Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Welcome to organizing life stages and unexpected events.

And in the last episode, I talked to you all about how

we finally got those two little blessings through adoption and how my transition from being a work-at-home mom

with no children or working-home woman with no children to a mother of two really changed my life and how there was a big adjustment period and that affected my organization and really everything and that's to be expected that everyone goes through that adjustment when they become a mother. And sometimes it happens more when you

have your first, sometimes more with your second, but somewhere along the line, you don't have

it all together and then you get it all back together again. And you kind of find your own groove.

So the unexpected event that happened for us when our kids were little

and still continues today would be all of the various medical needs that our children have.

So when we adopted our very first little baby boy, he was born prematurely and we got him

when he was five days old and he was so

stinging cute and so stinging tiny I mean he was the tiniest little thing like even

even when he was hungry he had like this little bird noise you know how it is when your kids are little

and we just watched every sittendale thing that this child did for like two days and

then we were so exhausted we didn't know what to do because not only did he not eat a lot he also cried a lot and he was very

colloquy and so my husband would take the baby from like 8 o'clock until midnight, maybe one, I don't know, the man's a saint, and I would go to bed at 8 o'clock at night and then I would get up at 2 and feed Joey at 2 and 4 and 6 and 8 and ten and he ate every two hours but he didn't eat very much like we only made like two or four ounces in that little bottle and he would only eat like one or two ounces and then he would cry and then he would spit up

constantly like we went through 24 burp claws a day and 12 bottles and we were

constantly washing and drying bottles and washing and drying clothing and so the doctor said and up on a formula called Alumetin, which we dubbed liquid gold because it was like $25 a day for this

formula that was crazy.

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