It's been awhile

I am not going to lie. I haven't really missed you. Oh, I *know* we spent countless hours together over the past year or so. And let's face it - the time was pretty dang intimate. I mean, just hours and hours of you slaving away for nine months, five days a week, three times a day for 30 minutes a session. It was practically a freaking love affair, but I would be a liar if I said I thought about you longingly these past weeks when I haven't had to drag you to take care of business.

You don't have to tell me that the fact that you and I even still see each other from time-to-time may raise the eyebrows of some. Well, whatever. Here we are again today - albeit for just a short spell. This new-found flexibility to just go once a day sure is nice. That would have helped about nine months ago when I felt like my life revolved around you.

Oh, well. I'd do all of those hours all over again for my girl. She never had a drop of the fake stuff. And I'm really proud of that.

Catch ya later, Freestyle. You've always been faithful to me even when my feelings toward you harbored on dread.

Already 10 months?

It seemes like time has flown right by. Zoom - and now my baby's already 10 months old.

There's so much to say, and so little time to do it in.

Along the way, I guess I've become what I'm calling an accidental lactvist. Why bring this up? Well, I had to drag out the old Medela Freestyle pump to get in my last of the three pumping sessions I've done at work practically everyday since returning when my daughter turned three months old.

That means I've been pumping for...about 210 hours. I can't say it's always been fun. Um, no. But worth it? Yes, every single minute.

She's had exactly zero drops of formula, which is not to say I'm bad mouthing formula. That's a different post for a different day. But, that's not my choice for her. And I feel like it's darn awesome considering I work full-time.

I always love the question, "How much longer are you going to do that?" But that, too, is a different post for a different day.