Okay people. I don't think I've ever shared this on the blog, and many of you probably don't know about this. From the day Ella was born, we've (okay, after Ella was probably 6 months, "I've") been charting Ella's daily formula (then milk)/food consumption & wet & poopy diapers. What I mean is, we have an Excel spreadsheet filled out for every day of this little girl's life. What she drank/ate, what time, how much, pees, poops, baths, tylenol, any other miscellaneous things that might have gone down on a particular day. Until today. I can't believe it. But, today, I was like, hey, she's 2. If she eats something and drinks some milk, I'm feeling pretty good that she'll be okay. Wow. The previous sentence & what that means took a long time for me to be okay with. Call it being a first time mom, anal mom, obsessive (much?) mom, control freak mom, whatever. I just couldn't stop the charting! I will blame it on the nurses post-delivery. I was breastfeeding and was obviously clueless, so we were told to chart Ella's feedings (times & estimated amounts) and then also keep track of her diaper changes. Well, that just snowballed into a 2 year project....
I'm feeling proud of myself today for letting go of the chart.
p.s. I'll admit, I did track diapers today (but that's it, I swear).
p.p.s. Don't make fun. I know it's insane that I've been doing these daily charts for so long.
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Sooo proud of you Sara!!!! They grow up so fast and rest assured you are doing an amazing job and will continue to do so, you don't need a chart to show you that, you are a mother and God gave you instincts and intuition. Beautiful pics.
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