Back at Work

My first week back at work was nearly perfect: it felt good to get back to my old job, and I spent the week picking up open issues and new assignments, sorting out computer access and swanning around having coffee with colleagues while still managing to make it home every day by 6pm at the latest. On the homefront Monchi and Jochen got on famously...scarily she lived up to his unrealistic expectations that girls are ultimately easier than boys. At the daycare she was also very cooperative in the integration process and will already go nearly full time starting next week - that is if the municiple employees don't go on strike in the next days but that's another story. We even managed to serve a home cooked dinner every night this week. The only fly in the ointment was two aweful nights where she would not go back to sleep...no explanations except one which we could never believe: she wanted even more to eat. In the past six months each time her appetite spikes it usually takes us one or two days before we cop on, because who would have thought this little darling can pack so much away! And poop 3-4 times a day!!

That everything went so well gave me a big confident boost; however, it doesn't change the fact that the day to day routine is truly physically demanding, and that it could be easily derailed by illness or sudden long hours at work. I'm just happy that the two kids adjusted so well to my being out of the house again and amazed that Jochen still had the will to live by the end of the week. Good start!