Valentine's Day

I know it's a little late but here is my Valentine's Day post. This was the first time having a sweet little girl as my Valentine. Here are a few pictures of Ms. Hadley from the week of Valentine's!!!

Dinner at 

Olive Garden

Working, working, working.

        I love to read other blogs especially about mothers and their stories of life. One I particularly enjoy is Kelly's Korner. Every Friday she does a 'Show us your life' post that allows readers to link up their own blog. I'm a few days behind but her last "Show us your life' post was for Working Mom's. I thought that since this is such a big part of my life that I would link up and give a little information about my life working full time and being a mom. I am so very lucky to have a husband who helps out so much. Due to the INCREDIBLY RIDICULOUS HIGH cost of child care we try to watch Hadley as much ourselves as we can.(Don't get me wrong we have an incredibly sweet, caring, trustworthy lady from church watching her on the days we can't.) For the most part I am able to work Mon, Tues, and Sat. Therefore we only have to use a sitter two days a week. (I work three 12 hour shifts a week) Joe is able to watch Hadley since he works Mon-Fri. I also have an incredibly generous, loving mother who helps us out throughout the month by coming down and watching our sweet baby. This is such a huge blessing. Not only is it free but Hadley gets special one on one Grandma time and we get our house cleaned and supper made. She definitely goes above and beyond in every area. I hope I can be half the mom to my kids! My husband also makes sure to have supper ready when I get home on the days I work. I would say I am pretty lucky.

Grandma and Hadley

       I work as an RN at an Acute Specialty Hospital. It is a fun job with a lot of interesting experiences. I enjoy my job but would much rather be at home raising my sweet baby. Hopefully someday we can make that happen. Working brings certain difficulties to the home, such as doing housework, cleaning, and just running a home. On my days off that is the LAST thing I want to do. I would much rather spend my time hanging out with my sweet baby girl. So needless to say our house is not NEAR as clean as it was before having a baby not to mention there is baby stuff EVERYWHERE!!! haha But I absolutely love it and wouldn't trade being a mom for anything.

Grandma and Hadley matching!

       As a nursing mom I also have to find time to pump while I am at work so that my baby can eat. Being a nurse can make that a very difficult task on some days. Even finding 10 or 15 min can be almost impossible. I do the best I can and so far it has been working out. Which is good because formula is another thing that is ridiculously expensive. I hope to someday be able to stay at home and work on a PRN schedule. I want to be the type of mom who is there when the kids leave and home when the kids get home from school. I also want to be able to be involved in the classroom and go on field trips. My  mom worked part time and was able to be involved when we were in school and I really enjoyed that.

Hadley visiting me at work.

      I have huge shoes to fill if I ever want to live up to my mom's reputation but I will do what I can to be a good mom to my sweet Hadley.

~If anyone wants to donate a million dollars or so to me I wouldn't turn ya down! ha


 

3 Months

Hadley you are 3 months old. Each day just seems to fly by! You are growing so fast and changing every day. You are beginning to hold your head up so well. It is only a short time until you are sitting up all by yourself. 

~You are still wearing size 1 diapers

~You are wearing 0-3 months and 3month clothes. 

~You are still sleeping so well. Anywhere between 6-8 hours.

~We painted your toe nails for the first time

~You stayed with the baby sitter for the first time and we both survived

~You love sitting in your vibrating bouncy chair. You just smile and smile at the animals

~You still LOVE to snuggle, especially with your mamma

~You are becoming such a sweet little girl. As much as I don't want you to keep growing, I can't wait to see what you will do next. I love you sweet Hadley Ann.

 ~Oh and you are an excellent spitter upperer, hence the wet shirt.

This one was daddy's idea. Such a sweet baby!