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The grindstone restarts
2021-Jun-10, Thursday 16:13
Today is my first day back to work! For the first time in a month, I went to bed early, set an alarm, got ready to get up...and then slept through my alarm and barely made it to work on time. 
My habit of waking up at the absolute last minute to get to work has not changed not that it takes me two minutes to do so! I spent the morning answering emails and dealing with the administrator of my leave screwing up when I was gone, so they reported to my boss and HR on Monday that I was supposed to return that day but they weren't sure that I had. When I called them again, they had a record that I had called them on May 18th to update the starting day of my leave, but apparently hadn't edited the actual day somehow? Ugh.
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sashagee got her COVID vaccination today! She had wanted to wait until she was done breastfeeding, since there wasn't a lot of research on the vaccine's effects on infants, but it's been a while since she had that initial thought and now there's much more data attesting to its safety, so as soon as the two-week period after her rubella vaccine expired she started looking for a vaccine appointment. Fortunately nowadays they're much easier to get than they were when I got my first shot back in February, so she walked in, they gave her the shot while I watched and then they let us walk around the Walgreens for fifteen minutes while she made sure she didn't have an adverse reaction to the shot. She hasn't yet, and other than a bit of arm soreness doesn't seem to have any reaction at all really. Hopefully that doesn't mean that her second shot will knock her on her back.
( Food and nostalgia )
Today was a bit rough because Laila was fussy for most of the day andsashagee had a hard time with it. We track everything we can about her, so we know that today she slept about an hour less than she usually does and spent most of that time crying. Even a healthy baby with no troubles can cry up to three hours in a day, but it's different when it's your baby doing the crying. We'll have to become inured to it, especially when we're teaching her to sleep by herself or potty training her or, really, showing her how to deal with any discomfort that lasts beyond a moment, which is a vital adult skill! But learning how to do it is unpleasant and that means she'll cry. She's asleep now, fortunately, and hopefully she'll stay that way for at least a few more hours.
I haven't been the best at reading other people's posts, but I'm trying to get back on track! I hope everyone has been doing well.
My habit of waking up at the absolute last minute to get to work has not changed not that it takes me two minutes to do so! I spent the morning answering emails and dealing with the administrator of my leave screwing up when I was gone, so they reported to my boss and HR on Monday that I was supposed to return that day but they weren't sure that I had. When I called them again, they had a record that I had called them on May 18th to update the starting day of my leave, but apparently hadn't edited the actual day somehow? Ugh.sashagee got her COVID vaccination today! She had wanted to wait until she was done breastfeeding, since there wasn't a lot of research on the vaccine's effects on infants, but it's been a while since she had that initial thought and now there's much more data attesting to its safety, so as soon as the two-week period after her rubella vaccine expired she started looking for a vaccine appointment. Fortunately nowadays they're much easier to get than they were when I got my first shot back in February, so she walked in, they gave her the shot while I watched and then they let us walk around the Walgreens for fifteen minutes while she made sure she didn't have an adverse reaction to the shot. She hasn't yet, and other than a bit of arm soreness doesn't seem to have any reaction at all really. Hopefully that doesn't mean that her second shot will knock her on her back.( Food and nostalgia )
Today was a bit rough because Laila was fussy for most of the day and
sashagee had a hard time with it. We track everything we can about her, so we know that today she slept about an hour less than she usually does and spent most of that time crying. Even a healthy baby with no troubles can cry up to three hours in a day, but it's different when it's your baby doing the crying. We'll have to become inured to it, especially when we're teaching her to sleep by herself or potty training her or, really, showing her how to deal with any discomfort that lasts beyond a moment, which is a vital adult skill! But learning how to do it is unpleasant and that means she'll cry. She's asleep now, fortunately, and hopefully she'll stay that way for at least a few more hours.I haven't been the best at reading other people's posts, but I'm trying to get back on track! I hope everyone has been doing well.
