Personal Narrative: How My Baby Changed My Life

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On July fourth a blessing came along, a new baby sister. Before our lives were so quick and simple, now it is filled with cries and dirty diapers. Endless nights of barely getting enough sleep or taking care of her when I needed to be doing homework for school. Don't get me wrong we love her dearly, she just changed our lives completely and I wasn't prepared for it.

Last october, my mom kept her pregnancy a secret from my sister Ari and I. When she finally told us, my sister was not too pleased about being the middle child. On the other hand, I was built up with different emotions, I didn't know what emotion was outweighing the other. Of course I helped my mom throughout the months of her pregnancy picking out everything you could possibly …show more content…

To this day, my mom still is sleeping on the couch with Elara in the crib next to her. The reason behind this is because my dad works hard to take care of the family and wakes up at 5 a.m. My sister and I weren't so happy about it because we like to play Xbox late at night together on our mean time as well as watching scary movies. Obviously that stopped real quick when my mom was bothered by us being up around the baby making noise while they try and sleep. The first few nights went by great, we didn't hear a peep from her, not until the next night came around. She was up all night crying and fussing about who knows what, keep in mind I had school the next morning. I decided to help my mom on nights like those because I don't need her stressed out thinking she's alone in this. This caused me to lose a lot of sleep and get to school on time some days because I was too tired to wake up on …show more content…

I have never been so stressed out before with all those until another priority came along, but hers is different and takes much more time out of my day than what I barely have already. I have to plan my day out in advance and think about if I'm not going to do chores on this day because I'm too busy helping my mom. I will do it on a less stressful day where I know I won't get a lot of homework or have practice on that day. But sometimes that always doesn't work out, and I will be up late at night doing homework. If you are wondering, Ari does help out but she's lazy and doesn't have those motherly instincts that I have. I do enjoy helping my mother but it doesn't do me good

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