Date Night

      When you are a parent, finding time alone can be difficult. Finding time with your partner can be damn near impossible! It is so important to set aside one day a week (if you can) to have date night. Max and I dropped off our little Junebug with my sister and snuck away to see a movie and a free comedy show. My sister actually ended up letting us take the ENTIRE night off and getting a good night's rest on top of it! It was our first night away from June and it was terrifying, but boy am I glad we did it. Take advantage of those opportunities ladies! Your little one will be fine and you will feel slightly back to your normal self. 

      We had so much fun on our date, laughing and drinking like when we first met. We didn't feel like parents, we felt like kids! Just to be able to have conversation and alone time without being interrupted by a hungry little hippo - that's her new nickname, what with all the cluster feeding she has been doing - it was perfect and I plan on making it a weekly thing.

     We spent our Sunday organizing the house. It started with an ant infestation (I left the salad out - my bad) and turned into a full day of cleaning house. Max offered to watch June as I tackled the nursery. She started to get fussy and I told him to give her some milk I had pumped and rock her to sleep for her afternoon nap. I listened to him struggling to get her down for about fifteen minutes. He finally came in and said, "I swear it's like she knows! I rock her to sleep and the second I sit down she wakes up crying!" I can't even tell you how good it felt. To have him see why it is so hard to get anything done around the house, to have him understand the frustration of never having a second alone. It's always nice when hard work is recognized, but you don't always get that as a mom. No one truly understands the amount of work it takes. Now try doing it all day, every day with no sleep! Ha! Didn't think so....