The First Few Nights...

After putting our kids to bed the other night (thankfully they are very good sleepers now-Paco wasn't always), I was thinking about those first few nights in a home when your first child is born.

My brother and sister-in-law have been experiencing that and I was just thinking about the intensity of those first few nights. The fatigue. The nervousness that you are "doing something wrong." (That part goes away with later children, when you stop caring. Ok, that was a joke.)

It's an intense feeling and your awareness that life has changed dramatically forever and there is this other lifeforce in your sphere.

That's a great feeling.

Being fatigued...not so much.