Justinshannonteaching.blogspot.com Website Review

Ten weeks of maternity leave seemed to have pas*ed in the blink of an eye. Granted, I was already two weeks in by the time little H was finally born, but still. I had such grand plans for how I would spend my mat leave: I’ll go to the gym and workout every day! I’ll just bring him along in his carrier and workout while he naps. It will be so easy!! I’ll clean and re-organize the entire house! I’ll take up macrame crafts! I’ll take the shopping bus and have coffee at a cafe twice a week!  Ha ha ha ha! It was surprising to my naive self to learn how many hours of each day were actually taken up by, you know, like taking care of the actual baby! When you figure that each feeding, start to finish takes up about an hour, and that he eats about every two to three hours, well then there goes a good half of your day. Then take into account the diapers, the dressing, the singing and playing, the tummy time and cuddle time, and yeah, that’s a whole day. So while I didn’t get to accomplish all of the perhaps unrealistic projects I had planned, I was extremely grateful for the time I got to spend bonding with little man. So it was a bit of a shock to realize that my gift of time had come to an end and it was time to return to work. As it would happen, I was due to return to work just 3 days before winter holiday. This actually turned out to be a nice little practice run before the real return to work in January. Harris and I took a tour of the nursery the week before and met all of his caregivers. We also met all the other babies or nursery mates that would be keeping H company during the day. He was given his own personal crib for napping The night before, we as*embled the items that Harris would need for nursery, including a blanket and bottles, diapers and wipes, a change of clothes and a little rattle and picked out his first school outfit. Justin insisted on brushing his “hair” so that he would make a strong first impression. Though H is still sporting a very distinctive hairline - dark and lush around the nape, and barely visible on the