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Back to work

// December 2nd, 2008 // family

This week began with me back at work after having had all of last week off. I wouldn’t have minded taking more time, but I only have a few PTO days left and really wanted to use them around Christmas so that I can couple those with holidays and get almost two weeks off. My dad is coming out on the 19th, Jen and Chuck on the 31st…so having that time off will be good.

But the first day back was rough. I honestly had no idea how much I’d miss both of my girls and it really killed my motivation. When I got home and let Jina run off to do a few things, I just held Lyla and couldn’t get enough of her.

And now today it feels almost harder. Mostly because Lyla was up a lot last night and Jina got maybe 90 minutes of sleep. It’s so brutal for me to run off to work when she’s at home doing what she does all day. I’m thankful for her aunt coming over this week to give her a short break in the mornings, so hopefully she can sleep a bit today.

I’m trying to do what I can when I’m there, to make things easier for her. I’d like nothing better than for Jina to sleep when she is able and not worry about anything else. I told her I’d do the laundry, the dishes, the bills, give her a break when I get home from work, whatever. I just need to be able to get some sleep for work or I’ll be useless.

But even that makes me feel guilty. I know I have to work and if I don’t sleep, it will make things very hard, especially because I do about 95% of my stuff on a computer all day.

I just wish she could sleep more. Seems like Lyla is still trying to adjust to the day/night thing. We read that when she was in the womb, whenever Jina slept meant more blood would flow to Lyla and thus she would be awake more often. That means if Jina slept for 8 hours, Lyla would be more energetic then.

So obviously, she came into the world ready to party all night long. Getting her to switch is tough.

I know it will happen, but in the meantime, it makes things tougher.

With all that being said, we’re doing great. Friends from church offered to bring meals this week, Jina’s aunt brought us this awesome dinner yesterday (plus let Jina get a nap) and will be back today and Kathy went with Jina to take Lyla to get an immunization yesterday.

It’s a lot of work, but it’s all so very worth it. Lyla is beautiful, cuddly and we just stare at her all the time.