Returning to Normal??

Returning to Normal??

July 19, 2018

Today we put the TV back into it’s usual spot in the bonus room, we had moved it as a precautionary measure so that it could block the half wall that we have in that room. There use to be a chair in front if it and the boys liked to climb on the chair and look over the railing…hence us moving the TV there. That chair has been there for almost 2 years and to be honest it always looked out of place, the Feng shui seemed wrong.

But today we got to move it back into it’s normal place in that room and I looked around and thought to myself ‘it’s nice to be getting back to normal’. Now don’t get me wrong I understand that I will be going back to my old “normal” as I don’t care to go back there but also I will more than likely have a “new normal” with these two monsters.

What I mean by ‘getting back to normal’ is that things are starting to go back to where they were before we had the babes. The counters were cluttered with a bottle sterilizer, baby brezza (if you don’t know what this is, get one!), bottle dryer, bottles, medicine, thermometers, TV’s in places they shouldn’t have been, missing tables so babies don’t knock their eyes out…you get the picture.

I have slowly in time gotten rid of things off the counters so that they are less cluttered as well as put some things back and in some cases I’ve left the item(s) I put away in storage as I know they’re not ready to have mommy’s breakable candles out yet. Either way though, I am making progress in the right direction of returning things to their rightful place. This makes me happy as not only can I bring things back out but I can also see the changes and growing that’s happening in my babes.

They’re getting so big but they’re at a fun stage right now, I can reason with them, the listen to me and they can comprehend the things I say to them. This allows me to put things back in their place and to know that they aren’t going to touch them. This makes me happy on one hand and sad on the other. My babes are super smart and get this whole growing up things but on the flip side of that, they’re growing up too quickly.

I know that things in my life will never go back to what my ‘old normal’ was but that’s ok as I know my ‘new normal’ will be more fun and exciting. I know that there will be some compromises and possibly some broken hearts (I suspect mine) but I know in time it won’t always be like this. Putting things back to where they were before the babes were born will be the least of my concerns…they’ll be going to college and then I’ll be missing them. But for now, I like the feeling that I’m getting as my babes get older. It gives me hope that yes, things do get easier and it’s not always going to be so hard. Whatever my new normal is, I can’t wait to see where it takes me and my little family that I love so dearly.