You have to be wondering what I do all day while normal people are at work, right? I mean, I would be wondering. I didn’t think it would be all bon-bons and Passions or anything, but I don’t think I was prepared to be so busy and yet…not do anything. Since I try to anticipate your every need, here is an actual accounting of how I spent last Wednesday at home with the beautiful Nora (who I have a feeling is going to be very good at math).
8:05 am – Fed Nora a bottle and put her back in bed, without much hope she would stay asleep.
8:25 – Took two breaks from breakfast to put Nora’s pacifier back in.
8:35 – Pumped.
8:55 – Started the dishwasher, and in the process accidentally stole the hot water Blake was trying to shower with.
9:05 – Read a few blogs while waiting for my email to load.
9:20 – Took a shower and got dressed (actually, it was quite a coup to bathe this early in the day).
10:00 – Ate my assigned snack and started checking my email.
10:30 – Pumped.
10:45 – Fed Nora her two ounces, which she does NOT think is enough.
11:05 – Gave Nora a bath with the yummy-smelling Aveeno soap (hard to tell, but I think she is loving the baths lately).
11:25 – Put away the load of laundry I folded last night, while Nora barely tolerated sitting in her Papasan chair.
11:30 – Consoled a crying Nora and convinced her that lying down in her crib was not the worst idea since two-ounce bottles.
12:05 – Made and ate lunch, and finally finished reading my email and deleting spam. Responding will have to wait for another day. Oh, I also retrieved the errant pacifier four times.
12:30 – Pumped.
12:50 – Fed Nora a bottle.
1:15 – Bundled Nora into her stroller and took a walk–we dropped things off at two houses in the neighborhood and got some prints made at Inkley’s to mail to my brother Jeff (I took along my 2:00 snack and ate it on the road).
2:30 – Pumped.
2:50 – Unloaded and ran the dishwasher again.
2:55 – Started a load of laundry and put a clean one away.
3:15 – Fed Nora a bottle and started the last disc of Gilmore Girls season 2.
4:00 – Snuck Nora into the crib while she was asleep, and ate a snack in front of the end of Gilmore Girls.
4:30 – Pumped.
5:10 – Fed Nora yet another bottle.
I only wish my days at work would have gone by so quickly.
For the one person who is still reading, this is the eating/feeding/pumping schedule the lactation specialist put me on last week. Now we’re on to the next phase, so the schedule is different but similarly full of nothing.