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It’s Time to Level Up
Pull-ups
Last night, our youngest slept without a pull-up on for the first time. We’ve been contemplating when would be the right time for her to level up, and then we ran out of pull-ups, so now is the right time. Of course, we couldn’t run to the store, and we prefer that someone who needs them, has them. Reportedly, moms are hoarding baby supplies, and as a mother of twins who was traumatized by running out of supplies, I get it.
She cried and cried and cried at the thought of it. But I can’t, Mama, what if I have an accident? That’s ok. You might. But Daddy and I are here to help. We’ll tuck you now, then he’ll wake up to go potty when he goes to bed late, and then Mama will wake you up to go potty when I get up early, and maybe you won’t have an accident.
Spoiler alert: She did not have an accident. She was ready, but she didn’t know it, because the idea of doing it was scarier than actually doing it.
And that’s often the case. We get so scared of how something will turn out, wondering if we have what it takes to achieve it, or of facing uncertainty. Just doing it is often less scary than endlessly anticipating it, but right now, it’s the uncertainty and the open-ended timeline that’s getting to us.
