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makes me want to crawl under my desk. guess i'll have to be nicer and therefore, sadder. tricky balance.
mary catherine has conjunctivitis in both eyes. bless the poor mankey eyed child. the nursery won't let her back there until she's had antibiotic drops in her eyes for at least 12 hours. nevermind the entire DAY she had it yesterday - but policy is policy. so now we're experiencing our first emergency childcare covering day. our solution was to each take a half day, so we're switching off at 1230.
i certainly don't mind and neither does andrew.. so it's going to work well. what i do mind about is the GUILT i'm feeling for having to take off work. i mean, i know it's not a big deal - but i feel badly having to do it. part of me really wants to take MC into the office until it's swap time. but thanks to mayor ken and his congestion charge, it'd cost me £5 to get to my building. stupid. oh well.
so MC is swinging and talking to herself and i'm updating my mac.. not a bad morning. ;-)
i feel miserable. i threw up in my sleep last night. yes - you read that correctly. how disgusting is that?! i have no idea what's up with my tum.. i just know i'd rather be at home asleep than here at my desk. ever the faithful employee, yep.. that's me.
mary catherine has discovered how to blow raspberries (or make fart sounds if you're less couth!) it's so funny. we blow one at her and you can tell that she's thinking VERY hard about how to do one back to us. it's so cute. i'm so lucky to have the most perfect child in the whole wide world. so smart, cute and funny. (all that praise just for a raspberry or twelve!)
gah - i feel like poop. crap. you name it. help me.
why my oh my apple pie - i've shot up to number 120 on the clix diary ranking thing. popularity is addictive.
i'm so tired today.. went out last night with four other mums & babies - a nice time was had by all. but i sort of think it wasn't really fair of me to blow mary catherine's schedule out of the water like that. i felt so mumsy out with all the other pairs. good golly molly - i might be a candidate for soccer mom of the year!
okay - whew - problem sorted. hey - i just noticed that i am the big 222 on clix diary rating thingy. do me a favour - clicky the 'spread the word' button on the left, will ya? mommy wants to be famous.
anyway - wednesday of back to work week four. my how time has flown by. this weekend was nice - up in lucker nowhereville northumberland. but hey - there was miniature golf, there was cream tea and the ocean.. and of course family... mustn't forget the family. it was nice to see everyone - mary catherine was quite charming, although crying a bit because of what i can only assume is teething. poor thing.
on the bright side of drool and all things baby - MC blew her first raspberries last night. she did it with a mouthful of broccoli and it made me laugh and laugh. oh - how am i supposed to get her interested in various vegetables when they taste like poo poo? mushy watered down broccoli = not nice!!
off to score some lunch.
hmm.... my html seems to be fighting with itself. ..
ahh... the end of week three. fortunately, it's the easter bank holiday weekend - which means we all get friday and monday off. thank gosh. we're going up to lucker, where andrew's parents' new house is. I've attached a map here somewhere. i'm looking forward to getting away from the city. i have these great visions of being in the fresh air and sunshine with mary catherine and andrew ... i only hope the weather cooperates. ;-)
oooh glory be, glory be! my tag board is working now... you can now post comments/thoughts/the weather on the left hand side. please use it. make me feel my geek-ness in installing it was not in vain!
okay - so day two back to work week two.. i can't believe how i haven't posted! you'd think i'd been busy or something. anyway - things are going very well - alarmingly well, if that's possible. coming back to marketpipe was super easy and i've rather enjoyed being back at work. now don't take that statement the wrong way - i'd much rather be in constant contact with mary catherine during the day - but since i have to be here, at least it's grand that i'm enjoying it.
i am sure there will be days where i'm blue as anything - but so far, so good. and i'm extremely thankful for that. another reason it's been so easy to make the transition is the HUGE amount of support i've gotten from so many people. the women in our mum & baby group have been stellar, calling and emailing and making sure that i was okay. my parents and andrew's parents have been very sensitive and kind and even my boss, jonathan, has been very easygoing and nice. andrew, however, has been the king of husbands in my book since i've come back. not normally known for his organizational skills, he's been really helping out around the house and has been invaluable in the mornings. without him, my pump wouldn't be clean and mary catherine wouldn't have any bottles! i am so proud of him for stepping up to the plate when needed. not that he'd been crap while i was on maternity leave, but i didn't ask him to help out that much - since he was the one earning a living for us. whatever i did to deserve him - well, i'm glad i did it.
okay - enough gushing for now, there is lunch to eat. ;-)
well today is day three back at work.. i'm sorry that i haven't posted before now - but i fell back into work very easily and quickly. it's just as i thought - the anticipation of being back was way worse than the real thing. i am so thankful for my new friend adrienne who's been a real mentor in the coming back process. she's helped me out so much with pumping ideas. love her. love her. love her.
i must run for now - promise to update more in a bit.
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