starting and stopping work

Z is just over 8 weeks old, so I should have four weeks of motherhood-bliss ahead of me.  However

- the state of maternity leave in the United States is terrible.  I could have four more weeks off, if I didn’t want to be paid for it.

- we could probably manage to live without four weeks of my paycheck, but I’m nearly as frugal as my brother Brian, so I don’t want to.

So I’m working a few days a week until I’m back full time when he is 12 weeks old.  Sigh.  On the days that the Mr. has off, I go into work, otherwise I work from home.  This is not full time, this is more like one day spread out among two days of the week. So mostly I’m still being a mom, but sometimes I’m being a systems analyst.  And sometimes, when I breastfeed at the computer, I’m both.

And the Mr. gave his two weeks’ notice today, so that we can have a little more practice of me leaving and pumping breastmilk and having him practice being Mr. Mom before I start work full time.

Posted by Marie on October 2nd, 2008 under Uncategorized


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