Workin' It

So...I went back to work, part-time (phew! i'm so glad it's not full-time!). This week was positive in so many ways, so I want to share all those happy moments with y'all:

• Thanks to Paid Family Leave, Mark stayed home with Sadie this week. We thought this would be a good way to transition, so that I could concentrate on going back to work without having to worry about her being in a new place, etc...That will start next week. She'll go to Anne and Lon's to hang with her baby BFF, Kate.
• Sadie ate her bottle and was really good for Mark. She fussed sometimes, but overall me being gone was successful.
• Sadie slept through the night! I heard that sometimes babies wake their moms up at night after they go back to work to get extra snuggle time.
• My awesome Principal is letting me work 3 days a week. So nice of him. It's a great schedule.
• I really liked being at work. It was so nice to see my peeps (shout out to Monarch!) and it was really great to see the kiddos I work with (I know I'm not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition, but whatevers). It was so good to have adult conversations. I know that's a cliche mommy-back-to-work statement, but it was so so true! I'm a Reading Specialist working with small groups of students. Many of the kids have made little progress since I left (sad), so it's nice to be back...to hopefully get some progress made in these last couple months before summer. They have the sweetest dispositions.
• I watched less TV this week on Hulu because I was busy busy busy, so my brain felt a little less mushy. And the times I did get to watch a show--- oh, it was so divine! BTW the new Glee was thoroughly disappointing.
• I got to hang out with my hubby (and my baby Sadie) on my days off-- Monday and Wednesday! He's (she's) the best!
• We had earth day at my school today. I was with the group that cleaned up a local park. We had over 40 families cleaning this nasty park. The kids found so much trash-- shoes in trees, a janky stroller, jeans, carpet, car parts, and yes, a used condom (luckily they had no clue what it was!). Parents and students (and teachers) had so much fun weeding, cleaning graffiti off the play structure, planting flowers, wearing neon safety vests, and using the cool trash picker uppers the city lent us. Good times.
• I think I'm going to lose this baby weight going back to work. It makes me busier (and honestly, more motivated/engaged), so I eat less. I like that. We shall see...there's always a jar of chocolate in the office that's quite enticing!
• This week ended with a lovely family walk around Lake Merritt late this afternoon. It was pleasantly warm. Sadie was chipper. We walked, ran into our friend Lon (Sadie's soon-to-be babysitter), and ended up a Lake Chalet for a drink and a small bite to eat. Perfect. Yum, I still smell like sun.

Of course there are drawbacks to going back to work. The main drawback is that I can't be with my little baby all day. But luckily we have summer in 10 weeks! Yah!

Mark had Sadie snuggle my scarf and towel in my absence. She loved it. See below: