A glimpse - Day 2

This morning I woke up just before 6am to my usual “alarm” clock (aka the baby squealing and cooing in her crib).  I pulled her in to bed with us and breastfed her.

 

Around 6:20am she was finished and ready to play.  Jon got up and got in the shower while Peanut and I played in bed while I pumped.  Around 6:45am I finished pumping and Jon was finished getting ready, so I handed off the baby and got in the shower.

 

This morning I was on drop-off duty (we take turns dropping off and picking up), so once I was dressed and ready to go,

 

 

Jon handed the baby back to me, made us lunches, kissed us both goodbye, and headed out.  Peanut and I played for a bit,

 

 

packed up her daycare bag,

 

 

and headed out.

 

I dropped her off at daycare at 7:45am, grabbed myself a coffee at Starbucks, and headed for the office (today was promising to be a long day).

 

I had my coffee with two breakfast bars that really didn’t taste good, but I was starving by this time.

 

My day is so freakin’ busy, I won’t bore with too many details.  There was a lot of this:

 

 

and some of this:

 

 

At 10:30 am I went downstairs and pumped.  Usually I use that time to read some e-mails I haven’t had time to read, check up on facebook and Twitter, and catch up on some reading.

 

Right now I’m at the tail end of this awesome book:

 

 

At noon, I grabbed my lunch and ate it at my desk while continuing to work.

 

 

That’s a pepper turkey and cheese sandwich on a wheat thin with a side of goldfish.

 

I usually also eat a bunch of snacks throughout the day.  Today I had an apple, 2 Hershey kisses, two mini-Twix, 3 apricots, a cup of tea, another cup of coffee and a couple of bottles of water.

 

At 2:30 pm I had to pump again.  I’m almost finished with the book (it only took a couple of months in 5 minute increments).

 

Oh and there were some tweets.

 

 

That’s my conversation with Kari.  Who sits about 10 feet away from me but somehow I manage to only talk to her on Twitter during my pump “breaks.”

 

Everyone, say hi to Kari.

 

 

Around 3:30pm a co-worker that was in an airplane crash came by.  I spent some time chatting with him and everyone else, set him up on our video conference so everyone in the other offices could see him, and then headed to a meeting, late.  Which meant that I stayed at work late.  Jon picked up P at the regular time (around 5:15pm) while I hung back.

 

At 5:40pm I was finally ready to go home and made it there by about 5:55pm (yeah, I know, I have a tough commute).

 

I swooped in and grabbed my little Peanut, hugged and kissed her until she started squirming, then got her dinner ready.

 

 

She had some homemade yellow squash and zucchini around 6:15pm, then got in the bath.  Usually Jon does the bath while I clean up, but since he was on the phone with some pretty-important-but-way-too-personal-to-discuss-on-a blog call, I did the bath tonight. 

 

 

I don’t think she minded much.

 

 

By 6:45 pm we were all done and spent some time playing in Peanut’s room.

 

 

 

 

 

Around 7:10 pm Jon got off the phone and went to play with P while I started dinner.  By 7:20 she was ready for bed so I breastfed her while Jon finished dinner.  By 7:45pm she was sound asleep and Jon and I sat down to have dinner (at an actual dining room table. Weird, I know).

 

 

(Whole wheat pasta with tomatos, turkey, basil and red pepper flakes).

 

We both cleaned up after dinner and then assumed the position.

 

 

On the couch that is: I’m blogging (duh) while Jon is watching Pawn Stars.  At 9pm I’ll pump, make Peanut’s bottles and breakfast for the following day, and by 10 we’ll both head to bed.