Earlier today, I realized I hadn’t filled in some key info in Jaia’s baby book – exactly what I said I’d never do.\u00a0 I, like many of my friends, have a baby book that is only partially filled out.\u00a0 Most of the key info is there, but a lot of pages are blank, especially near the end of the book.<\/p>\n
I swore that when I had a baby, I would fill out every page and make sure no detail was left out.\u00a0 And then\u00a0I had a baby and realized that time to sit and compose in a book is not always available.\u00a0 Make that beyond rare.\u00a0 And I finally understand why my baby book was only half full.\u00a0 Moms do what they can…<\/p>\n
But then tonight, I made time to work on keeping my promise to fill-out Jaia’s book.\u00a0 I figured I was glued to the couch watching ‘Must See TV’ (do they still call it that?), so I might as well multi-task.\u00a0 I opened up Jaia’s Big Book of Me<\/em>, looked at some of the missing information and immediately felt bad for not remembering some of the key dates.\u00a0 How could I have not written when Jaia first rolled over or when she ate solids for the first time.\u00a0 Bad mama, bad mama.<\/p>\n But then, as I posted the photo for day 291, I realized that though I haven’t been writing down the mini-milestones with a pen, I’d been typing them up on an almost daily basis (ok, some weeks were better for the POTD than others).\u00a0 So when I needed to find the specific date that Jaia did something spectucular (I’m her mama, it’s all spectacular), I could just use the search function at the top of the page and there they were.\u00a0 March 21 (rolling over) and June 1 (solids), in case you were wondering.<\/p>\n Every once in awhile I question why I started trying to post a photo every day.\u00a0 Some days it’s near impossible to find the time and then I feel guilty when I don’t do it.\u00a0 But then, on a day like today, I realize that it was all worth it.\u00a0 So worth it.\u00a0 Without realizing I was doing it, I’ve documented almost every day of the first nine and a half months of Jaia’s life…all thanks to forgetful.ca.\u00a0 Like I needed another reason to continue.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier today, I realized I hadn’t filled in some key info in Jaia’s baby book – exactly what I said I’d never do.\u00a0 I, like many of my friends, have a baby book that is only partially filled out.\u00a0 Most of the key info is there, but a lot of pages are blank, especially near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}