So it's been a full week since I've returned to work after my maternity leave and boy oh boy am I feeling it! I'm lucky enough to only have to do 3 days a week, but I'm just really struggling to fit everything in...
On Mon & Tues I have to drop the wee fella off at Nursery around eightish, in order to get back in time, sort out the boys, walk them to school, come back, jump in the car and drive to work. I then do an 8 hour day, drive back to pick up baby S and then grab H & F from after school club. A Tues isn't sooo bad, compared with a Monday when I then have to take them all down to the football pitch to watch F train, before bringing them back, getting baby S to bed and doing H & F their tea, before getting them to bed. But as it is, it's usually at least seven or eight before I even get to sit down and think about Henry, Fred and Felicity, then I normally get 30 mins (1 hour) if I'm lucky, before I then have to start on 'our' tea (you'll notice my OH is never around at tea time as he's either working or at squash/golf #convenient). By the time we've finished eating I feel I need an hour or so to relax in front of telly before I go to bed. By Tuesday night I feel like I've done a full week already and I just want to get 'crafting' and have a glass of wine!
The rest of the week isn't so bad as I'm off Wed & Frid and a Thurs, Grandma has the kids so she comes here and there's not so much running around. But of course what I had 5 days to fit into, I now only have 2, so gone are the afternoons of crafting to my hearts content. It really is a case of never a free moment...
My SIL text me last Wednesday (1st day back at school for the kids) at about 11 and asked if I was enjoying the peace and quiet! LOL I nearly screamed down the phone. I was already on my second load of washing, was trying to place an Internet shop, had a teething baby, trying to keep up with twitter and Facebook, while writing a press release.
It would be so easy now to just give it up and say, hey it was just too much, but I'm a fighter, I'm determined and I know that in a year or so I won;t need the day job and I'll be the one laughing and enjoying my crafting time again. That's what keeps me going...
That and the faces on kids when they are fast asleep in bed looking like angels!
Night x
Never give up...we never know our true potential if we stop at any hurdle in the road!!
ReplyDeleteYou are achieving great things Fay....the only 'down side' of being so creative is that it's hard to let other people take over the reins...even when we really need them to!!!
I believe that 2013 has great plans for you and H,F&F.....you just need to ride out the bumpy ride...Gayle xxx