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Hey everyone! I'm back! Sorry for the delay... it's been a crazy few days and I've only been working on 'A Summer Journey'. If you're not reading it and feel like something completely different from 'Mistakes', give it a read;) Here's the beginning of part II, as promised. I hope you enjoy!=)
"I am exhausted! We've only been doing this for two weeks?!" Jane said as she took a seat in front of the kitchen island, grabbing the proffered cup of coffee from Maura. "Thank God for maternity leave…" she continued as she took a large gulp.
"I'm exhausted too, love. But you know that babies are a lot of work; especially when they're newborns and getting adjusted to a schedule. At least be happy for the fact that we lucked out and got a wonderful baby in Matteo, he is a very good baby and hardly cries."
"I know baby, I'm just tired nonetheless. I do know we lucked out though. What's for breakfast today? Would you like some help?"
"No thank you, I have everything under control. I'm making us some waffles with fresh strawberries," Maura replied as she went about getting the batter ready.
"My God woman, you spoil me so. I don't know what I'd do without you, and now, without Matteo either." She rose from her seat and went around the island to wrap her wife around in her arms. "I'm the luckiest person on the face of the planet to have such a wonderful family," she said as she kissed Maura softly on the lips.
Maura wrapped her arms around Jane's neck and continued the kiss before stopping a couple of minutes later. "As much as I'd love to continue, I know you're hungry, and so am I love," Maura stated. "We'll continue this once Matteo is down for his nap, how's that?" she asked her wife with a wink and a seductive smile.
"I LOVE the sound of that!" Jane said as she went back around the island and sat down once more. "Maur, I know we haven't talked about this, but I think it's time. Our maternity leave will be up in a month and I'm wondering… are we going to get a nanny or put Matteo in daycare? We should've talked about this sooner…"
"You know how I feel about nannies Jane. I loved my nanny, but I want a closer relationship with Matteo than the one I had with my parents. Still, I think it preferable than daycare," she replied pensively.
"Just because you had a distant relationship with your parents doesn't mean that's what's going to happen in this situation Maur. You're wonderful with Matteo and you're a great mother already. The nanny isn't going to be full-time, we'll take care of the baby once we're off work. We just need someone to be with him when we're not home. Ma has also offered to take care of him," Jane added.
"No Jane, I couldn't do that to Angela. She loves working at the café. I wouldn't ask her to give up her job to take care of our baby," Maura responded.
"You're not asking Maura, she's offering, but I see your point. I'll talk to ma," Jane replied.
"Alright. I think a nanny in this case would make the most sense, I truly do," Maura said.
"I do too, amore," replied Jane.
"Then the sooner we start looking, the better off we'll be. We have four weeks before we have to go back to work. I think that's a good amount of time to find someone," Maura commented. I'll get to work on it today and make a list of people so we can go over it and see who we can interview," she continued.
"Sounds great Maur," Jane replied back.
The two sat and had a relatively quiet breakfast, enjoying each other's company and looking over at the baby monitor constantly. Once they were through, they went into the living room to check on the baby, who was still sound asleep.
"I don't know how but I fall more and more in love with this little guy every single day," Jane stated as she picked up her son and kissed him softly on the forehead.
"It's not hard to do Jane, I love him more and more every single day also." She looked at her watch. "It's time to wake him up; he needs to eat," Maura stated as she took a seat and got ready to feed her son.
They'd fallen into a comfortable routine. Maura would feed him, Jane would burp him and rock him to sleep when it was time and they would take turns changing his diaper during the day. At night, they took turns changing his diaper and getting him to sleep so that he could get used to Maura putting him to sleep as well. Though the two didn't necessarily have to get up during the night, they did so anyway so that they could spend more time with their son and so that they would support one another with the challenges of a night of constant waking up and little sleep.
Once Matteo was fast asleep again, Maura got on the computer and thoroughly researched resumes and nannies based on a list of characteristics she and Jane had both agreed on. A few hours later, she had a list with about 15 names on it. She and Jane carefully went over every single one and decided it was too difficult to narrow it down anymore. They'd gotten all the contact information necessary and began making calls for interviews in the following days.
The interviews themselves went rather smoothly, with the majority of the candidates. Once they were done interviewing everyone, they realized that their list had narrowed only by a few names and they still had plenty of people to choose from. In the end, they decided to give five of them a test run with the baby, to see how he adapted with them and if there was any connection between them at all. They all had the experience necessary, but to Matteo that didn't seem to make a difference. In the end, it was he who made the clear decision: there was only one of the women out of the five with whom he felt completely and totally at ease. After observing her for a couple more days, Jane and Maura decided that she was indeed the perfect choice for their son, and told Gwen that she'd gotten the position and that she would be starting two days before they would be going back to work.
"I'm surprised that she has so much experience and is great with Matteo considering how young she is," Jane commented once Gwen had left for the day.
"I know, I thought that myself. She's young, only 28, but age doesn't really matter to me in this case Jane. What it important is that she is great with the baby, has a degree in child psychology and already has a few years of experience taking care of children. I truly think this was the perfect choice, love," she said as the two women headed upstairs to Matteo's room.
The two women walked into the nursery, made sure he had a clean diaper and kissed their son goodnight before retreating to their bedroom. They went about their night time routine, changed into their pajamas and got ready for bed.
"How much time do we have before Matteo has to eat again?" Jane asked Maura.
"An hour," Maura replied.
Jane smiled and leaned in to kiss her wife. "You feel like it tonight?" she asked. "We have a whole hour before we have to get up again," she continued.
Maura nodded and moved on top of her wife. "An hour seems like a perfectly good amount of time to let go to waste," she said as she reached down to heatedly capture Jane's lips with her own.
What do you think? Wanna read some more? Let me know what you think!=)