Day 9

Mom leaves.
Over the last 9+ days Mom had been staying with us and helping us keep everything moving and developing a schedule so we can survive with out having a melt down. We started the morning with her letting me sleep in one last time by sneaking away the baby and starting breakfast. She made some amazing french toast and we watched the news. As Mom went upstairs to collect the rest of her things I got a phone call about a job I applied to about a year ago offering me a position. We were very excited and Mom went on her way back home pleased with how things were left. I, however, started thinking about the prospect of going back to work and completely lost it. The idea of leaving my little baby for longer than and hour kills me! I am sure this will get slightly easier and one day I will need to return to working for obvious financial reasons, but I cried for an hour. After a solid nap and some phone calls later I calmed down. Now the child care research has begun.
     Hormones are still running very high and crying seems to be coming easily but I don't think I would call this the baby blues by any stretch of the imagination. Daddy seems to be doing well and Baby is on a pretty predictable schedule. All and all I think we've got this down pretty well.