Pressing on...

I am just finishing up my second week of work. Every morning is a new challenge. Amelia and I are working on getting a routine down. We have pretty much got the bedtime routine, but those nighttime feedings are killing me! If Baby A could only understand how much easier it would be on both of us for her to wake up at the same times every night. She gets a bath every night around 9:00 and is usually in bed between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm. That's wonderful because that means I can go to bed too :) Then she wakes up to nurse anywhere between midnight and 3:00 am. That's quite a difference. What time she wakes up for her first feeding determines how late she'll let me sleep in the morning. Ideally, I get up at 5:30, get ready for work, eat my breakfast and then feed her at 6:30 and we're out the door by 7:30. If she wakes up at 3, this works out. If she wakes up earlier, then I'm up at 4:00 or 4:30 with no chance of going back to bed. That makes for a long day. Do any of my more experienced mom friends have any advice for consistency?

Almost over....

On Tuesday, my little Amelia will be 8 weeks old. I can't believe it has gone by so fast. This is my last day of maternity leave and I am really sad about it. I feel like I am just getting the hang of this and now we're going to change it up again. Amelia still seems too little to be away from me all day long. I know that her babysitter will be wonderful with her because I have had this conversation many times:

"Oh, you have to go back to work? Who is going to keep your baby?"
"Stephanie Goodman."
"She'll be fine. Stephanie is the best."

Those conversations make me feel better about the whole thing, but I am still sad that I cannot be the one who Amelia spends her days with.

To top all of this off, Zach is starting a new job on the 17th. It's a great opportunity and we are really excited about it, but it will require a LOT of traveling. Overnight traveling.... which means, Amelia and I will be on our own for weeks at a time. I know that we will miss him soo much while he is away, but this new job will open a lot of doors for our little family.

I know you've probably already seen them of Facebook, but here are a few shots of our first Christmas as a family: