Only when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I figured it was time for a happy post! It's nap time again and daddy has just signed up for five evening shifts this week leaving this momma to deal with witching hour and bed time alone! I feel like I am psyching myself up for an ultra marathon! Today our angel decided to sleep for 8 hours straight, take a long morning nap, then wake up and roll from tummy to back. I know, huh? Nico keeps saying "babies are like the stock market." One day is completely different from the next, it couldn't be more true. Today babyA and I have been in love, those long looks she gives me with a wide open mouthed smile and giggling, then closing her eyes looking away and glancing back at me, like are you still looking because I still love you. Yep, today, she has decided to be an angel. She is currently on nap number 3, and it took 2 minutes to lay her in her crib, then I sat down and took care of three things on my to do list and had a knock on the door, it was our neighbor wit...

My beautiful 10 week old daughter is sleeping, swaddled, in her stroller, after being rocked in arms and rocked in the stroller for 15 minutes. Its 11:30am, its her second nap, I'm finally eating my first meal of the day after being awake since 715, but if you count last night I was also awake at 245-330 and 515-630. Oh yea and last night it took three 2.5 hours to get her to go to sleep so I went to "bed" at 11:30. So back to the present moment, because I only have 30 minutes left to type this! I know this blog post has been written before by some other very tired momma, but maybe if I write it down then it will be as funny as it is in my head. This shit really happened to me, I couldn't make it up if I tried. Things were going "OK" for a while after my parents left Australia, I have to write OK in quotes because whats OK with a 5 week old baby is different to what is OK to a life without children. My beautiful daughter (and I do think she is ador...