As a parent, I feel like as soon as you fins a rhythm and think that you are getting the hang of things, everything changes and your balance is thrown all out of order again. You can spend eternity trying to organize endless and children will always change your plans.
Today was one of those days where I felt like I had no balance. I was neither fully invested in my work, nor fully available for my children.
To start off the day, both kids woke up earlier then they ever do (around 5:45) which shook things up from the beginning. Normally I have a good amount of time to prep dinner and get everything ready to go for the day. Today, I was about half way done when they woke up. This usually means it’s going to add about 50% to my prep time and decrease the amount of time I have to drink my coffee.
Then, the younger one had vaccines today, which meant I was late for my first couple meetings at work but also dropping off a fussy baby at daycare. Once at work, I spent about an hour of my time there pumping and then leaving early to go pick up the fussy baby.
He was still inconsolable when we got home, delaying getting dinner finished. Which was probably one of the reasons that the toddler ended up mostly having pouches and a cookie for dinner because she was no longer hungry by the time it was ready.
At the end of the evening, the toddler couldn’t stop playing blocks with my husband and then calmly changed for bed (if you know her, you know she’s often not calm) and cuddled and had story time and fell asleep without a single cry. It was a beautiful way to end a chaotic day and be reminded that the most important thing is that our family has their basic necessities, including feeling loved.