Our Day by Design

Today is my first day back at work after my maternity leave. I am back part time, for three days a week, so I still get to spend a couple of days with Holden. I always intended to take the full year off but I ended up having 13 months in total, including all of my accrued holidays, so it was a bit of a shock to the system having to set an alarm to get up this morning. I had to go and wake Holden up but I managed to get us both ready, drop Holden off with my dad and get to work on time. Hopefully I can manage the same tomorrow and Wednesday when Holden will be going to nursery. So far I'm getting used to all the systems again and I'm pretty sure that very soon its going to feel like I've never been away.

Although I have known about this since last Wednesday, I had confirmation yesterday that I'm going to be made redundant! Which is why I have been fairly quiet here, on twitter, and commenting on other blogs. Obviously this isn't the best time for it happen {is there ever a good time?}, but its not the worst either. Since I'm not going to work my 4 weeks notice, I will be finishing work today, which means that I will then have 4 full weeks off before the wedding, which will give me plenty time to finish up all of my DIY items {and maybe make some attempt to look for another job!} My sister and nephew are coming up next Wednesday so I will be able to spend some time with them before my hen weekend and afterwards which will be lovely. Thankfully for us, we already have all the money to pay for the wedding and everything that's been booked already and I'm still determined to enjoy our fabulous honeymoon, which has also been completely paid for. For once I'm glad we ...