Where do I start?

I've tried, on numerous, occasions to update this blog.  I think it goes without saying that trying to catch up on over SIX MONTHS of my son's life is just entirely too daunting of a task.  So, today, I've decided to keep it simple and do a 5 minute update.  One of the blogs I follow stole the idea from another blog - you get the idea, and I decided this would be the perfect acceptable way of jump starting blogging again.  Now maybe I can wrap my head around blogging more often.

5 minutes of writing.  Ready, set, go.

The last 6 months have been so many things.  Amazing, wonderful, exhausting, overwhelming, life-changing, terrifying, and magical.  It is truly impossible to explain to an expectant parent just how much their life is about to change.  I feel like there has been no stone left unturned in how my life has been changed.  I am at the same time the exact same person and a completely different person.  I cannot tell you how many times I have apologized in my head for judging the way others have parented.  'Cause guess what?  I've ended up doing many of the same things that I thought were just oh so terrible before I was a parent.  It's called survival.  It's also called taking a chill pill.

I have learned that though spending time with my son and husband is beyond my most favorite thing in the world, it is absolutely imperative that I spend time alone as well.  Work is finally becoming something I don't completely resent.  That was hard.  I was home for 4 months, and it took almost just as long to even kind of enjoy getting up and coming into work.  I wouldn't say I love it just yet, but I see value in what I'm doing and I also see a lot of value in Collin spending time with someone else during the day and playing with another little boy all day long.  He truly enjoys his time with Hannah and Jake, but  he also loves even more when his mama comes home. :)

Collin is the most amazingly sweet and fun kid I've ever known.  Says his mother.  He is also one incredibly determined little thing.  Many thanks to his father for that one.  When Jake (who is two months older) starts to do something, Collin almost immediately begins to imitate him.  I can now literally see him trying to figure out how to take his first steps.  It is the most precious thing ever.

5 minutes up!

So there you  have it.  A five minute download of the last 6 months.  Don't worry, I have kept notes of all the things that have happened and plan to make him a beautiful baby book one day, but for now this blog is considered up to date, and maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to update it more regularly with our daily happenings. :)