A new focus:

turning frowns upside down. :o)

Not gonna lie, I've been feeling kinda down and things have been pretty rough lately. Not rough in the way some peoples' lives are all the time, but you probably know what I mean. Transition is tricky. I have so many things to be happy about and thankful for, and here I've been, feeling sorry for myself.

Leaving a 3 month old to go back to full-time work pretty much sucks.

There, I said it. The root of all my tears and moping.

And since the title of this blog is 'laura, positively', it didn't seem appropriate to post until I was ready to shake this funk I'm in.

So, I think I'm ready. Or, at least, getting there.
And my good pal Bobby is helping me through.


And Bill too. I need to do some leaning...

not a morning person...

sweet ellie, giving me the evil-eye

this look pretty much sums up how i have felt both this morning and yesterday upon waking: disheveled, cranky, and overall upset to leave my sweet girl and return to work.

thats right. after a glorious past 12 weeks, most of it spent in a slightly euphoric new-mommy haze, i returned to full-time work yesterday.

ugh. slightly less euphoric, indeed.
so. hard.

but i am proud of myself too. i've made it through 2 days now, sans meltdown of any kind. and i'm becoming a regular pro at the whole "hands-free-double-electric-pumping-in-a-freezing-storage-closet"-- the convenient home of a very large AC unit.

good times indeed.

happy weekend!
can't wait to see my little Ellie Belly!