Lazy Days
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:45 PM
This morning I stopped by the home of a friend who had a baby a few weeks ago. Not surprising, my friend was nursing her baby and as she is a pro, she walked out to greet me with the baby easily attached.
I asked how things were going and she said things were going just fine but that she felt for her kids. This summer, she noted, is not quite the same as last.
I could totally feel her pain. Last summer, for us, was that same kind of summer. Last year, we too had a summer with a tiny, precious little newborn who was wonderful and sweet, but who kept us from doing much of anything. The days were filled with feeding Henry, burping Henry, changing Henry and then starting the process all over again.
I remember worrying, as my friend did today, that my boys’ memories of that summer would be of lots of time stuck in the house and us not doing any of the fun things we had done in the past. My idea of a good time last summer was garnering the energy and wherewithal to load everyone in the car and hit a drive-thru for lunch. Fun!
But here we are a year later, and the boys haven’t really had anything bad to say about last summer. What they remember is how fun it was to have a tiny baby to hold, the excitement of a new member of the family. Sure we watched too much television (by my standards), but I think they kind of liked that too.
I reminded my friend what she already knows to be true – that these are short-term concerns. For us, no one was harmed in the making of last summer. And maybe, in the end, it’s actually made us all more appreciative of a “normal” summer this year—with the added benefit of having a Henry along for the ride.
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