When you GET TO, you’ve GOT TO.

There is a transition. It starts with a perfectly legitimate and (questionably) wonderful season when you give up the reigns on your old life almost entirely for the sake of growing a little one. Your daily groove is entirely different, you brush teeth then eat, miss the workout and nap instead, and using the bathroom while nursing ain’t no thing! This is all fine for a season. It’s the normal adjustment. It may not feel all peachy, but it’s normal. You were thinking it was prisoner status in your own home until baby is at least 6 months? Don’t worry, it will be less.

Then there is this subtle shift that happens. When baby starts to build capacity in a few things like feeding, napping and car rides. Your flow starts to increase. These windows of opportunity arise when you actually GET TO. You get to do the things you have been used to missing for the past season. When this happens, this subtle shift that only you can identify, you have GOT TO. You’ve got to capitalize on it. A heads up, it can be tricky, because you are so used to not getting to do it (reading, exercise, art, your life purpose project) for such a long time that when it shifts you can miss it. Watch for the shift mamas. This shift is there for all of us. Be ready. You’ve GOT TO.

“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents. – Psychologist Carl Jung