Toxic Tuesday

Question: Is it possible to keep a small PR company running and look after a newborn baby?

Answer: Not without having a mini breakdown.

Yeah so this is not a good week. Had to go to Birmingham today for a client meeting. Wasn't originally supposed to be back on client work until October (officially) but needs must. We're a member of staff down and my number 2 in the business is drowning with all our other clients. This should be a good thing (as it means we're in demand) but it feels like a terrible thing right now. Stress levels are at an all time high.

So am back in the thick of it. Early morning commute to Birmingham then ran a meeting on 5 hours broken sleep (Audrey is a poorly wee thing and didn't sleep well last night), travelled back to Manchester and spent another two hours on the computer typing up my client notes. And so it begins.

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do. I just love looking after Audrey more right now and wish I could focus on her. But the business needs me. Am so torn!

Luckily I have very helpful and understanding parents and in-laws. Today it was my in-laws day to help out. But they had a spectacularly bad handover from my husband this morning (he was also rushing out to a meeting) resulting in them not eating all day despite getting up at 6am to drive to ours (I'd bought them a pizza for lunch that sat in the fridge but he forgot to tell them), being left with no keys so they couldn't leave the house and a misunderstanding which led to Audrey only being fed every four hours (she feeds every three normally).

Disaster! Plus Audrey was still really out of sorts and for the first time they saw her crazy screaming fits after her feeds. They looked rattled when I arrived home. Really felt for them. And all on an empty stomach too!

So all in all a pretty rubbish day.

Right come on Wednesday, you're up.
I deserve some good luck this week. How about Audrey's better and I have no work issues tomorrow? Oh and if the sun could shine and I could have lost a few pounds when I jump on the scales in the morning? That would be pretty dandy too. Here's hoping!