Morning Wake Up Call

Each day my morning starts when I wake up to feed Eva. This usually happens sometime between 6:30 - 7:30 am. This morning she surprised me by sleeping in until 8:00 am! I actually woke her up because I realized that we need to have time for me to feed her and get ready to leave on time for our first Sunday back at church. Usually when we have somewhere to be it is either later in the day or I have Ryan's help getting ready. Since he has to be at church way earlier than I do, today I was stuck in a bit of a bind. I decided that since it was my first Sunday at church in a month, a shower would be an appropriate way to bless others. I also needed to eat. And do my hair and make up....hmm. How do I get all of this done in under 2 hours with a baby?!?!?! And a dog.

After feeding her (which takes about 30 - 45 minutes) I put her on her boppy pillow and ate my breakfast on the couch while talking and making silly faces at her. Since our daily pattern goes eat/play/sleep I knew I couldn't just put her back to sleep for a while. I decided that the best way for me to get the shower in was to set up her swing in our room facing into the bathroom so that I could continue to make silly faces and talk to her while I got ready. She did good while I showered thanks to the oh so charming musical tunes that her swing plays. I got my make up on without any glitches. And then of course when I'm blow drying my hair she falls asleep. This would have been fine except that by that point I knew I'd have to take her out of her swing and put her in the car seat within 10 minutes.

Finally we were both ready to go. I open the door and start to walk down stairs to the parking lot, suddenly realizing that it's raining. Pouring. I almost called it quits to have a movie and pjs day instead, but who wants to waste a good shower? So I draped a blanket over her and made a mad (but safe) dash to the car. We made it on time to church. Even early, which is impressive because I'm rarely early anywhere. But it was a challenge. I can't imagine being a single mom and doing that every morning to get kids to school and me to work. If you are a single mom, I congratulate you on getting things done!