The Biggest Secret No One Tells You About Having a Baby...

So after my last post I thought I'd write a more serious post cuz I feel like I'm on a roll :-)

In 67 days our "baby" will be 2 and you want to know something?? Most days I still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing... Every day is something new that we have to handle and try to figure out.  For example Bean has recently been experiment with not taking a nap (ahh the horror!!). If she doesn't take a nap (ugh) she goes to sleep at 8:30, if she takes a nap (yay!!) she doesn't go to sleep until 10:30- boo.  I want her to have some quiet time everyday but sometimes she falls asleep but then stays awake until 10:30 so what do I do...  This has been the story of our life every since we found out we were pregnant with Lizzie. Weighing the pros and cons of every possible situation, every situation having really good cons and really bad cons :-)  And its not just the immediate pros and cons we have to consider we have to think about how this will affect Bean in the future.  It can be exhausting and it doesn't get any easier AND I'm fully expecting each kid after Bean to be completely different :-) Joy...

Now its not like there's not any advice out there.  In fact you can practically be buried by the amount of advice out there.  And for every issue there is advice for BOTH sides (or all of the sides..).  For every side there is someone who believes that their way is the best way.  As soon as people found out we were pregnant advice started rolling in and hasn't stopped.(I'm not complaining because it definitely has helped).  But despite all the advice here's the piece I either never got or was too delusionally happy to retain or understand: Most of the time you will have NO idea what you are doing or should do :-)

That's basically it. Every day is something new, a new problem and new challenge.  I never thought it would be this hard (or this great).  I had experience with kids, but being a mom is something totally different. And I still love it, even if Bean stops napping or naps and then stays awake until 10:30 and I can't decide which is worse and therefore which to encourage ;-) But by the time we figure it out something new that we don't know what to do with will come up. Yay... But totally worth it :-)