@Bandage donāt worry about all this shit.
With one sprog itās heaven. Make sure herself feeds from the tap and later that the local does baby bowls.
Youāll have another year and a half with a designated driver and loads of sneaky pints at lunch or dinner.
Timing of the feeds at the start is paramount though.
Iād get home from a hard day working for the man around 6.30/7pm (donāt start rushing home), stop for a pint if early, never give false hope.
Ms Goode would have the dinner made for me and would feed the little lad around 8pm and go to bed. Me the caring father would stay up and watch over him and the telly, having the occasional Heineken. At 11.30/12 when he woke, Iād call the bean an ti to takeover and Iād go to bed. She would look after him and get back up at 4.30/5. Iād be grand and although her sleep broken sheād be grand too with 7/8 hrs sleep.
With herself feeding, the baby really doesnāt give a monkeys about youā¦donāt worry, play on this, it will change but it means you wonāt have to change nappies much either. I remember telling a work colleague I had changed 6 nappies in the first 6 weeks and they thought this strange???
Then the second comes along.
All the above changesā¦the little things kinda form a bond with you anyway. While one is being fed or played with you really canāt ignore the other oneā¦youāll start bringing them places too, repeatedly and ones offs, horse riding, swimming, funky monkeys, imaginosity, play groundsā¦itās fucking endless. You donāt want to but for some reason you do itā¦
These are like school trips but they happen every weekend. Now in Wexford that might have been normal growing up but in Dublin the front door was opened and we were told to come home for dinner when the Angelus rang in St Sylvesters, which at the time could be heard all over the villageā¦now we lived under some rules, you couldnāt be late for dinner or you ate it cold. Cold stew on Tuesday or cold chips and eggs on a Friday ensured at a young age one learned the values of timeliness.
Anyway, after these excursions, you may say, ah I might go for a pint, depending on the week this could have a positive or negative responseā¦ always finish that sentence with, Iāll only have a few and sure Iāll get up with them in the morningā¦
Then on a Saturday or Sunday youāll end up posting on this site dying of a hangover with kids drinking milk and watching The Boss Baby or Toy Story.
Dinosaurs yesterday at the Ambassador, swimming later this morningā¦ Iāll have a few pints at the Gary Og gig later tonight though.
Monday is my lie on day. Always ensure the work diary has an meeting in it and get in the office for 11. Itās weird at the start but after a while people in the office start saying, oh Mr Goode doesnāt get in til around 11 on Mondayāsā¦then you know youāve cracked it.
Peter Rabbit is on hereā¦
