Victory!!! For today :)

Lydia is sleeping in her own crib during nap time and I couldn't be happier. I may have found the trick that helps her to do so; albeit after an hour of sleeping with me in the rocker. Not once, but twice today I have put her down in the crib, nestled in her Boppy and she has loved it. She slept for an hour during her morning nap and is just passing an hour now on her afternoon nap. For those of you who know, I have been trying to figure out how to get her to sleep in there during the day for quite some time. It might be only today, but hopefully it is a little trick that might ease her into sleeping better during the day. Ha. Life has changed from a year ago; that is for certain. I never thought I would be finding so much joy in the little tricks of motherhood. I also must add that I have really been cherishing the times I do have to rock her and snuggle her up. Soon enough she will be running around and probably won't sit still to snuggle very often. What a sweet little girl I have. Oh I love her so much!

New Normal

Lately I've found that when other people around me are having conversations, and those conversations don't have to do with something baby, I don't have much to add. Not only don't I have much to add, I sort of space out into my own little "mommy world." It's weird how being with a little human 24/7 sort of makes you forget about a lot of other things going on outside of our four walls. I've heard this is pretty common and that after about a year I will be "back to normal." Whatever that means. I'm pretty sure as of now I have acquired a new normal. More on this later.... Lydia is crying.