the middle of the night and I have to wake at 5am to pump, get ready for work, get Hannah up then get out the door to drop her at daycare by 7am so I can get to the office before 7:30am.  This is our routine.  And getting all this done in only 24hrs is rough.  If only there was more time in the day.....