Haven't had a chance to catch up on all the news yet - but I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We had a wonderful time, although now it is back to reality. I am in the process of negotiating my return to work in March of this year (can't believe that it has almost been a year since I was last at work). My work have been fantastic. The lady who is currently covering my position is only wanting to work part-time, so it is looking like work will agree to me returning to work 3 days a week and the other staff member will do the other 2 days. Hopefully they will confirm tomorrow morning that this is okay.
Also have had an offer from the childcare centre that is my first choice for Jasmine to go into and very hard to get a position in... so hard in fact that they only offered the position to me today and I have to confirm it with them by 12pm tomorrow or it will have to be offered to someone else! So I am just waiting on confirmation that work are okay with me working Wednesday-Fridays and then we will be booking it all in. So it is back to work for me - albeit part time from March 3rd 2010.
I am so grateful that I have been in a position to have had a whole year of work with my baby and even more grateful about the flexibility my work is showing. But I am already getting so anxious about being apart from my angel. I am sure that she is going to love it and the centre is really good with its play based learning structure... it is me that is going to find it hard I think! Jasmine is ready to explore the world a bit more and I hope that she will find this stage exciting once she gets past the initial separation anxiety.
Sorry about the me blab, but feeling very strange about this new part in our lives. Brillant thing is that my gorgeous husband is taking Jasmine and I on holiday to LA and Hawaii for 2 weeks in Feb as a gift for me for all I have done in the past year with raising our beautiful girl - as if I need a gift, Jasmine is more than enough - but I will enjoy this trip!
Jasmine is crawling like a champ, pulling to stand, cruising around furniture and even letting go and standing on her own for brief periods. She is such a joy.
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