This is a very round-about guess….but I figured that it will be somewhere around 1,149 more days I have to work before she goes to Kindergarten. Why Kindergarten? I guess because I never went to Preschool…I don’t even know if they had preschools where I grew up then…but I remember that I was very excited to go to Kindergarten, and I certainly didn’t miss my mom when I went.
So I (we) survived the first week of me being back to work full time. The first couple of days were hard but as always with something new it was mixed with excitement and suspense. Thursday morning I cried.
Wed. and Thurs. are by far the hardest because I take Fiona to greg’s parents house. My limited time at home with her in the morning is filled with grabbing bags and strapping her in her car seat and driving..that adds up to a whole 15 or 20 minutes more that I don’t get to kiss her squooshy little cheeks before I leave. Then there’s the leaving her there and waving good bye. When she’s at home I just give her a little kiss in the middle of play and slip out the door…no big production.
Fiona did really well all week. Monday she put up a fuss for my mom but the rest of the week she was fine. And she seemed fine when I got home from work too. Sleep did not go well all week and I’m sure it was a combination of a lot of things….the new schedule included…and maybe she was wanting to spend more time with me and waking up and staying up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night was her way of getting that. Otherwise it all went pretty well.
I was anxious to see how she would do Fri. through Sun. having me back…and so far it was as smooth as silk. She slipped right back into our routine as if I hadn’t even been gone.
I will say this….yesterday and today I’ve had so much more energy with her then I think I normally do. I am just so excited to get to be with her all day that normally I would be counting the minutes till bed time so that I could get a break but now the day flies by so fast and I can’t believe it’s already over. It is HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD HARD to stay home with a baby day after day.
I am still not sold on full-time…but I will say it went better then I thought.
As for a baby update =) Fiona is moving around like crazy. She does this thing where she get’s up on her feet in down-dog position and then she kind of walks her feet around…she’s close to sitting up her own and she loves to have us hold her hands and walk around. At this rate we may never reach a true full-on crawl…she may just decide that walking is so much better!
