Happy Holidays

The holidays are here and if you’re reading this, then you may be elated with the joy that comes from getting up throughout the night, not to look for Santa and the reindeer, but from taking care of your little sugar plums, sometimes known as your beautiful children.  Did you try to keep your eyes pried open as they gleefully tore through wrapping paper. If you’re feeding a new baby, I’m imagining the sweet relief you might feel as you take from the 10 minutes you’ve carved out to have to sit down and connect. Did you pump or mix up a bottle so that someone else had the pleasure of feeding the baby?  Then sit down anyway. Whatever you do, resist the urge to get something else “done”.  You need a break, even if it’s to spend a little more time in the bathroom.
 
It’s a gift when moms are able to pass around the baby. Babies have that magical effect. They give even the most Scrooge like person big jolts of feel good, happy chemicals. Who can resist those adorable toothless grins? Here’s my request, even if your baby spits up, or takes a long time to eat, or burps and belches like some grown men we won’t name here, please pass the baby. Bringing a baby to holiday get togethers is the best gift of all for you, the baby and everyone else. 
 

(The blog was originally posted in 2008)