Back to Work

D-day (dreaded day), second time around, was harder than expected! I missed the boys and being home much, much more than I had expected and I think the logistics of the daycare drop-off, the nanny, and pumping were a little tricky. Here was today's layout. I'm going to need to streamline some of this:

5:30am: Dae leaves for work. I wake up, nurse Olin, and pray both boys will stay asleep long enough for me to shower and get ready and maybe eat a little breakfast.

6:30am: Success - both boys have stayed asleep! Christian gets up, I pump, and change Christian's clothes and get him ready for daycare, packing his usual 4-5 extra outfits and undies for the pottytraining accidents (this usually takes about 20 minutes). Actually, he has only had about one accident/day at Daycare, which is great. Olin awakes around 6:45am, which is very early for him. I change his diaper.

7:00am: The nanny arrives. I hand off Olin and leave with Christian in tow literally the moment she arrives. (Luckily, she came over last night to get oriented with Olin's schedule and feeding.)

Drive to daycare and drop off Christian.

7:27am: Arrive at work. I am 3 minutes early, which is a far cry from the 15-20 minutes I wanted to be early for my first day back. Luckily for me, my first patient does not show. A perfectly timed no-show! I start checking my 211 e-mails and pile of charts on my desk. I also manage to squeeze into a size Medium scrub bottom, which used to be a little loose. Ugh.

1:15pm: I am a little late leaving for lunch since my patient runs over. I drive home, pump, heat up some soup from Kelly, hug a smiley Olin for about 5-10 minutes (not long enough!) and rush back to work.

5:30pm: Leave work (on time!) through rush hour to pick up Christian from daycare.

6:15pm: Arrive home. All I want to do is nurse and hold Olin after his first long day with the nanny, but Christian is needing dinner asap and it's getting late.

6:30pm: Feed Christian spaghetti, my go-to meal when I have absolutely nothing planned. I actually completely forgot about dinner and was fretting a little at work.

6:45pm: Finally, I get to nurse Olin! Leelee makes a huge spaghetti mess in the background.

7:30pm: Dae arrives home after a long day at work (hooray!). Sadly, 14 hour days like today are his norm! Plus the poor guy didn't even get lunch. He scarfs down spaghetti, entertains Christian and puts him to bed, then holds Olin while I am currently blogging :)

So, it's 8:30pm and I'm not really tired from the day, I just feel like I barely was able to scrape by and feed everyone and keep everyone alive, and the day's over! I assume, as with everything in my life, that I am just slow on the uptake and as soon as I get the hang of it, we'll find a groove. I hope!

p.s. Nanny washed and put away all the dishes, totally cleaned & organized our messy Tupperware drawer, folded our laundry, started organizing Christian's dresser clothes and folded the bins of Olin's clothes. It is so nice, I cannot even explain. :)