I'm back to work in 10 days. I have had one heck of a maternity leave. Sort of... 12 weeks (3 months) of it was actual maternity leave, the other 2 months is the summer break I get from work anyways. Somehow Nola came at the perfect time, and allowed me to go straight from maternity leave right into the summer that I get off anyways. It has gone by so fast. I can't believe she's almost 5 months old. That is ridiculously old. I have an old baby. Darned near a toddler. Not really, but she's definitely not the infant I brought home from the hospital. I am going to miss not having to divide my attention between her and work. I am incredibly lucky in that I will not have to put her in daycare. So I am very grateful for that. I will basically be able to keep her with me while I work. I will of course need a baby sitter for a few hours a week, but nothing more than 5, maybe 6 hours depending on what I have going on with work.
The summer has gone by so fast. I feel like it's just got hot a week ago. Perhaps because I just had my A/C installed a week ago. Before that we were using one fan. Believe it or not, it wasn't a big deal. It was warm, but it was barely as long as there was no oven cooking, or running marathons. I'm going to miss my lazy days with Nola. Oh well. I can't complain. I have had 5 wonderful months alone with my baby girl. Getting to know her personality, and enjoying every minute of it.
Here is a pic of my Nola on the 4th of July looking like miss Liberty. The little red star in the middle flashes. That's Daddy in the background holding her. She is such a drooly little baby. Too cute.
The summer has gone by so fast. I feel like it's just got hot a week ago. Perhaps because I just had my A/C installed a week ago. Before that we were using one fan. Believe it or not, it wasn't a big deal. It was warm, but it was barely as long as there was no oven cooking, or running marathons. I'm going to miss my lazy days with Nola. Oh well. I can't complain. I have had 5 wonderful months alone with my baby girl. Getting to know her personality, and enjoying every minute of it.
Here is a pic of my Nola on the 4th of July looking like miss Liberty. The little red star in the middle flashes. That's Daddy in the background holding her. She is such a drooly little baby. Too cute.
Hi Dana!
You probably won't remember me, but we met a couple of times. I came to your site by way of Tiffany's catering site. (I used to work with Tiff at TBMA.) I wanted to say congratulations on the baby!!! And I'm so glad that you put your struggle out there for other want-to-be-parents to read.
I currently have a facebook/blogger friend that is going through what you went through and while I can't share the pain, I can read your words and completely empathize.
Again, congratulations!
Posted by: Jennifer | September 14, 2009 at 04:26 PM