How I Spent My Maternity Leave

Watching Gypsy Wedding with Veronica and Jax on my last day of leave

Today I emerge from my six weeks of maternity leave to jump back into the fundraising game, complete with meetings, coffees, working lunches, trainings, and telling people that I'm sorry but Mammography is located next door.

But before I completely move on, I want to take a moment to reflect how I spent my leave and share it with you, as though you care about how I spend my time.



So- a listicle!  How I spent my maternity leave:

- Kissing baby cheeks
- In the ER with Vivian (twice)
- Washing out bottles
- Polishing off 12 books
- In the hospital with Vivian for a couple of days while she had an epic cleanse
- Thus, changing lots of big girl diapers
- Changing lots of baby boy diapers
- In Las Vegas with Jeff, eating and drinking and shopping and gambling and having a blast with our snoozing six week old in tow
- Visiting with family and friends and eating the delicious food they brought me.
- Wiping spit-up off of Jaxon's chin, out of his nose, off of my shoulder, off of his onesie, out of my hair
- Watching My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding with Veronica (which was so much fun, amazingly)
- Making lots of to-do lists, so I felt like I had accomplished something each day (which did help me get a lot done and keep the house relatively clean, but took away from cheek-kissing time)
- Dishes.  Dishes.  Dishes.  Dishes.  Dishes.  Laundry.  Laundry.  Laundry.  Laundry.
- Sleeping in.  Feeding Jax.  Feeding Vivian.  Changing Jax.  Changing Vivian.  Feeding myself.  Showering.  Marveling that it was lunchtime and time to feed everyone all over again.
- Baking every dessert ever.
- Thus, dishes.
- Kissing baby cheeks

It was a great time and although I'm ready to get back to reality, I treasured the time I was able to take to enjoy the family.  Plus, I read some great books!  Stay tuned for a post tomorrow with reviews.  

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