Christmas 2009

I think this is the longest I've gone without posting since starting this blog! That will happen when you go home to WI with an infant, 2 dogs, and a husband for 9 days. It was a great 9 days with a few "Morgan bumps" here and there but we made it safely to and from WI. A shout out MUST go to whoever invented luggage racks and giant waterproof duffle bags to store luggage in on top of the vehicle or we never would have made it. Oh, and thank God for breast pumps too, or our trips would have been at least 1-1.5 hours longer than they were.

We left Saturday the 19th and made it to my dad's house in WI at a decent hour. I had not heard/read of snow so when we hit Fon du Lac and ran into some, I was a little worried but for no real reason. After that, it was a whirlwind of visiting family, keeping Morgan calm in chaos (MUCH easier said than done), and enjoying being home. Morgan had a few hours here and there where she was really fussy and at times inconsolable, but usually it was due to loudness levels and lack of a decent nap for days on end. We finally got into a routine of sorts where she could get some sleep and she fared much better.

We have so many things to be thankful for this year. We were blessed with many wonderful presents and had a great time watching everyone open gifts from us (even though they might not have been my most creative as usual as it was a bit trickier Christmas shopping this year...). We are blessed to have our daughter, who is the most beautiful thing we've ever seen even when she's fussy beyond our wildest imaginations (like tonight, for example). We're healthy, we have good jobs that really aren't in jeapordy (or that we should be worried about), our families are doing well...the list could go on forever.

Now that we're home, we're working on unpacking and getting back into the routine of things...before I go back to work. I am 90% sure I start back on January 4th but time slipped by and it might actually be January 11th. I need to get in touch with my HR rep to make sure that when they said I'd be due back January 11th that they left me at least 5 vacations days for a wedding and cushion in case I/Morgan gets sick or when she has doctor visits. It really started to sink in on the ride home yesterday that I have to leave her next Monday (I'm preparing for the 4th so I'm not completely crushed when that's right). I have a feeling I might be a bit on the sad side the further this week gets and I can't believe Monday's over already. At this point next week I will likely have a full day of work in. What's going to happen when the sitter doesn't know what makes her smile? What's going to happen if Morgan won't sleep and the sitter is busy and can't get to her when she cries...? It might kill me just a bit thinking about her being with someone else for almost 9 hours a day...I hate it. And on that note I'm going to bed. I'll wallow in self pity some more later.