Planning

I'm not sure how the next few months are going to go, but I'm not scared. I'm not pregnant anymore, so I feel a lot more physically competent to take on the highly athletic task of taking care of three little kids. I'll need to keep Baby C safe and warm and fed, and well, the same thing for Chebbles and Gigi.

The task starts on Sunday morning -- my plan is to arrive home Saturday night after the "big girls" are tucked into bed, and then on Sunday morning we can start getting to know Baby C as a family member.

And plus, it's not like I'm doing this alone. I have Hub-D shouldering the heavy lifting, particularly when it comes to wearing out the kids in the trampoline or wrassling them into summertime tiredness. And I've got wonderful friends who are ready to take on one or two children, or some errands, in order to make things work.

I worry that I won't be able to hire a night nurse this time around, but the indications so far are that we don't have another Gigi on our hands -- she was a troublesome infant when it came to sleeping, and this one? Well, I'm holding out hope that we have a different model here. I'm also more experienced, which might account for something, right?

When I was pregnant (you know, back in the olden days), people would raise their eyebrows when they saw me, toting Gigi, and with Chebbles in tow. "You're going to be one busy mama!" they'd say, with a tinge of pity to their voices. But I don't think I need sympathy. This is my dream come true.

And I suppose that's a healthy outlook since I won't get much actual dreaming done for a few months here. If I got Chebbles and Gigi on a 7pm-7am sleep schedule, I sure as heck can do it again with Baby C -- not tomorrow, not by the end of the year, but sometime in early 2010, it might occur.

But I do think I need to make some sacrifices in order to make things work logistically. One of those things is my posting on this blog. I think I might be more occasional rather than daily for awhile, at least for the summer. I need to stay away from my computer -- nothing hugely important occurs over e-mail, but I sometimes check it obsessively when I feel like escaping my kids for a few minutes.

But I'll do better to just leave that alone, just separate myself and perhaps even keep the computer OFF during the daytime so I can focus on the many tasks at hand...

Speaking of which, Baby C would like some lovin'. Have a good night, all.