Day 91...thanks Grandpa

Apr 20

Today is Martyn's 3 month birthday!

It was also Eli's first day with the boy, though he didn't have him the entire day. He had to go into work for an hour, for a special certification so his dad came into town to watch the boy.

Before that, I had texted Eli about 8:30 or so to see how things were going. He said Martyn screamed through his first feeding and gave Eli a head ache.

But was a good boy for Grandpa, and they both enjoyed it. That makes my heart happy.

I had more work to do today, and it really felt like I was getting back into my "groove", as one of my vendors put it. I'm really noticing, and kind of reminiscing over how different it feels physically, being at work now than it did the last month of my pregnancy. The shop is much less treacherous for me, I'm able to walk across the lot much more comfortably and quickly, I can easily lift and carry things, light or heavy. I think I like it better. During walk through in the mornings, I don't have to sway so my hips and ankles don't hurt, every time we stop at a car. I don't feel the need to relieve the pressure on my lower back and pelvis....it just much better.

I feel like I can really get down to business at work now. The whole time I've been in this position at my job, up until now, I've been pregnant (or on maternity leave). In fact, I found out I was pregnant when we got back from our trip at the end of May last year....I started working for Kadel's at the beginning of April, so nearly the whole time I've been employed by them I've been pregnant. Weird. They seem to like me quite a bit. I want to do a good job while I'm there, however much longer that is....don't get me wrong, I don't want to work there forever. I don't want to be working there for that much longer, but it could be quite a while still, and I'm ok with that.

I'm thinking about starting to ride the MAX to work on days that Eli is home. It would mean he would have to drive me to the station in the morning, but I could totally walk from where I would get off, to my work in just a few minutes, it's really close by. That way Eli could have the car, and if he needed to go anywhere during the day, wouldn't have to take the boy in his truck. We'll see.

Martyn really wanted mama this evening. As long as he had my attention he was pretty happy, even if i wasn't holding him. As long as I was paying attention to him, he was pretty content. I think he's really processing all this change, because the last couple days he's had a big nap during the day, and then was ready for bed by 8 o'clock. Tonight he fell asleep in my lap and I went to lay him down in the bed and he was out. He didn't even wake up a little bit. That's good I guess, but I know it's hard for him. He's doing great though. It's hard for me too. Having three months off, it's really hard to get back into the habit of getting up every morning at 5, and getting out the door on time to get to work on time, and working all day. I'm glad my job isn't extremely physically demanding...I'd be in a bad way if it were.

Well, my eyelids are getting heavy so I'm done.