Jack has brought a new rhythm to life that we are both still figuring out together. Days and nights stream together like uninterrupted time... three hour block schedules form our day - running around between naps and car backseat feedings and trying to figure out unending baby puzzles is the new normal. Each day feels the same and yet different - it feels like he is growing up too fast and yet not at all. I am trying to savor every moment - every little cuddle and coo, wake-up stretches and little baby faces; every late night sleepy snuggle, sneezes, and songs.
Everyone says these days go by so fast and to soak them all in. I know it's true - I see my first class of preschoolers entering the teenage years and marching off to 7th grade this year; I see my instagram feed previously filled with babies now making their way to Kindergarten... these infant moments won't last forever, which is both glorious and heartbreaking all at once. I love this little guy so much, yet he has turned my world upside down in ways I never could've predicted. I am both exhausted and fulfilled; terrified and overjoyed.
I recently had lunch with two friends who I encouraged to explore the teaching program in Spain I did years ago, and it occurred to me how different life is for me now. They are twenty-three and heading off on their adventure... anticipation, excitement, dreams of travel to Portugal and the south of France... airbnb's and hostels and trains and Euro Life. Everyone told me those days would go by so quickly - to do it all while I still had time... What days don't fly by?! What time doesn't pass?! Life feels fleeting and overwhelming and everything is put into perspective when a little human enters the world.
Everyone says these days go by so fast and to soak them all in. I know it's true - I see my first class of preschoolers entering the teenage years and marching off to 7th grade this year; I see my instagram feed previously filled with babies now making their way to Kindergarten... these infant moments won't last forever, which is both glorious and heartbreaking all at once. I love this little guy so much, yet he has turned my world upside down in ways I never could've predicted. I am both exhausted and fulfilled; terrified and overjoyed.
I recently had lunch with two friends who I encouraged to explore the teaching program in Spain I did years ago, and it occurred to me how different life is for me now. They are twenty-three and heading off on their adventure... anticipation, excitement, dreams of travel to Portugal and the south of France... airbnb's and hostels and trains and Euro Life. Everyone told me those days would go by so quickly - to do it all while I still had time... What days don't fly by?! What time doesn't pass?! Life feels fleeting and overwhelming and everything is put into perspective when a little human enters the world.
It sounds and looks like you are having fun!
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