If I could just take a shower!

After becoming a mom, there are very few things in life that you get just to yourself. Once you are a mom it seems like you share EVERYTHING with these little people. And while you love the little leeches to death, sometimes you just NEED something for yourself that's all to yourself

I feel this way about my showers.

Often, the time I spend taking my shower is the ONLY piece of my day that doesn't involve someone else disturbing me (and yes, unfortunatly it's not uncommon for these disturbances to occur even when I'm using the restroom). I covet my shower time and really look forward to it everyday. Because hey, who doesn't like to be clean? Some days my shower may only last for five minutes but that's five minutes all to myself.

But ever since Max was born 9 days ago, I think I've taken a total of two showers where he wasn't screaming his little head off the whole time. And taking a shower with a baby crying makes my shower time downright unenjoyable. I always try to change and feed him before hand and then get him to fall asleep. I've tried laying him in his bed or letting him nap in the bouncer. It seems to make no difference. Max could be in a dead-to-the-world sleep and as soon as I'm in the shower he will wake up and start crying. It's been very frustrating for me.

The hardest days are the days when I HAVE to wash my hair. If I don't wash my hair, I can get in and out of the shower in around five minutes if need be. But when I have to wash my hair, it takes at least 15 minutes (I have some seriously thick hair and right now it's fairly long too. I could totally have been one of those girls in the '50s who could use the "I have to wash my hair" excuse and left boys wondering if I really DID have to wash my hair or if I was just blowing them off. ). So that means at least 15 minutes of listening to Max cry and cry.

It's horrible.

I HATE listening to him cry. I know it's not going to hurt him (after all, babies just cry sometimes) but like I said, it absolutely ruins my shower time. Rather than be able to enjoy my time, I spend the whole time rushing to get through the shower so I can go and comfort him.

I just want to take a peaceful shower!

In other news, real clothes - the kind without elastic waistbands and obscene amounts of fabric- are wonderful.