Woes of the Working Mother

Having worked 3 full days so far, I've come to a conclusion: bills suck. I miss my baby and I hate working till 11 o'clock every night. In all fairness, the shifts pass quickly and they need me there, but it's still hard. I only see Kelly for a few minutes in the morning while I feed the baby before he goes to work, for about 45 minutes on my lunch break, and from when I get home till he dozes off. Maybe a grand total of an hour and a half a day. I don't like this game. It'll get better eventually, but for now it really sucks.

Honestly, how could you not miss this face?

We tried a new tactic with getting Mei-Mei to sleep last night. Kelly started her bedtime routine: bath, bottle, book, at 7 rather than 9 or 9:30. He said it was hard to let her cry, but when I got home she just fussed for about a half hour then slept till 6 this morning. I think. There may have been a 3am feeding in there, but I honestly don't remember. I'm still frazzled from the last few nights when she wouldn't go to sleep till 3am, but still woke up at 6, then would fuss till 8 and then sleep till noon.

She's waking up now for her mid-morning snack. She usually wakes up pretty happy, unless she's really hungry. Right now she's in and out and just happy to be here. What an angel.