The start of another week – sigh.  I’m staring down the barrel of my first full five-day workweek since returning from maternity leave.  (I came back on a Wednesday, so that was a three-day week, and the following week included Labor Day.  This is the first week I’ll actually have to put in Monday through Friday at the office.)  I’m still figuring out how things are going to work.  Last week was a bit of trial and error – lots of forgetting things at home.  Sometimes the forgotten item was something I could do without, like my lunch – not that I could do without eating all day, but I can always buy – and sometimes it was something I had to have, like my pump attachments.  (I turned around and went home for those when I realized.)  And I’m also finding myself in a crunch to get done all I need to do if I want to visit Nugget during the day, which I have been doing most days.  Last week I did no lunchtime reading whatsoever – on Tuesday I had a meeting; Wednesday and Friday were planned lunchtime daycare visits; and Thursday was an unexpected lunchtime daycare visit when I got a call that Nugget had eaten ALL of his food.  I’m hoping to feed him at lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to start, and either add or subtract days as seems appropriate.  This coming week I have another Tuesday lunch meeting, so that leaves maybe Thursday for an actual reading break – unless I decide, or am called, to visit the daycare again.  This new schedule is definitely hectic.

Hectic schedule notwithstanding, I had a very productive week in reading!  After laboring over it for six weeks, I FINALLY finished The Fellowship – a literary study of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and other members of the “Inklings” group.  To be honest, I found it a bit of a slog.  That may be due in part to me being verrrrrrrry tired, but I still think it wouldn’t appeal to any but the most diehard Inklings fan.  I enjoyed the Tolkien parts, was rather put off by the Lewis parts, and yawned my way through the rest of it.  I finally closed the book on The Fellowship on Friday night.  On Saturday I finished The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, which I absolutely adored!  (“Pray do not corrupt the cats with poetry.”)  And then I polished off No Regrets Parenting as well, just for giggles, you know.

This week, more parenting: I’m almost done with Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (and just in time, because Heaven help us, we’re sleep training Nugget – staying up holding him almost all night long, between the two of us, has gotten to be too much).  Then I think I’m going to start The Custom of the Country for Jen‘s and my #FallingForEdith readalong.  I’m in a lull with library books – I have two holds to pick up, but I’m letting them sit on the shelf a bit longer before I grab them – and the remaining two I have checked out can be renewed.  An unusual circumstance for me, and perfect timing for reading something off my own shelf.

On the blog this week: a Nugget update on Wednesday (six months old!) and another vacation recap on Friday.  Stay tuned!

Hope you all have a great week, my friends.  What are you reading?