The mommy break

At the advice of our family doctor, Adam stayed home with Ilya this afternoon while I took my “mommy break.”  This is an uninterrupted two hour break where I get to stop being just mommy and focus on reconnecting with who I am.  I failed.  The first hour went great.  I went to the library and got a book then took off to a coffee shop to read and people watch.  After about an hour, though, I missed Adam and Ilya so much I came home.  Maybe I’ll do better next time.  I think that it was good for Adam, too.  He got to spend time alone with Ilya.

We are trying to get Ilya on some sort of a schedule (also a recommendation of our doctor).  Last night, we began a bedtime routine and today we have planned nap times.  Even planning this, I was thinking there was no way an infant was going to fit into any schedule that I had planned for her, but I was so wrong.  After our bedtime routine last night, she slept 5 hours and she didn’t even kick me once during that time.  We got up at 8 and she has been so cooperative in napping when we want her to all day.  She is clearly gifted.  It probably helped that we made our schedule based on her sleepy times.