Have you picked a name? What's the baby's sex? Breast or bottle feed? What kind of car are you buying? What kind of car seat? stroller? baby carrier? Are you having an epidural? Which pre-school are you looking at? Have you bought a crib? When is your shower? Where are you registered? What is your nursery theme? Are you going to circumcise a boy? Have you picked out names?
All these questions...I have no answers. I am totally winging it at this point. I have a generic sense that I should have answers, but I don't. And guess what? I don't care!
I have a real sense of confidence about being a mom. I'm confident I'm going to screw things up. I'm confident that my kid will be bad occasionally and I will laugh when I should correct. I'm confident I'll get poop on me and want to puke. I'm confident I'll be tired and grumpy and hard to live with. I'm confident that I don't have a clue how hard it will be. I'm also confident I can deal with all of it. I can get through it and love it and, if I make a mistake, I can try to correct it. I'm confident I will be good enough for the challenge.
So, I don't have the answers and I'm winging it. No big plan except show up. Just doing what it takes to get through today and not really worrying too much about tomorrow. Isn't that what all parents do at some level?
I was totally a winger, too.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't even find out the sex with William.... we did all the nursery crap and showers after he came.
Hee hee, was I a little too much on Sunday? I don't think most of the time people even really want answers, they just want to talk baby stuff with you. You know we winged it, we didn't even have the crib until after X was born.
ReplyDeleteMrs.Fitz,
ReplyDeleteI started writing this post a couple weeks ago and just picked it back up yesterday. You were great Sunday! I love talking about baby stuff, obviously.