Maternity leave is over... I'm back to work.

Here's the deal: I love my job.  My boss is incredible and the company is really taking off.  I was checking my work email from the hospital.  I came into the office for "visits" (a.k.a. meetings) twice while on leave and also created the employee evaluation process and procedure as well as the review form.  I had initially planned on using up every bit of leave I had accrued and not returning to work until the second week in March, but there was so much going on here I offered to return early (2-1/2 weeks early - only 6 weeks after giving birth).  BossMan was thrilled... then he shut down communications. 

When my mother was in town we came in for a visit because I've told her all about BossMan and BossMan knows all about Mama.  We arranged to come in and chat for a bit, but when we got here, BossMan was on the other floor.  Rather than go up and have to deal with everyone I called the receptionist and asked her to let him know we were here.  He took his sweet time, making us wait for 45 minutes... poor receptionist gal called back to apologize and said, "I don't know why he's dragging his ass, he knows you're down there!"  By the time he showed up we got 3 minutes with him before he left for a meeting.  Later that evening I received an email apologizing for the "wierdness" but saying we'd catch up later. 

Since then I've hardly received any correspondence from him at all.  Slowly, my enthusiam and eagerness to return to work started to fade - until it disappeared entirely.  Now, I'm back to work and BossMan is off in another country and the only think I've heard from him is to make the employee review process my priority once I return as it needs to be completed 2 weeks from today.  I'm bitter.  This is at the very least one more week I could have had with Baby and one less week I'd have to pay an obscene amount of money to have her in daycare.  Instead, I'm up to my ears in work and needy people.

On a more pleasant note... here's a pic of Itty holding her new Baby a mere 18 hours after her birth.