It’s my daughter’s one year birthday this month, and I’m sorry to sound so terribly cliche, but it really is astounding how quickly time can go by. I wanted to make sure to capture in this post some of what the first year with two young kids was really like – the bad and the good and the regular. Some of my thoughts:
1. Not to start things on a downer, but for many personal reasons, this was one of the worst years of my life. There were often times that I felt very depressed, sometimes close to a point where it frightened me. Not that the takeaway should be that having a child depresses you – though postpartum is something I could talk about in a whole other post – but if you already have a lot of stresses in your life, a new baby on top of a temperamental toddler can definitely compound it. It’s really important, to make sure that you are also taken care of. I can’t stress this enough. That being said… Continue Reading
