Busy, busy, busy

Well I am pretty much back to work full time.

Thursday I need to start my day getting started with a couple of articles that are due on Tuesday afternoon. Then at the end of the day, Sami and I will be taking a ride to one of my clients to pick up a ton of pages that I need to edit. They are hoping to have the edited pages back the end of the day on Friday, so I am expecting to work all day Friday and then Sami and I will bring the pages there the end of the day on Friday. If there are any pages I don't finish by then, I will take them back up early Monday morning. For the stories I have due on Tuesday afternoon, I will be doing as much as I can over the weekend, but because they are business-related and I have to interview people who work normal business hours, so I will be spending all of Monday doing my interviews and research, and then spending Tuesday finishing up the writing part. I am excited to be back at work, and because Sami is sleeping at least a little better I think I will be able to juggle both be a full time at-home mom, while also working full time. Yes, I'll be exhausted. But it's worth it to me to be able to keep Sami home and not send her to daycare any time soon. The truth I'm not ready to leave her in her in anyone else's care. I haven't even left her alone with my mother yet. For now, Sami and I are inseparable. :)

What this means though is that our house is back to being my office Monday through Friday during normal business hours. Since Sami has been home, we've gotten visits from my mother and a couple of others during the days. But being back at work, visits will go back to being in the evenings and weekends, since I really need to devote daytime to work, and need for the house to literally be my professional office during the weekdays. I am excited to get back to a bit of normalcy. :) '(Of course this all comes at the exact weekend when Steven's parents are coming down to meet their newest grandchild, but the evenings and weekend will allow a lot of time for them to spend time together.)

Today, Sami had her weekly appointment with the pediatrician. She is doing really great, and already working toward holding her head up. She now weighs 5 pounds and 14 ounces and is 19 and a half inches long! I can't believe how much she has grown. She is more beautiful each day, and every day I love her more than the day before, even though I don't know how that is possible. She is truly becoming the light of my life. Thank goodness her bassinet has wheels, because I roll her around a lot upstairs once she falls sleep in it, and put her next to my desk so I can watch her while I work. I love looking at her while I work. (Of course I love looking at her all of the time.)
Sami is going to stay on the new sensitive stomach formula, but when I make her formula I need to add a little less water (I have exact instructions from the pediatrician) so that I turn it into being a higher-calorie formula, to try to mimic the formula designed for premature babies. It's a little extra work, but it seems to keep her calmer, and perhaps she was getting stomach aches from the other formula, which is very rich. To keep her out of any pain, I do not mind the extra work at all.