July 15 I left work half way through the day to go see my OB because I was having contractions every couple of minutes. Little did I know I would not return for 5 months. I was put on short term disability for the remainder of the pregnancy (3 months) and then went on maternity leave for the last 2 months.
Monday I return to work and I’m sure it will be a bitter sweet day. It will be nice to get back to a regular schedule and have adult interaction throughout the day, and of course get back to doing what I love. But at the same time, I will miss seeing my sweet boys faces anytime I want and hearing all their little noises.
It’s been great to be able to be home with them for 8 weeks and learn all their little quirks, personalities and what not. I’m not totally ready to go back to work, but at the same time I am ready. If I wasn’t off work for 3 months before I had the boys, I’m sure I wouldn’t be ready to go back to work at all! We’ll see how I do at remembering how to do my job. I’m sure it will take a week or so to get back into the swing of things….especially being sleep deprived and my brain not being 100% back to where it was!
Jonathan took vacation all next week and then he has the following week off as he does every year. So the boys will have one of us with them every day until they are 10 weeks, then the grandma’s take over child care while we are both at work. I’m sure they are looking forward to it!!
I’m going to have to make sure Jonathan sends me some pictures and updates of the boys so I can still feel like I get to see them and I’ll have to have the grandmas do the same.
To all my co workers – ready or not, here I come….I’m baaaack!
