Looking Back

How things change when the baby arrives! I look at pictures of Dave and I from before we got pregnant, and it seems like another lifetime ago. What on earth did we talk about? I vaguely remember that we both worked during the day and would spend our evenings unwinding together. Sometimes we'd spontaneously go out for coffee or to a friend's house. Those days are over. Now it's all about getting dinner, giving the baby a bath and ready for bed, and trying to get her to sleep early enough for us to spend time together. Too many evenings we end up crashed on the couch, playing pocket solitaire while watching a DVD like my grandparents do. Kinda scary. It's a rut I'd like to break out of, but we're so wiped in the evenings and it's so difficult to go anywhere with a tired baby that we rarely try. The other night we took a quick trip to Sam's Club for diapers after dinner, and Eva cried the whole way in her car seat. We won't be trying that again.