Only three more days...

...until I go back to work, and I'm SO sad! I don't even know where to begin, but it's all I can think about today. I just look at him and almost burst into tears, because I want to stay home with him everyday, and I don't want to leave him. I want to spend my days with him, but it's not an option for us right now. Hopefully at some point, it will be, but not right now.

I go back to work next Thursday and Friday for half-days, and I am off on Monday, because he gets his two-month shots. I can't believe that he'll be eight weeks old next week...where did the time go? It has flown by already!

Today...I have lots to do. We have company coming for the whole weekend, and we are going to Greenville, SC on Sunday, so Weston can meet his great-grandparents. I need to straighten up around the house and go to the grocery store in preparation for our weekend guests, but I don't want to do any of it, and I haven't moved from the couch since we woke up this morning. We played together this morning after he woke up, and he is now napping in my arms. I can't put him down. I'm just dreading it, and I know that I'm going to be even more sad next week.

I'll keep you posted on how it goes, but it might be a few days until I can post again!

On the road...

So, unfortunately, I got roped into traveling to Mississippi this week, because I need to transition some of my responsibilities over to one of my coworkers, so he can cover for me while I'm out on Maternity Leave. The guys that I work with most often are in MS, and he is in Montana, so we've decided to meet half-way between us in Mississippi.

I'm preparing my office and gathering my things to head out this morning...I'm not looking forward to a seven hour drive to MS today and back on Friday, especially not at 32 weeks pregnant, but I don't have much of a choice, unfortunately. I'm a little nervous about the drive...it'll be a long one, and I have had pretty strong BH contractions the past two nights that lasted for longer than I would have expected. I told Grant that I was going to go ahead and pack my hospital bag when I get home from my trip! Ha-Ha! I don't really know when I'll pack my bag, but I hate to be going this far away without any friends and family. I have great coworkers, but it's going to be a long drive.

Anyways, my posts and comments may be sporadic this week as I'll be out of the office, and I won't be able to get online until I get back to the hotel in the evenings, but I'll post as I have the availability. Hope everyone has a great week, and I'll be back! :)

Pregnant & Work Travel

Edit: I have two doctor's appointments the second week of travel, so I was able to get out of that week. I'm SO thrilled! I didn't want to have to reschedule both of my appointments, so I just asked about it, and they said it wasn't a problem! Yes!!

So, I'm only 19 weeks pregnant, but I already don't want to travel, especially when it comes to traveling for long distances. Unfortunately, I travel some for my job which is going to stop next year when the baby arrives, but I'm going to have to travel some in the next few months, and I'm trying to figure out where I should draw the line.

I'm traveling to Mississippi the Week of September 21st. It's a 6-7 hour car drive from Athens, and I'll be driving by myself. It won't be too bad, but I don't think that I'll be super comfortable driving for that long, especially since I need to drink water, but I don't want to stop every ten minutes. I've already committed to this traveling, so there is no way around it, and I don't think it'll be too much.

I've then had a request to travel to L'Anse, Michigan the Week of September 28th. First off, I'll have just traveled the week before and spent the entire week away from my hubby...I don't really want to do it two weeks in a row. Second, I would have to fly and drive to get to our office there. It would be a minimum of a 4 hour flight, then another 1-2 hours to drive to our office.

Next up, they want me to travel to Bingham, Maine the Week of October 5th. That's the following week, so that would be three weeks of traveling out of town and without being with my husband. It would be miserable. And the flight and drive in Bingham is even worse than the one to L'Anse. It's about a five hour flight to Bingham.

Anyways, I know I'll be fine to go to all of them, because I won't be that far along, but I just really hate that they are even putting me in that situation by asking me to go out of town for three weeks in a row after I'm half way through my pregnancy. I'll be 22 weeks when I go to Missisippi, then 23 weeks in L'Anse and 24 weeks in Bingham.

I also hate traveling with a passion, and I don't want to spend three full weeks out of town without my husband. It's not fun, and I don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy not being able to exercise in the comfort of my own neighborhood or gym, and I don't enjoy not being able to decide what to eat, because our choices are limited, and we have to eat out.

I know...I'm full of complaints, but I just really don't want to have to go to all three, and I'm not sure how I want to approach the situation. I'm going to request to only go to two. I know that I'm going to Mississippi, but possibly, only go to either L'Anse or Bingham. What do you guys think? Any suggestions?

What a Relief?! Whew...

So, I have a semi-strange work set-up in that I live and work in Georgia, but my company is based in Seattle with the IT department being mostly in Montana and having operations in 18 states throughout the country. This makes for a situation where I work with people from all over and from many different time zones. My boss lives in Montana, so I don't talk to him very often. He communicates with me when he needs to, but he doesn't monitor me or micromanage me, so I may talk to him once a week.

He is in Georgia this week visiting and having some meetings with everyone down here, and he requested that we have breakfast at 7:30 this morning. I was nervous, because I knew that it was time to tell him about my pregnancy. I also was a little worried that I might get let go, because of the current climate and the industry that our company resides in. Good news is...he didn't let me go!! :) And he was thrilled with my news! He was excited for me, and he said to let him know if there is anything at all that he can do! It was great, and I showed him the ultrasound photos! It's great to know that I work for such a great company and boss who is so positive and easy going. I travel a lot for work, and he was able to make me feel better about how we are going to deal with that now that I won't be able to travel as much! It's going to work out just fine, and I'm SO excited about it and so relieved that I've told him, and it's over! Yipee!!