Ah, the insanity of football season and being a mommy.

Posted on Sep 14 in Featured, Life in Evansville, breastfeeding, colorguard & winterguard, parenting, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

The joys of football season are endless… Not because I love football or anything. It means four straight months of teaching, reworking and cleaning a marching band show. Rehearsals and performances galore, fun (insanely busy) times!

I actually hate football with a passion but marching bands perform during halftime at football games so that means I am there and crazy busy. Teaching is my passion, it’s hard to balance passions with motherhood though.

Currently Everly and I go to band practice pretty much 4 days a week, from here on out I’ll have their performances to attend almost every Saturday. That’s 5 out of 7 days working, in addition to being a full time stay at home mom.

I basically have time to eat, wash laundry, feed Everly, bathe and sleep. There isn’t time for much else, which is why I haven’t been blogging as much.

We aren’t leaving her with a sitter because finding a sitter we can TRUST (it’s way more than just finding someone we trust her with if you know what I mean) isn’t easy at all.

We are worried about protecting her from germs too, especially since she’s not vaccinated yet. Did you know breastfeeding is the best protection against the swine flu, regular flu and other common sicknesses? She’s still exclusively breastfeed because of this and many other reasons.

Anyway, Everly is growing so fast, she’s 3 months tomorrow. She looks much different now and is a little slobbery, licking and hand sucking fiend these days. Oh and she still wont take a pacifier! She’s content with sucking her fingers or licking my shoulder instead. Nice huh?

Also, she’s a pro at whining now. There are no more indistinguishable cries here, she whimpers and whines and will even full on wail when she’s needing different things. She’s expressing herself, lol.

She’s doing better at sleeping in her bassinet for naps too. I even made some blackout curtains for her nursery so she could nap in there during the day.

We still struggle with her getting overtired on our busy days but all in all this parenting thing is going much better than it did when she was first born.

Now, if I could just get a handle on this being exhausted and lacking motivation thing

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4 Comments

• Hyphen Mama says:

  September 15, 2009 at 8:18 pm

  Honey, I think you can qualify yourself as a WORKING MOM! Stay-at-home moms aren’t going to work 5 days a week. You’re exhausted because you’re working hard and managing your home and parenting your baby.

  You’re doing a great job.

  And my kids are 6 and 3 and I’ve STILL never had a babysitter who wasn’t a grandparent. It’s the trust thing.
  .-= Hyphen Mama´s last blog ..How to guarantee Potty Training Success…. =-.
• Ree says:

  September 15, 2009 at 8:27 pm

  She’s so beautiful. And I bet she loves the music… and the kids probably dote on her, eh?
  .-= Ree´s last blog ..Bang Head Here =-.
• Donna B. says:

  September 15, 2009 at 11:28 pm

  I’m with Hyphen Mama – you are not a stay-at-home mom if you have a job that takes you outside the house 5 days a week. That you have a job you can take your baby too is a plus, but it’s not the same as a stay-at-home.

  You’ll be struggling with her getting over-tired and whining for the next several years. Learn to enjoy it!!

  While it never worked for me because I can’t keep to a schedule, it’s worked quite well for my daughter and granddaughter to have one… to the point that my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter will now sometimes put herself down for a nap. Blows my mind.
  .-= Donna B.´s last blog ..I’m Updated! =-.
• Donna B. says:

  September 15, 2009 at 11:35 pm

  I should mention too that I have absolutely no interest in football. My children… well, it’s somehow important to them. While they were here a few weeks ago, my granddaughter schooled me in appropriate ways to celebrate a touchdown saying… “Do it like this Nonna (raising both arms above her head) – and say TOUCHDOWN.”

  Her parents have been making her sit at the table until everyone is through eating for a long time, but that hasn’t stopped her from trying to get down. This last visit, she’d tried asking to watch Sleeping Beauty, saying she “needed” to see a cartoon. And finally, when none of that or persistent whining worked, she said “But Daddy, I’m missing the game!”
  .-= Donna B.´s last blog ..I’m Updated! =-.

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