Well we are back home and needing a holiday to recover from the holiday! I don't think holidays will ever be holidays ever again to be honest. At least not until the kids can fend for themselves!
Our trip was great and it was so good to catch up with all the friends and family over east. Izzy did really well with all the travelling and meeting so many new people. She was a real trooper and it's nice to know we really can drag her anywhere and she copes just fine.
Sleeps are a bit all over the place again lately. I'm not sure if it's the travel, a phase or more teeth but she's waking once or twice a night again now. She slept through a couple of times while we were away but that was it, mostly she was up twice a night, usually wanting a feed. I'm getting used to it now (after 16 weeks of perfect nights!!) but I can't make sense of it. Any ideas? I celebrated my 31st birthday while we were away and she had her worst night in ages and was a right turd the whole day. We opted to celebrate my birthday the following day instead. So much for the lovely first family birthday I'd dreamed of! I'll try my luck with Mothers Day instead!
Izzy is now commando crawling and starting to pull herself up on things. She discovered all the fun things in the TV unit yesterday and took a liking to the Playstation remote. It's looking like it's time we baby-proofed the house.
We are trying a few more interesting things with food but Izzy isn't all that keen on lumps and texture yet. I've whipped up all these amazing dishes for her on the weekend (like spinach and dahl!) but she'd much prefer the pureed stuff. Argh! I'll keep perservering even though all my hard work will probably be fed to the dog, LOL. On a positive note, she is a fan of finger food. We've tried Cruskits, zuchini, carrot, bread, banana, crumpets, toast, brocolli and cauliflower and have had a few choking incidents. Keeps things interesting, doesn't it?!
I've been feeling a little down lately as stupidly, I feel like I have no purpose in life. I know that's crazy seeing my purpose is being Izzy's mum but I just really feel like I've lost my identity. I think I need to do something but I don't want to work, so what do I do??? I've been talking to DH about it tonight and I'm thinking I might do an online course or some sort of study. I think I might join a mum's exercise class or maybe go to the gym again and put Izzy in the creche. Something for 'me' would make all the difference, I think.
While I'm talking about work stuff, I'll explain my 'old' life. I was a Product Manager for an investments company (a subsidiary of St George Bank) for a year before I had Izzy. Prior to that, I was a QA/BA (Quality Assurance/Business Analyst - mainly website testing) in the IT department for the same company. I worked in IT for that company for 6 years and loved it. Unfortunately the Product Manager role was full time so although I was offerd maternity leave, I knew I didn't want to return full time. I could have returned part time to testing but I didn't want to be committed to a return date so I resigned. The door is still open for me to return but I'm not sure if I want to go back. I've worked on that same website for so long that it's not that challenging any more but then again, anything seems challenging (mentally) now! LOL.
Sanchez - I hope V is OK after her nasty constipation! That's terrible hon. Izzy had a couple of bouts of constipation and both stewed pears and apples worked a treat. I ended up putting apple in all Izzy's meals to help and it really made a difference. I offer Izzy water at each meal and randomly throughoutthe day but she's still not that keen on it. If V is still breastfeeding a lot then she will be fine hon.
Kelly - that was full on with the egg allergy! How scary for you and well done for handling it so well!! I'll be keeping a close eye on Izzy when we introduce eggs. So you're an IT geek too! How's the testing going from home? I was only saying to DH tonight that maybe I could call my old work and see if I could do just 8 hours a week of testing. It's so easy to do from home and 8 hours over a week would be easy to fit in. I do miss testing, sadly!
Sangie (or should I say Doc!) - how's it going working from home? Who/what do you write for? What an interesting job! I admire you! I can write well when I put my mind to it but it doesn't do it for me. I had to write online Help documents for the website I worked on and it was my pet hate. Once I got writing I was ok but I fluffed around like an old woman at a christening each time I stared a new document. Drove me nuts!
AM - welcome back! Sounds like your trip was great but a but crappy at the same time. Bugger about the vommy virus. How did you cope with it? And how did Sam cope? Well done on tackling the long journey home on your own. Izzy coped really well on all our flights on our hols but the thought of doing it all alone scares the hell out of me! Well done hon, you did a great job by the sounds of things. I just hope Sam settles soon and starts sleeping on Aussie time. You poor girl!
Art - lol, I'm a nerd too. You win though, I didn't go to Uni! He he he. Isn't it amazing how much crap you need to take away with you once you have kids! Izzy had her own suitcase for our trip (plus her pram and car seat!) and her case was the biggest of the lot!
Hi everyone else.
Right, time I focussed on the important things in life - Desperate Housewives
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