I don’t have a smiley, happy photo to share with you today as this week has seen some massive changes in our house-hold. I have started back at work for three days a week!
The reality of this change struck when I dropped Poppy off at child care on Monday morning, and realised it wasn’t just another ‘settling visit’. As I left her, I felt my bottom lip quiver and tears stinging my eyes as I grasped for my phone to call Nick.
Work has always been my ‘baby’, but I feel my priorities have now changed. I am a very different person since I left – pregnant – last March.
Being back at work felt foreign, yet strangely familiar at the same time. On one hand I slipped back into my role, remembering my login password, which directory ‘such-and-such’ document is saved and interacting with a range of different people. On the other hand I was craving to be with Poppy, which felt like such a ‘primal’ urge.
On Monday morning I sat down with Poppy and Maisy and held a little ‘house-meeting’! I asked them to be brave and told them how much I have loved spending every day with them, but then I started to cry! I am so dramatic!
I know it will get easier. X
The Poppy Files 
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