My family in order, Our life in place
Sometimes when you’re deep in the gamut of raising babies you live in a phenomena that Matt and I call “treading water”. You’re not really getting anywhere closer to the island you’re just trying to stay above water and not drown. Maybe a floating plank gives you some respite for a while but mostly you’re gonna get back to treading water. Until one magical day… you don’t quite realize is it as it happens but your babies are sleeping in beds, sleeping all night, communicating, peeing in toilets, and you turn off the baby monitor all night. You’re no longer treading water. You’re able to swim toward a destination and even stop at little islands along the way and prolong drowning. Maybe even recreationally swim or enjoy a sunset. Until that time you’re not really thinking long term. Which is actually good. Just surviving the day to day is the way to go. Suffice is the trouble for the day etc. But once survival becomes insufficient, the goals, identity, values, and dreams of your fami...