posted by Lindsay @ 3:08 PM
Sharing the journey that has taken me from being a single girl in the advertising agency world to a married mommy running my own freelance writing and consulting business (and every random adventure in between).
THINGS I LOVE: Thunderstorms, power ballads, princess camping, exploring new cities, Jon Stewart, greatest hits CDs, clever ads, packing for a trip, George Clooney, impractical footwear, movies about spies, Starbucks, reading an entire book in one sitting, a house full of friends, movies about spies, buying presents, a perfect French manicure, warm modernist architecture, getting flowers for no reason, being faux brunette, Mary Poppins, making lists on Post-It notes, decorating for Christmas, having a brilliant middle-of-the-night 'aha!' idea and then actually remembering it in the morning / THINGS I HATE: People who whine, wearing sweats in public, 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, birds, American tourists in foreign countries, taking down the Christmas tree, poems that rhyme, the misuse of semicolons, being lied to, unpacking after a trip, being closed-minded, naming your kid something common but then spelling it stupidly, cowboys, overly cautious drivers, fake curse words, ridiculously long surnames, strangers who start awkward conversations with you in places you can't readily escape
5 Comments:
It's partly 'you can't have your cake and eat it too' besides the hormones. You will survive because you will learn all sorts of creative mothering things while you are absent from the office...could be called Motherhood 100:)
It's because you love your job and you haven't yet hit that point where it occurs to you that you're *actually* having a baby. I know that seems dumb, but trust me. It still won't seem real as you're packing up your desk and heading out of the office on your *last* day.
It WILL, however, seem VERY real when the nurse tells you to "just breath through the pain until it's time to push" and you do, while secretly thinking about how you'd like to inflict a little pain on HER and watch HER "just breath through the pain until it's time to push."
And then you'll take itty bitty Briony home and you'll forget how you used to fill your days before she came along... And a year will fly by. Just ask Corina and Megs. It was back to work day today. Not sure if the babies or the mommies cried harder...
ka has it right. exactly right
And think of all the other friends that are, or will be on mat leave at the same time as you. That's a huge blessing, isn't it? You are not alone. And I'm on some kind of "leave" too! Party time!
I agree with all of the comments here. I had a *very* difficult time giving up my job (even temporarily) to someone else because my identity was directly tied into my job. Without my job, I thought I would be irrelevant.
I found out I wasn't.
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