Workerbee and Quinn&Domingo

I am back in the workforce! It was so weird putting myself together for the first time in..ah...a YEAR (bedrest and 6 months maternity leave a year makes). I was waiting for the bus all business casual, lipstick, latte and everything. I was sizing up the other commuters wondering if they could tell it had been a while. Could they tell I had new shoes and a new purse? And did they notice, no, that is not a huge laptop, it is a breastpump? I am not really this narcissistic. I know that no one but me noticed my new shoes, er...or noticed me at all.

It was hard to be away from Quinn for so long, but it was also okay. And I enjoyed being that person who is needed in a professional setting for a skill set that I have put a lot of time and energy into learning.

We had a great weekend with Domi, Chris and Alice. Domi and Quinn seemed to manage their new friendship with panache. They stared at each other, they shared toys, they shared a bath and they culminated the weekend with a crying symphony. They harmonized side by side in their car seats, their parents helpless to comfort either of them until the carride ended 20 minutes later.

Seriously, it was a great visit and we are very impressed that Chris and Alice actually followed through with the hard-core dealing when visiting friends in another city. They were also wonderful to me while I totally freaked out at least once a day about going back to work yesterday. Good friends are good to have.