Handing Over Gracie

Before my amazing husband - aka 'Metal God' - takes over watching Gracie all day, I'd like to share how my experience has been staying home with her. I - aka 'Mrs. Metal God' - have been blessed enough to be able to take my 12 weeks off of my senior accounting position to stay home with our new daughter Grace. It has been absolutely wonderful and has gone WAY too quickly! I LOVED being pregnant but I absolutely LOVE being a mommy! I have just enjoyed every minute of Grace - from the special bonding times when we nurse to the poopy explosions that happen afterwards! Our days are pretty simple, we eat, poop, and sleep...and then repeat! I usually try to set at least one goal for myself everyday - whether it's to vacuum, check my email, or pluck both eyebrows! That way I don't feel like the day has completely gotten away from me. Since Grace is our first baby, we both had no idea what to expect. In a way John has it a little easier with his 12 weeks because now we're both pretty familiar with her hungry cry versus her tired cry and so on. I had to figure these out the hard way - although I enjoyed it! Also Gracie is much more alert now and is smiling and cooing at us - John is going to have so much fun playing with her! I know I've been a little paranoid and overly protective with Grace going outside, etc (afraid she'll get bit by mosquitoes, afraid she'll get sunburned...) - but John has helped me not to worry so much (it really must be a girl thing!). I really haven't gotten Grace into any sort of a schedule yet. She is still very much on demand for when she's hungry or tired - I think we'll worry about setting more of a set schedule when we get her ready for daycare (which we haven't figured out yet and I don't want to!).