Mat Leave Life: Full Force ....loading now!

It's been a while. The words stopped flowing over the winter as we dealt with snow and everything that went along with selling my Mom's house and all of her estate business. Winter consisted of: snow, trips to Erin to clean out the house, more snow, Christmas, New Year's, swimming, more snow, trips to Erin to prep the house for market, appointments with the bank, more snow, house on the market, mild spell, follow-up with the bank, house sold, snow, Salsa Babies, swimming, snow, bank appointment, waiting for closing date...

Spring all of a sudden showed up and days seem to be speeding by, The house did close and I have been left a little lost. My job as executor/executrix (whatever you want to call it: person who gets to do all the paperwork, running around to the bank/lawyer, following up with the bank to make sure they did the thing that they did wrong three weeks ago and said they would fix but didn't do it right...I'm not mad still about that RBC but maybe a little) is slowly winding down. Thank goodness I have been off though. I don't know how executors do it while working!

Mat Leave Life: Full Force

Since getting out of the hospital, taking care of Mom's estate has been at the forefront of my brain. I am finally trying on this mat leave life with full force. Mom friends have told me not to count down, BUT I have roughly 17 weeks until I return to my paying job. With these 17 weeks, I am hoping to fit in as much maternity leave fun as I can because, to be honest, I feel I was a bit deprived of some of the experience. 

The biggest trouble I have at the mom and me programs is relating to the other mom's. Mat Leave Life: Full Force, as it's usually definied (hanging out with baby, going to mom and me program's, no crazy ridiculous estate appointments), is all they have known. Most didn't have to live in a hospital for the last bit of the pregnancy or wait forever and a day for their time in the OR to come. Most also didn't lose their mom so close to the birth of their first child and have to come home to sort out an estate. It can be difficult to relate to these mom's because I view their pregnancies and their maternity leaves with such envy because they were "normal" or more normal than mine. All pregnancies and maternity leaves come with their own trials and tribulations, but most of the time these aren't shared at the mom and me programs. When they are shared, I usually hold back because I don't want to seem like the one-upper to get sympathy or pity or whatever those looks are on people's faces when I tell them what happened.

That being said, I am sharing here, but I don't know who reads this or if anyone will read this. Lucky you, it's anonymous!

I am hoping to continue blogging a little bit more as I start Mat Leave Life:Full Force to help organize my thoughts and for Ava to look back on one day in the future. By that time, she will probably be able to put some microchip in her head and all the memories will just imprint on her brain. The tricky part about blogging is time, especially since Ava still does not like napping. Most days I spend her naptime driving around the Georgian Triangle with her in the backseat sleeping. I have definitely been down all those roads that you see from the road but never go down to see whats down there because you don't have time. I even found an amazing addition to the short-cut to Erin.  One of my many goals for Mat Leave Life:Full Force is to get this child to nap in her bed!!!

Blog Name

I guess I should change the name of the blog from "The Human Oven" to something else. We were officially told not to have any more children with my oven, so we are closing the shop down.

If you have any suggestions for a new name or anything I should add to my Mat Leave Life: Full Force to do list let me know by leaving a comment :)

Ava, working hard.