It’s the end of the world….
as you know it.. It’s the end of the world as you know it. It’s not in honor of REM’s breakup I write these words, but it’s in honor of myself – looking back almost three months in time.
There I was – feeling like these exact words – it’s the end of the world as you know it, was written particulary for me, as I was pushing that baby out – knowing that this was the beginning of a new world order. Even though it wasn’t the first time I had this exact same feeling, it still came creeping upon me. So here we are having new sleeping patterns, new routines – if you can call it routines when they change every second day. We also have a new type of crying in addition to the crying we already had – the toddler cry. Now we even have crying in stereo.
The biggest challenge with having two small children is that the toddler can be a little raccoon at those times you really don’t need it – when mommy is either changing diapers or nursing, or when the little brother is crying.
On the other hand we also have a toddler who wants to hold the little brother and cuddle with him. And not the least a toddler-girl, who demands – when we sing “The wheels on the bus”, to sing “Norah & Julian go I love you”, just like the course-line “the mommy and the daddy go I love you (…).” Then she officially melts every heart in the country.
Luckily, when everything is happening all at once, mrs. multitasking momma arises. Like today. Norah was cranky. Julian was crying – of course at the same time. To top it all, the tomato plant standing on the patio’s fence blew down on the parking spot beneath. Thank God no car was present. Obviously I had to act quick, before the owner of the parking spot returned. So what I did was to put Julian in his bed – turn on the mobile. Then put on Netflix – search for Dora and then put her on. Finally – and at last, run out to get my tomato plant. Yes, I managed!
It was the end of the world as I knew it, and day by day the new world gets a little more familiar than the day before.