Parenting Alexis has become the greatest joy in my life. Now don’t get me wrong I love my wife and I love my job, but when I come home from a long day at work and my daughter looks up at me with her expressive eyes and smiles, it just melts my heart.
I never knew what I was missing until that little girl entered my world.
Why didn’t anyone tell me? Well you probably did, but I was probably just not ready to listen.
Parenting Alexis has quickly helped me realize some very important things:
- My diet lacks the amount of protein it takes to make it through a day work and a night of feeding the baby. In June I started tracking the amount of sugar I was in taking and I was off the chart with how unhealthy my life had become.
- When you have a child you learn to shelf your dreams very quickly and start to dream new dreams for your child and their life. I want everything for Alexis and a few bike rides for myself. I also quickly realized when I volunteered for the late night shift that sleeping 8 hours straight was a luxury and that I would literally not remember a dream from my sleep for nearly four months.
- I understand parenting a whole lot better now that I have started to do it. And to be brutally honest: parenting takes a lot of work, I mean I can not even fathom how single moms or dads do it. After 3 months of taking care of a hungry, sometimes teething but otherwise well behaved baby I still find myself sitting her in a chair in front of the TV so that I can get things done. TV is the laziest form of parenting. Using the TV to babysit my daughter so that I can do stuff is absolutely the worst excuse for a parent that I can give. . . yet I do it almost everyday.
Slowly I am learning and growing up as I help my wife raise our growing, happy and healthy daughter. Each day makes me more grateful for the blessings I have been given.
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08/15/2010
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