New working hours 7-4

For the past 1.5 weeks, i have been trying out this new work schedule of 7-4. Which translate to, me waking up at 6 and reaching home at 5. The whole goal is so that i can cook dinner and spend some time with Emily before she heads to bed every night between 8-9. We try to bring out out for a walk, feed her some baby cereal, bath and read story book. Yes.. all these between 5 to 8.

I'm sooo tired that i go to bed around 10pm now. And i wake up at 1am and 6am to spend 15-20mins to pump breastmilk. And every 4 hours or so, i have to pump milk while at work.

The coolest thing about working at Microsoft is that they have really cool Mother's room., for all the breastfeeding moms to go pump breastmilk. It's really a nice room and the moms can do the pumping in private. You be surprised how many moms are breastfeeding in my building alone. The room has secure code lock, fridge and shelves etc... After hearing all the stories about moms having to hide in storage rooms to try to pump milk while risking being peeped at, i feel i'm lucky to have Microsoft as an employer who cares about their staff.

Also, being at work this early means i get the best parking lots in my building. Yes.. parking is terrible at my building. And i get much work done before the rest of my team comes in. Yep, they are usually in around 10. So far, my teammates have been supportive of me working 7-4. Although i do check emails at night but that's just the normal us. Yup, we loved our emails and check on them non stop.

Oh, and i try to cook soup or pot of dish that can last us for a day or 2. This way, all we need to do is cook rice and vegetable under 30mins for dinner. I did consider us eating out instead of me cooking our meals. But the issue is the food ain't super healthy and i think i will get bored of eating sandwiches/ pizzas in order to keep each meal under $10.

And i'm into soup these days. Well.. Derrick loves soup and i try to cook a soup each week to last us a day or two. Experimented with several herbal tonic soups and i must say they are healthy and taste yummy. And we are reducing the portion of our meals and try to eat more fruits and space for a little icecream after dinner.

And we changed all our lunch boxes to those glass ones from LockNLock. We feel safer to microwave lunches in glassware than those plastic BPA free ones.

This is the new me, aka mommy who works full time, breastfeeds her baby and cooks Sunday to Thursday. Let's just say it's been super tiring but we are getting the hang of it. Thank goodness that Derrick helps me out, otherwise i think it's impossible to be the new me. Also, Emily for being cooperative to the new me.


Here's us going out for a walk in the evening.

pss.. Derrick gives in to me for the pamperings i give Emily. Yes, i feel bad being away from her for most of her day. But i know she's in good hands.