Blur

Today, January 3rd, was my first day back to work after 3 months of staying at home with my new baby. I am a high school Spanish teacher and after 3 months of my students being taught by someone else there was a lot of adjusting to be done. Being the planning type, I chose my outfit the night before and gathered everything I would need for the day and decided to go to bed early because I planned on getting up at 5:30 just to make sure I wouldn't need to rush. Well, if you didn't already know, babies don't always do what you want them to do and by 11pm I had finally managed to put my daughter to bed along with myself.

At 3:30am Derek and I were awoken by our screaming child and by 4am were finally able to go back to sleep. At 4:45 we were again awoken by an upset baby and were then able to sleep a teeny bit more until our alarms went off at 5:30am which we promptly snoozed until 6am.

Now that we are thoroughly sleep deprived we now have to get up and get ready for our day. Lilly, my daughter, required more of my morning time for her 4th meal in as many hours and by the time I was done with her I had just enough time to scarf down the oatmeal my father made me, jump in the shower and toss my butt in the car. When I arrived at school I was excited but slightly worried about what kind of classes I would be greeted with. Would they have horrible behavior problems after my 3 month absence? Luckily, my students remembered my slightly strict classroom style and were not horribly behaved. They did however have plenty to say about my substitute. They told me all sorts of stories about what he did and didn't do and I started to get slightly worked up. But, I kept in mind that kids like to exaggerate and didn't let their opinions and stories affect me too much.

I did however have a problem remembering their names and because they weren't in assigned seats anymore it made it that much more difficult. Each class came and went with very little time to breathe in between. Then my dad, who is living with us and helping take care of Lilly while we are at work, brought her up to the school during my prep and lunch. With feeding her and myself as well as expressing any milk leftover into a bottle for her later my lunch and prep flew by. I then had 3 more classes which are the worst ones because they are 9th graders and very large in number. Then dad brought Lilly up for me to feed and visit with again at the end of the day before I had to go and sign a ton of papers to close our mortgage refinance.

By 4:45 I finally arrived home with only 45 minutes before I planned on going to the gym to work off leftover baby weight. Did I mention I developed a migraine around 1:30? So, now it is 6pm and I am finally home. I then manage to shower, eat something, pick out my outfit for the next day and feed my daughter. By 8:30pm I am exhausted and we all go to bed. So, my day was a blur of students, baby, gym and sleep deprivation but, now it's over and I'm ready for tomorrow.

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