The Slade Family Blog

Until our trio becomes a family of FOUR! 

Random thoughts going through my head as this is my last day of being a Mommy to ONE child…

I find it interesting all of the advice and comments that I have received over the past nine months of being preggers.  Some taken with a grain of salt because they put worrisome thoughts into my head, but others are respectable and allow me to start thinking.  One person, said that “Kimberly, even though I know that you have a type-A personality, know that you are never going to be able to keep up all the things that you have done for James.”  I don’t know where I am going with this, but after thinking about what is about to come I have started to feel really GUILTY!  With my first, I had all of my T’s crossed and I’s dotted.  My “to-do” list was a mile long, but I still managed to get all of it accomplished prior to James’ arrival (okay, really a month ahead)!  I was so overly prepared that I even had all of my 200 plus birth announcements addressed… with Jackson, I haven’t even looked for them!  With James (even though Jeff thinks that I am crazy), I have EVERY milestone written on a calendar, excel spreadsheet, in a baby book, and now in a blurb album that I started less than a week ago.  I have those sheets that they give you at the hospital for nursing with all his nursing times, weight checks, soiled diapers, wet diapers, and every bite that ever went into his mouth during the FIRST YEAR all recorded.  I didn’t want to miss recording a thing!  I read every baby book, so I constantly had friends asking my advice on things, which was really sweet, but I still felt like I need to know more!  I have taken over 12,000 pictures of James because I wanted to make sure that I captured the perfect one.  Did I drive myself crazy at times?  Of course!  Why did I go to such extremes?  Not quite sure, I guess I am in the running for Mother-in-law of the year (as one of my girlfriends told me the other day) or something,  HA!  I did learn to “lighten up” (a little) after James’ first year of life, but I still manage to record (almost) everything!  I guess what I am trying to say is that I am feeling guilty because I KNOW that I am never going to be able to keep up with all that I have done with James over the past twenty one months for sweet little Jackson.  Let’s face it… I am a baby-buncher and having two kids under two is going to be HARD work.      

I can’t go here, so don’t even get me started on how much of a WORRY factor I have for my sweet baby James and how adding an addition will make him feel… I could write a book on those feelings!!!  Hopefully, he is too young to experience most of the thoughts that are constantly running through my head (I hope)! 

Scary, I know (can you believe that I was actually bigger with James), but pictures the night before I pop (James still has no clue that his baby brother Jackson is actually hiding in my tummy, however he still does like to snuggle with it, so sweet)…  

Final note, my ”nesting” has rubbed off some on Jeff.  On Tuesday night, Jeff decided to blow in some insulation in our attic… what a project!  

Jeff, my handyman ready to take on a project that was TOTALLY his idea! 

Oops, the hose came loose and blew insulation all over our driveway and in the neighbors yard!