Everyone who has finally noticed that I'm back at work asks the same question.
"Is it hard leaving your girls everyday?"
There is no easy answer because
1) Yes is is hard to leave my girls at daycare instead of getting to watch them everyday.
2) It is nice to know that Alaina is getting good social exposure to other kids and learning in a structured manner that it would take me months to plan out let alone execute.
3) It is nice to challenge my brain with things at work and interact with adults during the day
But most of all, my working allows us to continue to live in our big house. Jeff and I sat down before we had Kayla to look at our finances and see if I could stay at home.
You know how everyone says there is always a way? Well there was a way for me to quit working full time. We could . . . .
a) have me work part time when Jeff is at home 20 hours a week, but Jeff and I would never see each other and the girls would only ever be with one parent at a time. Not to mention I would never get to do anything on the weekends.
Or
b) move out of our house back into a very small apartment with barely enough room to sneeze without running into each other. And doesn't that sound fun?
Anyway, Kayla will be two months this thursday which will be very exciting except when I have to take her for her immunization shots.
Yuck.
4 comments:
Your post summed it up perfectly for me. This being my kids' first day back to their daycare center at our church after an eight-week hiatus. Every year it gets less relevant. Every year they enjoy their friends/preschool/school more. Each year it just gets sweeter. :0) Enjoy every minute you are with them. And be thankful for the work you can do to keep your awesome home.
Did you at least give up the mall job ?!
I think it's great that women have a choice if the do or don't want to work. Every mom is made differently and we need to support one another. I'm so glad I got to be home with my children when they were young but now realize that it made lots of my friends crazy to be home with their kids. (I'll get off the soap box now.)
Oh by the way- I LOVE THE PIC!!!!!!!
She has grown so much!! I am so excited for the pic. I hope to be home in a year and a half to be the best aunt ever. (And the coolest gym instructor you've ever had...)
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