A Long and Winding Road

Well, another phase of my Mommy life is winding down. Paige and I are on the tail end of our breastfeeding journey. My goal with Paige was to nurse for 2 years and then wean down after that. So here we are - she's 2! 

I'm honestly ready {the last 6 months have been kind of trying for me with breastfeeding} but also it's another 'never going to happen again' motherhood experience for me. Last pregnancy, last birth story, last everything. Luckily, I knew going into everything with Paige that she would be our last, and I've felt so much peace about every 'last' with her. But this one is kind of the last of the 'baby' experiences, so I've been thinking about it a lot more.

In reality, it will be nice to 100% own my body again, to make our bedtime routine go faster, to not have any more wounds, to not ruin all my bras, etc., but it's also such an amazing experience, and I recognize how lucky I am to have had 3 extremely successful breastfeeding relationships.

I really want to make it another month or so and get winter behind us, so I'm not in a huge rush, but it's also weird the finality of all these lasts with Paige. Motherhood is such a huge bag of mixed emotions, am I right???

In the first update I did after Paige was born, when she was a week old, I joked about having 1 week of breastfeeding behind us and only 103 more to go. And here we are, past that mark and barreling toward a future of no more babies. Hold me!

I'm so thankful I have pictures from Paige's birth of our first time nursing together. I will cherish them forever.

Movie Review: Green Book

Allison and I finally saw an Oscar nominated film...and spoiler alert...we loved it! One of the reasons we haven't been as eager this year to see all the nominated films is how underwhelmed we've been with many of the nominations over the last few years. Well, we hit a winner!!

Plot: A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Review: As I mentioned above, Allison and I both really enjoyed Green Book. The story hit all the right notes - I like how I saw it described as a comedy-drama - I laughed, I was on pins-and-needles for certain parts, it felt relevant as we still deal with way too much racial tension, the characters were likable and felt very real. I really want to see this movie again! Given how much I liked it, I highly doubt it will win Best Picture, but I could easily see the 2 actors winning awards - they were amazing. This is definitely one I think anyone would enjoy!

Without much trying, I've now seen half of the movies nominated for Best Picture {Black Panther - rented with Trent, Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star is Born, and this}. With BlacKkKlansman and Roma being online already, I think I might be able to still hit all 8 by the end of the month, yay! What's even more shocking is I've REALLY liked everything I've seen so far!! I wonder if the remaining 4 will hold up?!