No one can prepare you for being a parent. Before the first baby arrives, whether calming or overwhelming, you find yourself inundated with information, advice, opinions. So much so that one of the most popular pieces of advice one now receives is to not listen to too much advice. Funny right…
This morning I decided to try out a new routine. The plan was to get up nice and early, around 5:30 or 6 o’clock, a good hour and a half before Maya, my one-year-old daughter, wakes up. Of course I hadn’t taken into account our super squeaky stairs. The squeak-factor is not something new, but rather a fact of life we have been dealing with since she was born…