Week Six

Today as been a microcosm of how the past six weeks have been - in the past 12 hours it's been up & down, tiring & energizing, confusing & educational, relaxing & stressful. He was a hungry & fussy boy this morning from about 3am until 9am then adorable & perfect the rest of the afternoon & completely skipped his witching hour - did I mention he rolled?! We had our "mom's group today" and at the end, after a diaper change I decided to try a little tummy time (for maybe the 4th time ever...) and he was great - totally showing off looking around the circle at the other moms and babies while everyone laughed & commented how good he was then he decided to roll to his left side which astounded everyone at which point I mentioned how I've heard of babies who look like they want to roll really early then at the normal marker of 6-7 MONTHS still aren't so he decided to show me that I had no idea what I was talking about and he was not a part of the aforementioned group by rolling right onto his back. Everyone asked was that a first and it of course proudly was. Despite the freezing walk back I had another one of those mom highs. After getting home I ended up talking with my Dad & sister about the impending conversation with my boss that was scheduled for tomorrow. I have a good idea of what I do and don't want but sadly it does not fit within the come back full-time at 8 weeks after no paid maternity leave. I'm anxious to have the conversation as it's probably been contending for the #2 position in my mind for too long now. My sister-in-law sent me a tear-jerk article this morning

http://yourbestnestindy.com/2014/02/27/mommy-somebody-needs-you/ which obviously made me question my choice a little. Feeling very lucky to have such a wonderful (literally - he's such a good baby!) son who's healthy and playful and fortunately pretty sleepy!