Score!
March 27, 2008It’s about time I got off my keister and confessed – I’ve opted to work part-time, mostly from home, gracing The Office with my glorious self only once a week. After pulling the whole Goldilocks routine on Dream Company – no this schedule is too many hours in the office, no this one’s too many hours at home…ah, but this nifty schedule has the perfect balance of work and home hours. Slurrrp!
I know, it’s criminal to have so much luck concentrated into one person, but yup – I’m testing it to the max. My reasons for doing so have been beaten to first solids puree consistency and none of them have changed. This just might be the right decision for me because I’m no longer a bawling, slobbery mess when I come back home to my Nibbles and I can actually focus on work without the suffocating guilt.
Damn! It was so easy to judge every mom’s decision pre-Nibbles. Today, if I see a mom who’s been brave enough to make a parenting decision with her heart and mind intact, I say r-e-s-p-e-c-t sistah!
Wow…congrats.I wish you all the best!! Ah…its so tough to be a mother
I hope you enjoy your time with your little one.
NP: Thanks Homecooked! Still haven’t found the perfect recipe for guilt-free mommyness
wish the b*tch of a life gets half as lucky for me before I lose my sanity!
NP: I’m way past the point where I need to worry about losing my sanity!
good for you babe
and me too, i’ve just about had to eat every single word i said about parenting before parenting. so yeah, respect!
NP: thanks girl! What’s your work situation these days?
ok come sept. i need to make a decision for Kaju…after sept. am losing my support system as she moves her base to south africa to join my dad…so there u are…all gleaming with happiness and here am working my ar** off and breaking my head to take THAt decision
all the best gal and happy for u and nibbles…and hope to get the support of the b*tch of the life (like how mayg has put it
) and ofcourse u and i hope i take that decison soon…wish me luck gal 
NP: Thanks IBH! Yes, life can be a bitch, but I’m counting on the fact that every dog has its day
guilt free mommyhood? does it exist?
actually i do try and sit with an air gun and go blast everytime a guilt bubble begins to form. poof! as easy as that. just that i have not done anything else other than go bang, poof, bang, poof…all day. and all the waking hours at night.
but more power to you- you seem to have made a decision using both heart and head!
NP: guiltfree mommyhood is an oxymoron alright. I’m trying to focus on the various shades of mommyhood though, and emphasize on the good, bad and ugly, rather than mush it all into a depressing gray.
yay way too cool. I’m hoping to go the part time way as well. But, but what happens to the career now? Does it not now convert itself into a mere “job”?
NP: I don’t love what I do yet, so it’s still a job. Some of the power managing directors at Dream Company have taken the maternity break/brake and managed to resuccitate their careers fabulously. I think one needs to really be passionate about one’s career post mommyhood if it needs to survive, or else it will always lose out on those tough kid vs job decisions (if there’s a perfect balance, I don’t know of it)
Good luck with the part time thing!