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Feeding time at the zoo…

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Yesterday was the first time in awhile I cooked dinner. It was just me and Gianna, matt was working late. I had made tacos for dinner and a chickpea salad which is such an easy side dish or even snack, Im going to give you the recipe I use. Anytime I am in the kitchen by the counter Gianna just knows that I am cooking or there is food up there and she immediately wants it. She screams and screams for me to pick her up so she can see what she’s missing out on. I needed to cook dinner so I made her a quick pb&j sandwich with my new cut-n-seal from pampered chef. This gave me a total of 10-15 mins to prep. I had no idea my daughter was going to be so crazy when it came to food I literally cannot eat or have food out in front of her. Anyone else babies like this?!? It is so exhausting, sad to say but I have hid in the bathroom to eat a snack lol.

I made it through her temper tantrum, I cooked dinner and I was happy. I prepped her plate so that I could also enjoy dinner. I always find it hard for me to actually enjoy my meal because I’m so busy trying to make sure she has enough food, she’s drinking her water, picking up the food she dropped, and the list goes on. Im still trying to figure out ways to make eating our meals easier so if anyone has helpful tips let me know =) Side note- its usually just me and her since my husbands hours are all over the place so thats why its been so difficult for me to work through this.

Clearly loving her food

Chickpea Salad:

  • 1-2 cans of chickpeas ( one can is good for 2 people )
  • 1 red onion
  • 1/2 cup of feta crumbles
  • 1/4 cup of cherry tomatoes
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • Olive oil or a mixture of mayo & honey dijon with a little bit of sweet relish.

** don’t add too much honey dijon it could be a bit spicy. **

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Teething is the devil

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Good morning everyone!

Its almost 8am and I’ve been up since roughly 4am with a teething baby who has two molars coming in. (Send help) Her sleeping patters for the last two weeks have been absolutely awful and I am loosing it. The constant whining and crying all day, and then at night she’s up every 3-4 hours and it takes about 45 mins to get her back to sleep, so clearly we aren’t getting much sleep over here. And like clockwork she is up everyday at 6:20am!!! It makes no sense, how is she not tired?!

After about 2-3 weeks of the same thing is when sleep deprivation starts to set in for me and I get into this funk where I don’t have the energy which makes sense because I haven’t had a decent nights sleep in weeks, and my PPD/PPA starts up again. I can just feel it, I’m emotional, I’m angry, I can’t think straight, I don’t want to be around anyone , and everything bothers me. It doesn’t just affect me emotionally , its mentally and physically too. I don’t have the energy to do anything but I have too, because I can’t sit inside with a 14 month old all day, the idea of cooking dinner just exhausts me. It affects my daily routine like crazy, I try so hard to work on myself day by day and then I’m completely thrown off from lack of sleep. If you’re reading this and you have some helpful tips/tricks to help gianna with teething and sleeping longer I would greatly appreciate it. At this point I’m willing to try whatever. Now its time for more coffee, hope you all have a great day!