Happy Thursday!

Today actually is an anniversary for m hubby & I, it's the 4th anniversary of the day I proposed to him. :)
We had dated from his last week of college until sometime the next spring when I went to Europe. I had met this other guy at college before I left & started dating him. He proposed to me at the beginning of the next school year. That relationship ended on Easter Sunday of '05, my senior year of college. I started visiting my now husband and we started dating again on my birthday (Aug 27th) and by Valentine's day of '06 I knew he was really the one and bought him a ring.
It had to be shipped. I don't remember what the date was when I received it. I was failing my one semester of grad school at the time and had a big test that day (though it was in the one class I did ace) and I had the little yellow slip from the post office saying I had a parcel to pick up. I am amazed at how well I did on that test b/c I was all butterflies & could hardly focus with that little slip of paper under my notes! When I got the ring I hid it and started planning my proposal. I had originally thought to wait until his birthday in mid-April, but I was going crazy waiting.
I am a quarter Irish & love the color green & St. Patrick's day. One of the receptionists at school suggested I do it on St. Patty's day. Well, I decided to include our friends, and St. Pat's day was a weekday that year, so I had my "St. Pat's day" party the next day.
My hubby helped me set up for the party. I was so nervous my tummy was getting upset. He was confused, it wasn't like to me get that worked up about a party with these friends, but he didn't think too much on it. We both get tummy troubles easily.
Our friends came over, once everyone was pretty much there & settled, I pulled him away from the couch (there was a coffee table in front of it) and into another chair & said my little prepared speech, got down on one knee with the ring held out & asked "Will you marry me?" Even though we'd been discussing it & I knew the answer, it seemed like an eternity before he said "yes!" The video shows that it wasn't that long. :P

Yesterday was a decent day. Amber & I were all dressed in green, my socks & her bib said "Kiss me I'm Irish" and our carseat is even green!
I did have a hard time focusing at work & for quite a while I was the only one in the disability support area, so I had to stay in case someone needed help. I accomplished almost nothing in the last half of my work day. My appetite was waning too. I felt a little emotionally off. I don't know if it's just a delayed reaction to going back & putting my daughter in daycare or general post-birth/nursing hormone craziness or maybe something's off with my antidepressants, but I definitely was not at 100%. My computer access is limited. I was gone long enough that I'm no longer in the system & have to push the paperwork through to get it all back. With everybody else gone, I was stuck unable to do much. My boss had logged me in as her so I could, but the video I was supposed to be working on wouldn't play (needed to restart the computer, couldn't do that b/c I couldn't log in as her again... couldn't e-mail the video b/c it was too big, etc) so I just kept e-mailing my hubby, taking short walks, trying to work on other things & just plain zoning out.

Now I'm not even sure if I'm going to make it to work because my daughter has been all snotty. She sounds like an old man snoring. She doesn't feel feverish & she slept alright, but she definitely seems to be fighting some sort of bug... Three days in daycare & already she's sick! Ugh!

Back to Work

Today's the big day! I go back to work, my daughter starts daycare & my husband starts his new position at work.

I don't think I mentioned his promotion before. I'm really proud of him. :) His degree is in chemistry, but he ended up working in the bank portion of one of the biggest insurance companies. Their headquarters are here in town. He started out with a temp agency job which he started right about the time my dad died. All the stuff we went through with settling my dad's 2nd divorce(that's a long story & yes, typically you don't have to settle a divorce posthumously, it's like it never happened & she's surviving spouse, but they bifurcated the divorce and were already legally divorced, but had yet to settle the finances.) and settling his estate gave him knowledge and experience in an area of the bank that needed a new employee; the decedent area. The way he helped me handle the complicated nature of my dad's estate showed his supervisor that he could handle the pressure and complicated issues, so he was moved. After a year ans a half total, he got hired on directly and moved over to the trust area. It's been almost another year and a half and he's gotten two raises and then his supervisor alerted him to a new position opening up. His super was also one of the interviewers. He got one of the two available positions and is already taking charge. He's working a sort of quality control now. In the specific area/track he's on now there's one more level up and he's feeling motivated now. :)

Of course, the new job also means stress, my going back to work is stressful, the baby in daycare is stressful... the fact that we'll all be gone might stress the cats out and one of them hasn't handled stress well in the past (and/or she's allergic to everything, she's on hypoallergenic food) and she tends to puke. Hopefully, since they normally sleep most of the hours I'll be gone anyways (I'm just part-time) they won't really notice & won't start getting sick again!

Like so many other moms, I'm nervous and sad about putting my kid in daycare, especially knowing that (especially with my hubby's new job) I could be a stay-at-home mom. I love my job though! I WANT to go back!
I still feel bad about putting her in daycare though. She won't be far, just down the street from where I work, but still. It's more the fact that they're strangers, professional or no, and there's all those other kids & as clean as they keep things, it's still a big germ-swap. I also hate the thought of missing milestones. She's already starting to rock towards her side, it won't be too long before she's rolling over!

I've probably rambled enough. I'll come back another time & tell you about my job & how I ended up there, more about being a mom and some of the arts & crafty stuff I've been doing.
I can't wait, my spring craft swap is tomorrow! I think, maybe that's the deadline... I either get my person's info tomorrow or Wednesday. I can't wait! I already have a few things in mind. :)