Hi.
I’m going on hiatus.
Not that the so-infrequent-as-not-to-even-qualify-as-sporadic posting didn’t already prove to be a hiatus of sorts. It’s just that I’m making it official.
A few parting-for-now thoughts:
1. Wow, was I naive about the whole having kids thing. I had no idea, no earthly clue, how hard it is to take care of an infant all day, every day. How the hell do people do it? When you go out to Costco and you see a person with a kid, that person went through this thing that I’m going through right now. How? How do humans pull it off? My god, how to teenagers pull it off? My sibling, who teaches as a CC, told me during one of my many pre-baby “how’m I gonna do this???” freakouts, that he’s seen people with drug-alcohol-abuse-money-prison problems make a reasonably decent go at parenting; hence it was to be assumed that I, lacking most of those problems, would be able to do it too.
Ass-u-me.
2. Mommy bloggers, where do you find the time? That is not a disguised judgment (as in “you must be a bad momma!”). It’s a plea for you to share your secrets. How do you type with one finger when you can’t, absolutely can’t put the baby down for fear of ear-bursting screaming?
3. The dissertation? It will get done. It has to. I have to do this. But how I’m going to do it I don’t know.
So. I’ll see you on Twitter?
xo,
P.
Baby slings are your friend. Not a Snugli, a hotsling or a mei tei of some kind.
Right now, I’m looking back at when X was a newborn and thinking, omg, I had so much TIME then! He just…SLEPT!
You’ll be fine. See ya when you get back :)