One more day with my baby

Well, tomorrow is the last day I have left of maternity leave. I cannot believe it has been 12 weeks already. It feels like just yesterday I was coming home with my newborn baby. I know that time will go even faster once I start back at work. I still have lots of anxiety about going back. It will be hard to be away from Claire and hard to get back into the swing of things. I do worry about how my knee will hold out. I still have stiffness in my right knee which gets more uncomfortable as the day goes on. Being on my feet walking lots for 12 hours might prove to be quite a challenge. I will have to see how it goes. I know Jeff is looking forward to me going back...he is hoping that once I am required to start thinking again, my memory will improve! I hope that is the case too.

Claire is just so amazing. I could spend 24 hours a day holding her and cuddling with her and I am going to miss her so much when I am gone at work. It is going to take all that I have in me to not call Jeff every hour to check on her! He will have to expect a few phone calls though during the day. I am praying that the anxiety about going back to work will be worse than actually going back. I do miss my co-workers and my job, just not as much as I will miss my baby girl.

We are planning to close on the house we found the end of this month. We are very excited to start this next chapter in our lives and to be able to finally settle in down here. I know lots of people said they didn't think we would stay down here once Claire was born. I guess us buying a house in TX shows everyone just how much we love living down here. The nice part is that we have an extra bedroom just for Nanny and Papa to come stay every winter. I am hoping they come visit often so Claire will grow up knowing her grandparents and because I get lonely without seeing them too. We will keep you updated on how our move goes and once we are settled in, we can post some pictures of our new home. Until then, you get to see more pictures of Claire!