Kat at Home

We've been asked if Kathy is going to return to work, and we purposely left our options open. She didn't feel strongly enough before the birth that she definitely wanted to stay home and be a mom, or definitely go back to work. Our finances will be fine for a while, we saved pretty good heading into the birth, but gas and everything going through the roof and the stock market down, etc., I said just after the birth that if she wanted to stay home that would be fine ... until maybe the new year. After the holidays we could use the cash and Kathy by that point may be more ready to have some time away for a few hours a day. Well, her maternity leave time was coming up at her work, and Kathy wanted to give them plenty of notice to leave - so that's what she did, letting Arlington Orthopedic know that she will not return to work. As it turned out, the decision had less to do with finances or her motherly nerves, and more to do with her recovery. There's no real red-flag concern, but also not something I'm privy to discuss in an open forum, but let's just say that she still needs some time to recover. Child-birth related woman stuff. So, she'll be around the house a little more in the coming months.

All the books told us that we'll start to know our baby's cries. We'll eventually interpret cries and what each mean. Right now we know his cry when he's hungry. After that, I interpret every other cry as him crying "Mommy!", while Kathy - coincidentally enough - interprets the same cries as him saying "Daddy!" We have interesting debates about this on a nightly basis and it often brings humor to a non-humorous event.