Baruch Hashem, I gave birth to a healthy girl just over a month ago. As everyone kept blessing me, she was born quickly and easily and healthily. She was even born in the hospital, but just barely.
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About a week before I gave birth, Husbinator, BSM (11), and BY (5) went away for Shabbos to attend our good friends' oldest son's bar mitzva. I stayed home with FF (8) and Curly Girly (20 months). (Did I give her an internet nickname?) BSM came back having learned something about Life and about Himself, and which demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is growing up: it is more fun to throw candy at the Bar Mitzva boy than to collect the candy that has been thrown.
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I now know why Ema always describes me and Sister as being 20 months apart, as opposed to almost two years apart. I, too, was blessed with a 20-month-old and a newborn. That is not the same thing as an almost-two-year-old and a newborn.
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This is also the first time I've had three kids under 6 years old: my older kids are spaced a little further apart. It is different. I am doing my best to be patient with myself and see what works. Between the flu (first a full-on case for the 20-month-old that I didn't manage to vaccinate, then a mild case for vaccinated me), Purim preparation, looking for daycare for next year, and Pesach preparation (in that order), I can't pretend that I'm not stressed, but overall, I think I am indeed being fairly patient with myself and open to figuring out what works.
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Will blog more some other time.
