A Day in the Life: Things to Do While the Baby's Sleeping

I don't have much to talk about yet but I felt compelled to write because Eleni is taking a nap and for once...she's asleep in her bed!! It seems that when she naps her preferred place to sleep is on me. If I try to put her in her bed she screams so loud that the neighbours are probably starting to think I'm a terrible mother. Anyway, this needed to be documented....

Saturday September 15th:

Eleni took a nap in her bed

Mommy had a glass of wine and blogged

Big day.

Speaking of napping, this is why I don't really have anything to talk about yet. Our day looks like this:

Sleep

Wake up

Cry

Eat

Poop

Act incredibly cute for 5 minutes

Repeat

And while Antonis is doing that, the baby and I are.....just kidding! (Love you Baby!)

Obviously that's the baby's routine for the moment (the little one, not the big one...speaking of which, Antonis and I need new pet names for each other...it's getting confusing with all 3 of us being called Baby).

Anyway, the "Act incredibly cute for 5 minutes" stage will eventually turn into 10 minutes, then 20, then 30 and so on and THEN I'll have some interesting stuff to write about....probably. As for right now, I'm pretty much out of material. Other than the fact that she's SO FREAKIN CUTE!!!! And I love her to pieces!!! But how many times can I write that before you guys get bored and stop reading my blog? (because most of you are family and close friends I'd like to think you'd let me get away with that as often as I want, but lets be serious...we all have our limits).

Something that I'm usually thinking about these days though is what to do while Eleni is napping. I can't do anything while she's awake other than focus totally on her, so while she's sleeping I have to figure out how to quickly and efficiently take care of everything else that needs to be taken care of. This has become a bit of a challenge.

So this is what I should do while she's sleeping:

eat
sleep
shower
brush my teeth
get dressed
see if I can do yoga yet
clean the house
blog
return emails
call people so they know I'm still alive
email people so they know I'm still alive

There's probably more things I can add to that list but that's usually the stuff I'm madly trying to accomplish in the tiny intervals of alone time I get during the day. Actually that's a total lie, I'm not madly trying to accomplish anything. Those are the things I'm THINKING about accomplishing.

So this is what I actually do while she's sleeping:

stare at her
be amazed by how beautiful she is
gently tickle her or play with her toes so she'll slowly wake up and hang out with me again

That's the truth.

Thankfully there's a tradition here that you shouldn't visit a new mom and baby until 40 days after the baby's born. So other than Antonis and occasionally his mom, I have the freedom to sit here unshowered, in yesterday's clothes, morning breath, starving and exhausted but contently staring at my little baby, hoping she'll wake up so I can change a dirty diaper.

WHO IS THIS WOMAN?!?!

This time last year I was probably on my 2nd bottle of wine, smoking a cigarette and contemplating what terrible 90s song I should sing karaoke to next....actually it's only 9:30pm right now so I would have still been working. But I would have been watching the clock and waiting for the last people to leave so I could drink wine, smoke cigarettes and sing karaoke.

It's amazing how much can change in a year.

I remember saying that just after Antonis and I got married. And I thought life had dramatically changed then?? Pffffft! Little did I know how much it would change 3 years later.

I'm not going to dare wonder what will happen next. I'd like to think things will just carrying on at a normal pace now but with my luck, the next time we decide to have a baby I'll get pregnant with twins. Or triplets. Or puppies. Did I tell you I was having a glass of wine? It's amazing how fast a few sips hit you after being completely sober for 9 months!

Anyway, so that's what I'm doing with my time lately. Taking care of the baby and then while she's sleeping I'm hoping she'll wake up again so I can take care of her some more. Yes, I know it's important to take care of myself too, but I can't help it! Look how cute she is!

Looking sleepy on theo Lefteri

Awwww!

By the way, this was at our restaurant. She's 11 days old here and I decided it was time to get out of the house. The 40 days that I mentioned before, it's not just that people aren't supposed to come to your house but you're also not supposed to leave the house....yeah right! Eleni and I have gone to the restaurant twice and have made 2 trips to Mytilini already and she'll be 3 weeks old on Monday. 40 days being stuck inside my house sounds like a recipe for postpartum depression if you ask me!