Oh how I hate that word. Routine. Despise it. Always have. Always will. And yet they seem to create naturally in my life.
There is one part of our morning routine, on non-nursery mornings, that hasn’t changed since Adam was born and Simon went off Paternity Leave that I adore.
After he gets out of the shower, Simon calls to Adam to join him in our bedroom. Obviously when Adam was a baby, Simon would come get him! And that’s Daddy and Adam before work time. When Adam was a baby he would lie on our bed, securely in the middle, and Simon would play and talk to him. Now that he’s older they still play on the bed but there’s usually tickling and poking and rolling around going on.
That’s my time, that 20ish minutes. To drink a cup of coffee. To read the internet in peace. To gear up to being 100% responsible for Adam until Simon comes home from work.
I didn’t get that 20 minutes the last week or so since Adam’s been so ill again. And I didn’t realize how truly precious it was until yesterday when he felt well enough again to go play with Daddy on the bed.
That was the best cup of coffee I have ever had.
Hands down.
First thing in the morning isolation is the BEST time of day in my opinion 🙂
LOVE mooching around on the bed with baby and/or toddler (in our house I probably do more of that than DP). And it’s great that Adam is feeling better; long may it last.