Home Alone

It's Tuesday night and I'm home alone again. JD's office has been 'very slow' of recent, which means he usually gets home around 9 pm and thus far no weekend work where he has to go to the office. But he e-mailed tonight to say it might be closer to 11 pm. Which is honestly fine at this point. I did basically no work today with 3 appointments and a meeting, and it's nice to have a few hours at my desk to work. Plus, I don't have any early morning plans so I can stay up with him till at least 1 am when he gets home and then just sleep in a bit in the morning.

My friends who have children keep telling me I'll get most of my work done from 8 pm to midnight once the baby starts to sleep in 2-3 hour blocks. But I really wonder if I've done enough mental preparation for the spring. Because of our crazy plan to move back to Europe (baby and I, that is), JD will be saving his family leave time for the end of the spring and back on this schedule within a couple days of my delivering. So I will be alone for a the majority of every day. On one hand, JD does not leave for work until 9 am or so he will have plenty of time with the baby in the morning, presuming she decides to torture us and do the normal baby thing of waking up between 5 and 6 am. And I know she'll nap during the day. But am I crazy? Is there anything I can do at this point to prepare?

Oh, and if you're wondering why this is suddenly on my mind, apparently our nanny (we're sharing a nanny with a friend on our street) wants a few more hours. And I'm trying to decide if I will really have the energy to work more hours this spring, and whether it's worth/excessively indulgent given our budget constraints it to have a nanny around even if I'm too tired to work but want to run out to the grocery store or gym (hahaha) alone when the weather is bad.

And also because I called JD's work several times today to tell him all my appointments went fine. And apparently he spends a lot more time in meetings this year than last - i.e. 4 phone calls and he never picked up at his desk. Of course, he has a secretary who can track him down and I had to assure her repeatedly that this was not an emergency today. I haven't met her yet, and I presume that the only thing she knows about me is that I'm rather pregnant and due any day now, so she was quite sure when I called for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th time that I really was in labor and didn't want to scare JD, and she kept telling me it wasn't a big deal to pull him out of a meeting (can you imagine how worried he would have been? when all I wanted to say was the my test results were fine).

Well, at least it will be entertaining to watch 2 such optimistically over-reaching people adjust to a baby's schedule. I'm sure we'll do it, but I'm not sure how gracefully.