{"id":918,"date":"2009-08-13T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2009\/08\/13\/thirty-days-with-a-new-baby-a-poem\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T17:55:58","slug":"thirty-days-with-a-new-baby-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/thirty-days-with-a-new-baby-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty days with a new baby, a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

I actually wrote most of this a couple of days ago. And technically, Harlyn won’t hit thirty days until tomorrow. But it’s my blog and I can post it if I want to. Keep in mind, poetry is not necessarily my strong suit. Enjoy!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Right now, as I write this, you lay next to me.
\nJust wiggling by the light of my warm laptop screen.
\nIn the past thirty days, you’ve cooed, stared, and explored.
\nYou’ve cried, burped, and pooped: you’d think we were bored.<\/p>\n

Alas, quite the opposite, if I say so myself!
\nWe have quite a few things on our “need to do” shelf.
\nCaleb starts back to school, Alex is active as ever.
\nWe’re selling our house (which might happen, oh, never<\/em>).<\/p>\n

But on the day you arrived, I shed tears of joy.
\nI was prepared for a third – and, yes, final<\/em> – baby boy<\/em>.
\nI so wanted a girl, you fulfilled my heart’s craving.
\nSomething so small, so sweet, so amazing.<\/p>\n

In your first week you hardly even opened your eyes.
\nIn your second, I noticed how quickly time flies.
\nThe third week, I told myself it wasn’t a dream.
\nNow the fourth week, I’m convinced. We’re an inseparable team.<\/p>\n

I’ll protect you from boys (we’re really quite vile).
\nI’ll give you lots of toys (we’ll add them to the pile).
\nAnd I’ll watch and I’ll worry every day of your life.
\nAll the way to the day you make someone their wife.<\/p>\n

For now, life is filled, once again, with a baby.
\nDiapers are filled, too, but maybe – just maybe,
\nWe can look forward to days where we laugh hard and deep.
\nFor now, please allow us a few hours of sleep.<\/p>\n

It’s an enormous effort to have a baby to raise.
\n(But mostly for mommy; she deserves all the praise).
\nThe days, they drift by in a soft, gentle flow.
\nAlready your birthday seems a lifetime ago.<\/p>\n

So here we both are, just thirty days later.
\nYou’ve already made my life that much greater.
\nAnd though I’m exhausted and my mind is in tatters,
\nYou’re my beautiful girl, and that’s all that matters.<\/p>\n

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I actually wrote most of this a couple of days ago. And technically, Harlyn won’t hit thirty days until tomorrow. But it’s my blog and I can post it if I want to. Keep in mind, poetry is not necessarily my strong suit. Enjoy! Right now, as I write this, you lay next to me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[65,629],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-family","tag-poetry","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}