Work.
It's looming on the horizon.
And I'm trying to get prepared...hence the numerous blog posts and facebook uploads this weekend.
I think I'm in denial.
Everything is in order: my suits and dress pants are back in the closet, new outfits are lined up and ironed for the week, nails and toenails are painted for the first time this winter, Emmie photos for my office are tucked in my purse, and my purse essentials have been moved out of the diaper bag and back to the purse.
I'm ready. Now I'm just waiting. You know how when you're kinda dreading something the day just moves like molasses? Ugh. I'm at the point where I just want it to get here already...it's going to happen so let's just get on with it already.
I think I'll be alright. Besides the whole missing my child like I'm missing right arm thing, the saddest part is that there is NOTHING to look forward to from here on out. No three month hiatus from stress and work responsibility. Just weekends and an occassional vacation and retirement. Yes, there are fun things to look forward to: coming home to the wee one, The Bachelor Finale, lunch dates with friends, perhaps a 30th birthday party this weekend...but nothing HUGE like three months off!
Can you get post-maternity leave depression?
The good thing is that it's about to be spring, I literally hibernated through the entire winter and I'm coming out of hiding to above 30s weather.
And my goal for the morning is to hit Starbucks for the first time in months on the way to work....while listening to a new CD I burned, yes I burn CDs, I'm vintage like that. And number one on the list...Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. If that doesn't get you ready to face the day, nothing will!
Okay, enough rambling...I'm going to have to Nyquil myself to sleep tonight.
3.13.2011
Stimulate your senses.
According to one of the many virtual doctors I read, it's time to nuture baby's sense of touch. They recommended letting baby touch fake fur to stimulate her senses...um who needs fake fur when we've got the real deal?!
Riding the dog like a horse is not frowned upon in this establishment, it's encouraged.
My what big ears you have!
Friends forever.
Sorry Tuck, get used to it, sucker.
3.12.2011
3.10.2011
better at home
You know how some things are just okay to do when you're at home...like wiping baby drool with your sleeve or smelling baby butts like it's no big thing or opening things with your teeth?
Then you go out in public and have to modify your behaviors to pretend like you don't act like a caveman?
It was a family trip to the mall today. We hit the Gap and apparently Emmie was not interested in the fine apparel surrounding her...I get it, probably not enough color to stimulate the infant mind, but mom likes her neutrals to range from white to offwhite to beige and Gap satisfies the need. Anyways...she started to fuss. So I pulled her out...remembered we were in public and had Andy do a discreet butt sniff behind the racks.
Excellent, we can parent like adults outside the confines of our house!
Fast forward to me at the eye clinic. Contacts out, chatting with the doctor, I'm still blind, yadda yadda. Doctor leaves, I go to put my contacts in...grab the saline that is just like mine at home and OPEN IT WITH MY TEETH. As the bottle left my mouth I realized what I had just done and did a mini gag. Good gawd...did I seriously just put a community saline bottle top in my mouth...yep, sure did. Thankfully there was no one in the room when I cavemanned the bottle top, but I still...eww!!
Stay classy San Diego.
Then you go out in public and have to modify your behaviors to pretend like you don't act like a caveman?
It was a family trip to the mall today. We hit the Gap and apparently Emmie was not interested in the fine apparel surrounding her...I get it, probably not enough color to stimulate the infant mind, but mom likes her neutrals to range from white to offwhite to beige and Gap satisfies the need. Anyways...she started to fuss. So I pulled her out...remembered we were in public and had Andy do a discreet butt sniff behind the racks.
Excellent, we can parent like adults outside the confines of our house!
Fast forward to me at the eye clinic. Contacts out, chatting with the doctor, I'm still blind, yadda yadda. Doctor leaves, I go to put my contacts in...grab the saline that is just like mine at home and OPEN IT WITH MY TEETH. As the bottle left my mouth I realized what I had just done and did a mini gag. Good gawd...did I seriously just put a community saline bottle top in my mouth...yep, sure did. Thankfully there was no one in the room when I cavemanned the bottle top, but I still...eww!!
Stay classy San Diego.
3.08.2011
day one, done.
Well I survived my first quasi day back in the working world.
It's technically not really work at all when I sit through meetings with myfriends peers gossipping about the past three months discussing new banking regulations.
Notsomuch perks of the day:
Leaving Emmie knowing that when I got home for the day she would probably be so big I wouldn't recognize her.
Having to be somewhere at a specific time.
Pumping...in the parking lot...
Having a terrible headache either from too much social interaction or having to wear my contacts for more than an hour.
Realizing I'm so that new mom that could hardly wait three seconds before pulling out photos of Emmie.
Knowing in a few days I will have to do this EVERY day.
Perks of the day:
Finally stepping on the scale I've avoided for so long only to realize I hit prepreggo weight!
Actually pulling myself together with makeup and hair and accessories and an outfit that needed to be ironed.
Socializing with people my age.
Hearing how cute Emmie is when showing off her photos.
Having lunch and snacks made for me and cans of coke on ice just feet away.
Coming home to baby and dad so happy after a great day together...of course she would pull off a three hour afternoon nap for him, why wouldn't she?!
It's technically not really work at all when I sit through meetings with my
Notsomuch perks of the day:
Leaving Emmie knowing that when I got home for the day she would probably be so big I wouldn't recognize her.
Having to be somewhere at a specific time.
Pumping...in the parking lot...
Having a terrible headache either from too much social interaction or having to wear my contacts for more than an hour.
Realizing I'm so that new mom that could hardly wait three seconds before pulling out photos of Emmie.
Knowing in a few days I will have to do this EVERY day.
Perks of the day:
Finally stepping on the scale I've avoided for so long only to realize I hit prepreggo weight!
Actually pulling myself together with makeup and hair and accessories and an outfit that needed to be ironed.
Socializing with people my age.
Hearing how cute Emmie is when showing off her photos.
Having lunch and snacks made for me and cans of coke on ice just feet away.
Coming home to baby and dad so happy after a great day together...of course she would pull off a three hour afternoon nap for him, why wouldn't she?!
3.06.2011
needy.
Tuck has been pretty cool about the whole baby stealing his thunder thing, but he gets a little needy from time to time. Like he needs to eat her pacifier, he needs to lick her head, he needs to stuff as many of her socks as he can fit in his mouth kind of thing. And sometimes he just needs attention. I told Tucker go sit down and this is where he ended up.
We watched Baby Einstein for the first time today and Tucker was just as enthralled as Emmie. Sometimes I wish I had the camera strapped to me at all times because the image of both of them staring at the tv without blinking for minutes on end would be pretty priceless.
We watched Baby Einstein for the first time today and Tucker was just as enthralled as Emmie. Sometimes I wish I had the camera strapped to me at all times because the image of both of them staring at the tv without blinking for minutes on end would be pretty priceless.
3.05.2011
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