First time

Lately my husband has been bugging me to ask my mom to babysit so we could go on a date. Well, I was nervous about the whole thing, because Nadija is breastfed and I have never been away from her for more than twenty minutes. My mom comes to visit every friday, so yesterday when she came over, we decided that she would just stay and babysit after Nick got home. I wanted my first time away from her to be a short one just in case either she or I couldn't handle it. So we decided to go out to eat and make it a 2 hour date. When the time came to leave, I was putting it off as long as I could. Questions were racing through my head. Would she cry? Would she be scared? Would she need me? Or worse, would she not even miss me? I cried as I gave my little girl a tight hug and walked out the door. I felt like I was abandoning her! I had knots in my stomache as we drove away and Nick tried to make conversation to take my mind off of it. We arrived at our desitination with me still in one piece and sat down to order much needed drinks. I had one margarita which helped to settle my nerves. An hour into our date I called just to see how things were going. My mom reported that Nadija was smiling and giggling and just being her silly little self. I became more comfortable with the situation after I found that Nadija was coping just fine. We did a little Christmas shopping and a bit later I called my mom to let her know that my cell phone battery was going dead so she wouldn't be able to call me. At that moment she told me that Nadija had just nooded off to sleep and everything was going fine. After finishing our shopping we arrived home almost exactly two hours after we left. Nadija was just waking up from her short nap and alas, she was still in one piece! Not that I want to make a habit of leaving my daughter, but I suppose after proving to myself that everything will be ok, I can start dating my husband again!

He's checking his list...

This afternoon, my hubby took off work early so we could take Nadija, our daughter, to see Santa Claus! It being her first Christmas, pretty much everything is a big deal. So we got her dressed in her red "On the nice list" shirt to show Santa that she's been a good girl. Off to the mall - er North Pole we went! We stood in line behind all of the other children waiting to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas. A few cried, a few gave Santa Christmas lists and others sat on his lap just for a quick picture. When our turn came, I didn't know what to expect from my little elf. Would she cry? Laugh? Grab Santa's beard? We walked up to the most amazing Santa ever - bright blue eyes, white beard and little wire glasses perched on his rosey nose. I sat Nadija on his lap, and she did just as I hoped she would. She sat there, looked at Santa a couple of times and squeezed out a tiny smile for the camera. So her first visit to see Santa was a huge success! Ahhh, I love this time of year! I'm so excited to teach Nadija everything about Santa and fill her with Christmas joy! Stay tuned for a picture of Nadija with Santa!

My first post!

Yippee! My blog is finally post worthy! I have some more tweaking to do as far as color and side bar add ons go, but I'm thinking it looks pretty decent for the time being. My daughter has been sleeping for about an hour, so I think my online tinker time is running short. So more tweaking will have to wait until the next nap!