So very understandable.

Stay there as long as you can...well, at least until you have to pee. Noah is adorable.

Beautiful. He's just beautiful.

i think you've made the right decision.

I know exaclty how you feel.....and I know exactly why youre not moving from that spot. It's just the best thing EVER!

Ahhh my eyes. Why is he so cute and cuddly??

I have a sneaking suspicion that if you put off some of those things, ie the dishes and the folding of the laundry, someone will come along and do it later. So, just leave it.

Yep. That just about says it all.

beautiful

Look. At. Those. Eyelashes.

And I can almost smell the baby head from here.

Makes me wish I were not in my office, but rather at home with a baby sleeping in my lap. Not that I even have a baby. But maybe I could borrow one.

Don't move a muscle. Everything else can wait.

I think the picture just lowered my blood pressure. *deep breath* Thanks...I needed it.

Amy,

I love that you say "needs scooped". I say that too and got lots of hell from my friends when I moved away from the PA/Delaware area. I really had no idea that the stairs needed painting, not painted until I moved away :) I love it.

my son started holding his head up before many other babies his age.

my son started sitting earlier, crawling earlier, teething earlier, pulling up earlier . . .

but then we hit this lull. at 11 months, he's not waving or clapping or saying anything except chatter.

so, no worries, noah isn't the only one not waving. but i'm not worrying about my child either, because i'm thinking he just thinks waving and clapping are far less entertaining than poking the cat in the eyeball and watching him jump across the room or pulling each and every toy out of the toybox and seeing how far he can throw them.

must be one of those days. I held my little guy (a month younger than Noah) after his morning bottle, rocking him till he fell back asleep on my shoulder, and dozed in the glider with him. Enjoy.

Loyal lurker...

What happened to the babysitter???

I wouldn't put him down, either. He probably smells great, too.

Amalah, thank you for putting words to how I feel almost every single day. Also, your boy is gorgeous.

This is one of those precious mom times...enjoy it. There will always be things to do and time to do them in.

Chalk this up to another of those "No one tells you" things. Sometimes we moms just *need* to hold our babies all day.

Unfortunately, your list sounds like my house. And since I have no baby small enough to hold, I should probably check things off that list!! But I do have a bad cold and I think that is a lovely excuse for not doing anything!!

Snuggle with that delicious baby. Right now I should be cleaning out the playroom, but my six year old and toddler are playing deliriously upstairs with the new kitten, and i'm baking cookies. Because, well, I think we need cookies.

Oh, and the Diaper Genie? We use the Budget Diaper Genie, which is plastic grocery bags for a dirty diaper, and then stuffed in the garbage. There ya go. :)

A beautiful baby boy, to be sure. And it sounds like you're doing just fine. Ditch the diaper genie though. Those things are just a waste of space and not so good for the air one breathes. Easier to just pitch the wet ones and trot the others out to the outdoors bin.

hi! just started reading your site a few weeks ago (found you via zoot).

i know what you mean and how you feel. my house is upside down, i work from home and take care of my 9.5 month old. she watches too much tv at times, but that's just how it has to be every now and then.

it's tough to be at home all day long, but those moments...

priceless :D

What a great post and picture. Noah is adorable. But you know that.

I hope your day is wonderful and not productive at all!

Very nice.

And, productive! You singlehandedly (literally) made a to-do list while you snuggled the chunk. Well played!

I'm always behind, too. And it really doesn't matter. I won't regret housework left undone--but I will regret any missed opportunities to cuddle with my boy before he gets too old to let me.

Beautiful post.

Thanks for writing this. I have been trying to explain how a mommy's head works to my S.O. for about two years now. I forwarded your blog to him and it helped out. Thanks for writing my head!

Awesome.

I went through this very line of thinking just this morning. Then I reminded myself this baby stage will be over so soon. I want to enjoy every moment I can get.

I enjoy your blog, & Smackdown, & Club Mom (even though I'm not a mom) & oh, you do make me laugh, but this?

Best. Post. Ever.

Enjoy every second.

Sleeping is the only way I ge to hold my 10 month old.
And...
who cares if he can't wave bye-bye right now,
He is so darn cute.

Thanks for reminding me to eat lunch. Gotta go.

You still use a diaper genie?! That thing is a pain in the you know what.
:) Kellyelle
www.makeupmotherhood.blogspot.com

I would totally let Noah sleep on my lap too.

seriously. nothing cuter than a sleeping baby...

He is so sweet. I truly think he is the cutest baby boy I have ever seen... I can say that since I have a girl.

Treasure these stolen moments of time. They become a memory too soon.

How sweet!!

Invoicing ... delicious baby ... invoicing ... delicious baby ...

That's a tough one, Aim.

I do the same thing all the time- one day he will be too cool to sit on your lap and then you can clean and do all the other stuff that "needs" to be done.

And that is why I'm so regularly late to work. And every other place I'm supposed to be at a given time.

The world can and should be put on hold for a sleeping baby.

The babysitter went back to college. Stupid college. I hate college!

You are absolutely right. That is the thing you should really be doing, that boy is munchable!

Shoulda... Coulda... Woulda... But better than all of those gross responsilities that you "shoulda" done is that amazing little fella and the fact that ONLY as a work at home mom can you sit there and dream with Noah! Man, does it get better than that?

I was going to comment on Noah until I saw the meatsticks thing. It sounds dirty and delicious at the same time. I wonder if it would be too weird if I bought a jar of baby food, tequila, vodka, wine, and beer. I'm out of the latter four and "meatsticks" just seem like an appropriate appetizer.

Meatsticks (somewhat...MEATSTICKS MEATSTICKS MEATSTICKS) out of my system, damn, you have one cute kid.

You did it! You managed to capture the reason we put off so much in our lives... for those fleeting moments of pure peace. I wish I had a picture like the one you posted. I have no pictures of the brief quiet moments that I shared with any of my 3 kids. Thanks for the memory.

I've always been a little jealous of the notion that women who work outside the home leave the house in the morning and when they come home at night it's still in the same condition.

Now, there's no accounting to what condition it was left in, but I always imagine immaculate tidiness and think, "Damn, that'd be nice..."

Thank you Thank you Thank you.

Here I am at work, and I can right now remember the smell of my own babies heads, sleeping in my lap, KNOWING that I had a million other things to do, and not giving a damn. At that moment, that is all that matters - that very precious and fleeting moment of joy and peace and ultimate love.