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Welcome to Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My name is Derek Olsen, I just spent $285 changing my flight from Wednesday to Thursday at the last minute because I’m an idiot and booked it for the wrong day, and I believe that if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living. In today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I share a little bit about being a dad.
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What I Learned Yesterday:
Today was stressful.
I work from home while my wife goes to her regular 9-5 job.
We have a five month old baby girl who is just adorable. I’m so in love with her.
I watch her 3 days a week we drop her off at a friends house 2 days a week. Then my wife has her on the weekends.
Our daughter is a really good baby. She’s sweet, she’s happy, and she’s usually really easy to look after all day.
Today she cried, a lot. It stressed me out. It was one of those parenting days were you just wanted it to end. Every time I tried to put her down for a nap she cried like crazy. And when she did fall asleep it was only for 30 minutes, then she would cry because she didn’t sleep well.
Well, most of you parents know exactly what I’m talking about.
By the time 5:30 finally came around I was done. My wife Carrie got home and I handed her our daughter and told her I was done for the night. I crawled in bed, turn off the lights, and watched a movie.
A couple hours later Carrie brought our daughter into our room to put her to bed. She was in her pink sleep sack and just looked cuter than anything I’ve ever seen. She was smiling big and making her cute noises. I held her and she smiled and giggled.
Here she was, the same little girl who cried all day acting like it never happened. And here I was, a grown man acting like the worst thing that could happen happened that day.
She grabbed for my beard like she always does, gave more smiles, and just like that, all the stress of the day was gone.
This is our first child. We are both absolutely in love with her. We are those parents who think their child is the best thing that has ever happened and I like it that way.
Being new parents has been amazing. It’s changed me in so many ways. I still can’t believe any of this is even happening.
So here’s what I learned:
I get stressed out too easily. When things don’t go how I want them to I get frustrated and it takes too long for me to recover.
I need to take a lesson from my daughter and learn how to forget it ever happened. Even a stressful day shouldn’t affect me for more than an hour. Maybe I need a shorter memory so that I can forget about stress and move on more quickly.
I’m Derek Olsen and this has been stuff I learned yesterday.
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