{Friday Night Leftovers}

• My mom is coming to visit April 4th... I'm counting down the days like a 12 year old going to Disneyland. I miss her so much. I always miss her as I don't get to see her very often, but since I've had H, I find myself missing her more than usual. She hasn't seen H since September (aside from Skype, of course)!!! 
• I LOVE Kinder Mini Eggs - seriously the best chocolate egg you will ever eat. Buy a bag (Walmart) I dare you. 
• Dear Tax Return, thank you for paying off my new tires and my credit card, buying me new pants, and also taking a huge chunk of my LOC. Do come again next year. Love D. 
• We have been washing H's clothes with our laundry detergent for a few months now and her cheeks an arms have been super dry. I bought baby detergent again to see if that's what is making the difference. As I poured it into the washer my ovaries started to spit out eggs, pretty sure. It was like a flashback of a newborn. Oh how I love that smell. 
• Speaking of laundry - I've done about 30 loads today.
• 2nd week of work, over. 4 more weeks of fulltime training and then perhaps I can have more than 20 minutes a day with my babygirl. I miss her :(

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{Wordless Wednesday}

{Sleepless Nights}

Since I've gone back to work H has stopped sleeping. I don't know if it's coincidence or if it is some sort of separation thing - either way it's both exhausting and heartbreaking. She went from sleeping 12-14 hour nights to sleeping MAYBE a broken 6 hours and not even napping. She's so tired it's ridiculous. 10-15 wakes in a night has been the norm, and she's ended up sleeping in our bed, wrapped around my next neck and holding my hand, for 2 of the past 5 nights. We've decided to try a night light in hopes that maybe that will help.. I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, please cross your fingers for a good nights sleep!

{Friday Night Leftovers}

• It's FRIDAY!!! I have successfully (by 6pm) completed my first week of work. Longest. Week. Ever. 
• Speaking of work, it's going well. And by well, I mean it's going as good as it can for being away from my baby all day, every day. There is a tonne to learn and my head is spinning, but I think I'm really going to like it!! 
• I need a 36" inseam and so I have a really hard time finding dress pants but recently I was informed that if you order off the Ricki's website you can get 36" inseam! I ordered a pair of pants on Sunday and yesterday I got an email that said all pants were 40% off... $#&%!!!!!
• I ordered a second pair, obviously.
• My besties come this weekend from the city. Unfortunately their grandmother passed away so the nature of the visit isn't the best, however we are having birthday celebrations on Saturday night and we will have a blast regardless. I haven't seen them for a couple months (when I had a baby free weekend in Van *gasp* in January) and they haven't seen H since September! I'm SO excited and I can't wait for them to see how much she's changed. 
• Want some random H facts?
• Eyes, ears, knees, toes, belly, button (belly button), boobies, head, hair, and mouth - theses are all the body parts she currently knows, recognizes, and attempts to say - some sounding better then others. 
• She also knows the sounds that a kitty, puppy, duck, cow, and horse say! 
• She's obsessed with hand cream and chap stick.
• She has a mullet. We're tossing around the idea of cutting it but we go back and forth. It's just so precious.. and funny! 
• I painted her toes! She loves them and says "oooohhh niiice toooesss".
• She doesn't do her stink face anymore (thank god!) but now she does the "who-face" (from who-ville!).. I'll have get a picture of it, it's pretty cute. 

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{Thankful on Thursday}

So I'm working full time right now... it sucks. I'm exhausted.. I feel like from the second I wake up until the second I lay down at night it's go, go, go. A wirlwind of lunches, shopping, laundry, cooking, dishes, pickups, dropoffs, baths and bedtimes. It's lacking time. Time to spend with my baby, and my husby.

I hate that I have to be away from H all day. I hate that someone else is feeding her breakfast and lunch. I hate that she gives someone else hugs before and after her nap and asks someone else "is it?". I loved being a "stay at home mom" and I hate this new routine.

So what am I thankful for?

I'm thankful that I got to be a "stay at home mom" almost an entire 16 months. That's more time than most women get to stay home with their babies.

I'm thankful for my mother in law - she is that someone that gets to spend the day with my babygirl. She is the someone who answers her questions and keeps her safe.

I'm also thankful that I have a job. Even though I'm bitching, complaining and kicking my feet the whole way there in the morning, I'm lucky to be employed (and also, the job isn't so bad either ;) )

{From The Mouth of Babes}

Me: "Hadley, what does a duck say?"

H: "Cock, cock, cock"

... oh good god.

{Reeeewiind}

December 30th, 2011.. That was my last post. Awful, right? I had starting writing out a "New Years Resolutions" post and I was stressing about finding the time, the energy, and the desire. I sat back and thought that perhaps the new year should start of with a blog break. I needed to find the ability to enjoy it again. I've never been a consistent blogger, though I go through phases of good and bad, but somehow I began to find that I was always worrying about what I was going to write about and if people even read it. It felt more like a job than anything, so I quit - for awhile.

I guess in a way it is a job. This is my "baby book" for H. I have a box of momentums as well but I don't have a written out book like many other people do. For this reason, and this reason alone, I feel guilty for taking this break. I especially feel guilty because in the past 3.5 months H has changed from a baby into a little girl. She is blowing our minds on an hourly basis.

I'm hoping that this go around I can fall into some sort of blogging routine. I know the next few months are going to be a bit crazy as we have lots coming up including renovations, a move, and a brand new, full-time job(!), but I am going to give it my best.

Hope you all missed me ;)