Comments on: The It’s Now Impossible With Two Kids List http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/ Off-Ramped and Unbalanced Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Onthegochicago http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4550 Onthegochicago Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:36:13 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4550 Your post made me laugh....I have thought all of those things to myself. My kids are 13 months apart and my youngest just turned one last week. I agree with the comments above too, it does get easier. When they started having the same afternoon nap schedule, my life changed. i now have two hours to myself every afternoon. Well...I would not call them to myself exactly. I still have to clean, return phone calls, check emails and try to work during that time. Like you, I love my little girls to death, but man...I miss having free time! Your post made me laugh….I have thought all of those things to myself. My kids are 13 months apart and my youngest just turned one last week. I agree with the comments above too, it does get easier. When they started having the same afternoon nap schedule, my life changed. i now have two hours to myself every afternoon. Well…I would not call them to myself exactly. I still have to clean, return phone calls, check emails and try to work during that time. Like you, I love my little girls to death, but man…I miss having free time!

]]> By: kim/hormone-colored days http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4536 kim/hormone-colored days Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:58:18 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4536 @marketingmommy said it well. I just need to add that the comment about the baby smiling at the Windows musack made me laugh/ @marketingmommy said it well. I just need to add that the comment about the baby smiling at the Windows musack made me laugh/

]]> By: RookieMom Whitney http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4524 RookieMom Whitney Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:18:26 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4524 I'm two years ahead of you and the ability to get an uninterrupted night of sleep is still elusive. It happens about once per week. Example: Earlier this week my 5-year old peed in his bed twice in one night. It was like having a nursing baby to get called out of my bed every three hours. The bad dreams are the preschooler symptom we didn't know about when our first child started sleeping through the night and we prematurely thought "We lived through it!". Now he's more likely than the little one to have night-wakings. I’m two years ahead of you and the ability to get an uninterrupted night of sleep is still elusive. It happens about once per week.

Example: Earlier this week my 5-year old peed in his bed twice in one night. It was like having a nursing baby to get called out of my bed every three hours.

The bad dreams are the preschooler symptom we didn’t know about when our first child started sleeping through the night and we prematurely thought “We lived through it!”. Now he’s more likely than the little one to have night-wakings.

]]> By: Heather @ Green Baby Green Mama http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4523 Heather @ Green Baby Green Mama Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:11:34 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4523 This is a great list! I've been contemplating numero dos but your list makes me appreciate my one and only (for now!) This is a great list! I’ve been contemplating numero dos but your list makes me appreciate my one and only (for now!)

]]> By: Shari http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4518 Shari Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:16:14 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4518 Number 3 is my life. I make lists all the time. The other day I looked at my husband and started telling a story about that thing in the kitchen we cook dinner on. He looked at me and said, "The stove?" Seriously. I couldn't pull the word stove out of my brain because I was so tired and distracted. Of course, we started with two, so this list has been my reality ever since we had children. Number 3 is my life. I make lists all the time. The other day I looked at my husband and started telling a story about that thing in the kitchen we cook dinner on. He looked at me and said, “The stove?” Seriously. I couldn’t pull the word stove out of my brain because I was so tired and distracted. Of course, we started with two, so this list has been my reality ever since we had children.

]]> By: Shareen Greenbaum http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4516 Shareen Greenbaum Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:54:24 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4516 Imagine having four-I haven't peed at home in peace for 7 years! Dave and I ask each other all the time what we did with all of our "free time" when we just had Noah at home. I do have one piece of advice. Go on vacations! Both with your kids (you'll realize how much fun you can have with them once you get out of the daily grind) and without them (you'll love it and say you'll do it again soon and of course it will be years until the next one!). Imagine having four-I haven’t peed at home in peace for 7 years! Dave and I ask each other all the time what we did with all of our “free time” when we just had Noah at home. I do have one piece of advice. Go on vacations! Both with your kids (you’ll realize how much fun you can have with them once you get out of the daily grind) and without them (you’ll love it and say you’ll do it again soon and of course it will be years until the next one!).

]]> By: Wired Momma http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4515 Wired Momma Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:05:40 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4515 HAAA...I love it. Isn't it remarkable how easy it was to have had only one kid. If only we'd been able to appreciate it when we had just one. This list of yours will grow so much longer as soon as he is mobile. Cherish every day of immobility. And I don't know what marketing mommy is doing in her house but I need a memo from her - bc I'm living your one year from now- and it's WWIII and physical assaults when DD2 moves within 10 feet of DD1 and her toys. HAAA…I love it. Isn’t it remarkable how easy it was to have had only one kid. If only we’d been able to appreciate it when we had just one. This list of yours will grow so much longer as soon as he is mobile. Cherish every day of immobility. And I don’t know what marketing mommy is doing in her house but I need a memo from her – bc I’m living your one year from now- and it’s WWIII and physical assaults when DD2 moves within 10 feet of DD1 and her toys.

]]> By: Jennifer Baskel http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4514 Jennifer Baskel Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:17:46 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4514 Hi...I have never commented on one of our posts before...even though I read every one! I want you to know, that as my #2 is nearing her first birthday, it does get 1 MILLION times better. Go easy on yourself...I forgot diapers for my daughter's first two pediatrician appointments and had to go to the waiting room to borrow some! The other mom's were like, oh, your first baby and I said, oh no...I have done this before! You can get yourself exctited for all the wonderful things to come..., I promise! Hi…I have never commented on one of our posts before…even though I read every one! I want you to know, that as my #2 is nearing her first birthday, it does get 1 MILLION times better. Go easy on yourself…I forgot diapers for my daughter’s first two pediatrician appointments and had to go to the waiting room to borrow some! The other mom’s were like, oh, your first baby and I said, oh no…I have done this before! You can get yourself exctited for all the wonderful things to come…, I promise!

]]> By: Marketing Mommy http://www.selfmademom.net/2010/01/14/the-its-now-impossible-with-two-kids-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4513 Marketing Mommy Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:43:54 +0000 http://www.selfmademom.net/?p=1195#comment-4513 It's funny how, after you've had 2, you look back at your early days with #1 and think "why on earth did I think that was hard?' But you're only a 1 year away from the kids playing together and giving you 5 minutes to pee in peace. Or paint your nails. It’s funny how, after you’ve had 2, you look back at your early days with #1 and think “why on earth did I think that was hard?’ But you’re only a 1 year away from the kids playing together and giving you 5 minutes to pee in peace. Or paint your nails.

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