Shower

Two things became official for me this week....I am officially a stay-at-home mom (job is over!) and I am also officially on vacation...well sort of.  A mom is never on vacation of course.  But I am visiting my family for a while in PA/NJ.   As I began this week I have been thinking of more things that have changed meaning and purpose since becoming a mom.  Like a shower!

Before I had Will, a shower was a way to get clean.  Hop in..use some fancy lather smelly soap...and hop out.  Then after Will came, a shower became a really painful thing.  After delivery everything was uncomfortable and there were certain areas I just didn't want to get wet.  So I dreaded the shower as a painful chore.  A few weeks later (okay more like a month..childbirth forever altered my body!) a shower became an escape.  It was a moment that Will wasn't attached to my body and someone else had him and I didn't feel bad about it.  After all...a shower was something I HAD to take.  With the spray from the shower head, I felt myself relaxing and I would stay in there for like 20 minutes.  But as the months have gone on...a shower has become a circus nightmare.  Adam is often gone by the time I get to take a shower, so I bring Will into the bathroom...check the safety locks on all the cabinets...put out a few trucks and my deoderant (Will is obsessed with deoderant containers) and hope in.  I grab the first soap I can find (sometimes Adams) and try and get out of there before Will comes around the side of the tub and tries to get in.  There is NO personal space as a mom.  

So this morning..now that I am on vacation, my sister watched Will while I took a shower and it was amazing.  I shaved my legs (woo hoo) and lathered in the good soap and let the water run over my head.  I LOVE showers again!  So when I get back from vacation..if anyone wants to come over in the morning so that I can shower..just let me know!

I'm having a great time at my parents new house in Newtown Square, PA while Adam is off on guys weekend at the Jersey Shore.  Will and I are going to go down and meet him on Sunday for the week after all the male craziness is over.  I'll have lots of pictures to post then!