Trying to keep busy

If you know me at all, you know I am a busy body. So now that Connor and I have a little more of an understanding/schedule down during the day we have become more and more active. This week we went to the gym, walking with 4 other moms and babies, went to Weight Watchers (Connor's trying to lose some weight, ha!), went shopping, went to the library for storytime, went to yoga, went to new mom's group at the hospital with 15 other friends, went for a hike and coffee with some other new moms and tomorrow we are going to another library and lunch with 23 moms and their babies from Las Madres (a mom's group/playdate group we have joined). I started a Facebook group for some of my friends with kids to coordinate activities and it has been nice to spend time with people who have new kids.

What's new.

Lately we have been focusing on what we will do when I go back to work. It's a very emotional thing for me to be dealing with, not because I hate my job, I love it. But I love being with Connor a lot more. I know realistically that I need to work and I know myself enough to know that this will be in my best interest (and Connors and our families) that I go back to work but still it's hard to think about. So we are interviewing nannies. We looked at a daycare but I pretty much wanted to run away when I heard that one caregiver can have up to 6 kids at once...no thanks. Not to be a brat but my kid needs more attention than that right now. I can see it when he's older but not now. So even if I have to eat ramen noodles for the rest of my life, I want a nice nanny to give Connor the attention I want him to. But the idea of having a nanny worries me too, we have to find someone whom we trust not only with our only child, but our home, our dog, our belongings, etc. So the search is on, we have had 3 interviews so far and 2 coming in the next week. We haven't "fallen" for anyone yet, so we will see if we find our Mary Poppins.

It's been a while...

Hi all, so no recent posts mainly because our computer hard drive crashed. This is particularly devastating to me because Steve and I had planned to buy a backup hard drive literally the week it went out. So now we have lost all our photos of our precious baby and the videos that we have taken of him. All photos pre-baby have been backed up (thanks to Steve), this got done before Connor came after weeks of nagged from his annoying wife). So now we have to ship this hard drive to who knows where and pay $500-1000 to *hopefully* recover our photos/videos. I am pretty bummed about this.