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A Day In The Life...

4:00 a.m....wake to cries, stick pacifier in mouth, pray for one more hour
5:00 a.m....finally realize this is it, day is beginning...grab baby from swing and go to nurse
5:30 a.m....finish nursing, get baby to sleep on chest, get comfy in the recliner, snooze
6:15 a.m....wake to furious grunting and leg kicking of baby...realize a diaper change is coming soon
6:30 a.m....change diaper, hit recliner again
6:35 a.m....realize another diaper change is needed...he does this to me EVERY TIME
6:45 a.m....go downstairs, put baby in lamb cradle, make some breakfast and coffee
7:00 a.m....soothe crying baby who either wants to nurse again or wake up entire neighborhood, not sure of his intent
7:15 a.m....check email while eating oatmeal and holding baby and keeping pacifier in place
7:45 a.m....put sleeping baby back in lamb cradle and check out facecrack
8:15 a.m...put in a load of laundry, brush my teeth, go pick up crying baby
8:20 a.m...start nursing process again
8:40 a.m....wonder if we should snooze again in recliner or...................zzzzzzzzzzz.......
9:20 a.m....wake up w/ bad back ache, this is why snoozing in recliner is not good
9:30 a.m....put baby down to put on some clothes, ditch p.j.'s in favor of sweats
9:45 a.m....realize baby has not had any "tummy time" and attempt to give him some on bed
10:00 a.m...realize baby has not had any intellectual stimulation from mother, wonder why I'm such a bad mother, this is my fucking job after all and I'm failing every day, or so I think...repeatedly.
10:33 a.m....attempt to blog while baby cries in his lamb cradle, which does have a mirror and a mobile to stimulate his mind while I fail to do so
11:00 a.m....watch ER rerun while comforting baby and trying to avoid having him look at the t.v. screen after reading that exposure to screens causes ADD
11:05 a.m...give crying baby a pacifier, then wonder if I'm too liberal in my use of pacifier, so take it out and let baby cry before giving pacifier back to baby after realizing I can't soothe him any other way right now, because ER is on
11:20...attempt to nurse while watching ER, realize child's head control is not where it needs to be for me to be distracted while nursing, debate next step
12:00...calm baby to sleep and repeat morning cycle.