This is my first “five minute friday”. I have been wanting to join for awhile, but I always seem to forget. FINALLY I remembered, and get to write on a friday.
The rules from Gypsy mama “Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.”
She gives a new topic every week. This week, the topic is “Rest”
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Rest…
A word foreign to most new mother’s, and in most ways, myself included. Rest for me no longer comes in long afternoon naps, or sleeping in late after a long day of work/housework. It no longer comes in sitting out in the sun with a good book, or a long shower to sooth tired muscles and release tension in my head. those days of rest are over. The days of sleeping through the night are over. These days I feel abundantly blessed if I get 6 consecutive hours of sleep. Oh how I would love to sleep again, and truly “rest” in even just one of the ways described above. But I cannot.
This is not upsetting to me though. my little boy brings me such joy and laughter, I cannot be bitter about what I have lost, because I have gained so much. I have gained the restful feeling of nursing my son as he sleeps and eats at the same time. I have gained the wonderful beauty of a moments rest cuddling with my hubby on the couch before I run off to bed because the baby is sleeping and I’m hoping to get 6 or 7 hours of sleep tonight. I have gained so much with the life of my son, and in comparison, I have lost so little. I have gained a son, I have gained joy, I have gained appreciation for every small bit of rest I am given. I have gained appreciation for life and the blessings God has given me. Compared with that, the loss of a nap or a restful bath seem irrelevant.
**** end. I think I may have cheated and gone for 6 minutes :/ oops!
aseedinspired.com says
so true.
rest is so much tastier when you work so much harder to get it.
T
Tiffany says
Love this! It takes me back… my little girl (just turned two) has just recently started sleeping through the night. It’s heavenly… but, at the same time, I find myself missing those nights with her, nursing and snoozing together.
Honestly, it was very hard at first to be without sleep, and then get up and go to work, but it gets much easier. Your body just adjusts to a little less rest than normal. And the whole sleeping through the night thing? If you just let it happen, it really sneaks up on you! I can’t tell you when in the past month Paityn started sleeping through the night, but I just realized yesterday morning that she does. Huh… ;)
Stopping by from The Gypsy Mama!