The Ramblings Of Jenn Shuey

Yes my little girl is now 1 month old, and I can’t believe it!  I don’t feel like she’s been here that long, but I guess a big part of that is the fact that I spent the first 9 days laid up in a hospital bed. 

She’s surprising me everyday, and it amazes me how fast she’s growing.  A few days ago I noticed her preemie clothes were starting to get a little snug, and by the end of the weekend she couldn’t straighten her legs in any of her preemie sleepers.  We have officially moved on up to newborn size!  I guess that’s only fitting since her actual due date falls on Turkey Day.

Speaking of Turkey Day, as the mother of the only grandchild on either side of the family I’m also learning how hectic things are going to be for us this year.  We’ll be running all over the place tomorrow because every grandparent and great grandparent expect to have the baby at Thanksgiving dinner.  Hubby will be happy because he’ll have plenty of excuses to eat all he can, but I have a feeling I’ll be thoroughly exhausted.  Then we get to turn around and do this all over again in a month for Christmas! 

Things are definitely going to be a lot different this holiday season, that’s for sure.  We’ll be planning everything around the baby instead of us.  Even the items on my Christmas gift wish list have changed.  I’ve gone from scoping out things I’d want like BCBG Max Azria handbags to checking out diaper bags. Instead of buying another tv as our joint Christmas present to each other we’re looking at baby swings. Yep, things are definitely going to be a lot different this year.  What scares me is knowing how many gifts this child will probably get from her Grandparents.  We already received so much stuff in our baby showers that we don’t have enough room to put it all in the nursery.  I don’t know what we’ll do when Christmas gets here because the Grandparents are already buying like crazy.  I may just have to start moving things into storage.  I can at least pack up the clothes she won’t wear until Summer and move those to the attic.  The problem is I never have the time to actually do it.