L and I have hired a mother's helper - really a friend of ours who is out of work right now. She's only going to come 2 days a week for 5 hours per day, and only until I can handle things a bit better, so I'm glad it's someone I know instead of hiring someone we don't know. Definitely more comfortable. She came for the first time today and it was awesome. I got so much done around the house and I think it was better for the girls too - they actually got more time being held and interacted with. Usually I change, feed, put back down quickly because I have to do the other one, and then if they are both "down" I have a few minutes to do something around the house, but it's so stressful and I've really felt bad that they don't have that much time with me. Or anyone. But today I had time to sit with each one of them for awhile and have some girl talk, while A was holding the other one. It was great! And I had real adult conversation as well - win win :) Plus she's doing things exactly the way I want things done (I'm so anal) and I showed her my cloth diapering technique and it's all good!
I hope it continues to work well for you, I can't imagine how you made it this far essentially on your own, or how L has with his work schedule.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you've got some help and things are a little easier :) Sometimes you really need a breather!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad it's going well!
ReplyDeleteYay! This is great! :-) I'm so glad it's working out. :)
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