Jennifer and Jack's Blog – May 2011 Archive (3)

It has been a long road for me the past several years, I lost someone I loved dearly to a horrible lung disease, I actually held his hand and watched him take his last breath, and a few months later, I lost another best friend to the same disease,  I moved out of my home state to a state virtually with only knowing one family that is only here part time at best. I have had to give up my job for the most part, my health has nose dived dramatically and to boot my closest friend down here, a…

Today I started watching a six week old baby, a friend of mines baby. I was pretty nervous about how Jack would be with the baby since he likes to be the center of attention. I didn't have a lot of time to research them meeting each other because it was kind of last minute.

So I brought the baby home, Jack was so excited. He was hyper actually, so I put him in a down stay for a few minutes. He wanted to see the baby, I let him smell the infant seat, and then the baby. ( The…

If being a mother means putting your "child" first, giving the best you have to them and going without yourself. If it means you do for them even if you are tired, sick, run down, too busy or flat out exhausted. If it means when they are real little you take them potty every twenty minutes, if it means you celebrate each landmark they make, such as sit, stay, walk, heel, (or crawl, walk) whatever, If it means worrying over making the right decision, worrying about not worrying enough,…