Working Mummies Support Group

[MummyNaomi]

PN hope you feel better in the morning

WYSIWYG - she generally has a three hr nap. If she didn't sleep so well I wouldn't be as productive. I can also attend to lots of things via email, meaning I don't need to literally be in front of my laptop. I often shoot things off from my phone while juggling DD. Today I was ploughing away through my workload, heard DD wake and realised it was 5 mins past the time I usually leave to pick up DS from school. Thank god DD woke or I might have just kept going. Got there in time luckily. Mother of the year candidate for sure!! Have set an alarm on my phone for the days I do school pick up now!!


I'm in a rut though, the daily grind of balancing kids, work and getting to childcare/school etc. DH and I feel like it's Groundhog Day. DD is rather high maintenance which doesn't help. Need to invest in our social life and get out a bit more, with and without kids in tow.....

[Astrid]

I'm in a rut though, the daily grind of balancing kids, work and getting to childcare/school etc. DH and I feel like it's Groundhog Day. DD is rather high maintenance which doesn't help. Need to invest in our social life and get out a bit more, with and without kids in tow.....

Same. Time just feels like it is flying by and we feel like we are not doing "anything". Trying to do more fun stuff and things that have a purpose.outcome like finishing the curtains, redoing the girls wardrobe, sewing for me . Just means we have to stop being so lazy of an evening and do some boring housework, so our weekends are freer for doing those things.

Just trying to work out vacation care. Ouchies on the bank account now as I have to pay for two of them. Wish I could pay it monthly in the lead up to it. I just have to get better at managing the finances!

[MummyNaomi]

Just trying to work out vacation care. Ouchies on the bank account now as I have to pay for two of them. Wish I could pay it monthly in the lead up to it. I just have to get better at managing the finances!

It's expensive isn't it. Ours is $50 per day, thankfully the Childcare rebate applies to OHSC and Vacation Care. DS is going two days in the April Holidays. I have arranged AL for the 2nd week and with my RDO, work from home day and my Mum we have the rest covered. DHs Mum/Step Father could have him, but..... I'm not a big fan of them as carers, the couple of times they've had him, they've disappointed me both times. They looked after DS recently when he was recovering from an ear infection and we wanted him to have another rest day from school and DH and I just couldn't take another day off work. We've sent a healthy lunch with a small treat, and they ended up feeding him three donuts instead I know they love him but I dont completely trust them. Step Father is a terrible driver. MIL encourages poor behaviour, then we have to undo it all when he returns home, so its just easier not to use them unless we are literally desperate (eg have used all our carers leave etc). So instead he will go to a couple of vacation care days. One of them is an excursion morning to 'The Food Forrest", and the other is an Easter Craft Day - he'll love both and is keen MIL asked what he was doing in the school holidays, I felt a bit bad but I just positioned it that he wanted to go to Vacation Care with his friends.

WYSIWYG - I hope the perfect job with work/life balance comes up. I cant imagine how hard it is, I've got a pretty good arrangement obviously. My boss has 5 kids which makes him very accommodating even though I know he'd prefer I was full time. I wish all employers were so understanding. Fingers Crossed something comes your way that has the hours that will suit!

[wysiwyg]

PN hope you feel better in the morning

WYSIWYG - she generally has a three hr nap. If she didn't sleep so well I wouldn't be as productive. I can also attend to lots of things via email, meaning I don't need to literally be in front of my laptop. I often shoot things off from my phone while juggling DD. Today I was ploughing away through my workload, heard DD wake and realised it was 5 mins past the time I usually leave to pick up DS from school. Thank god DD woke or I might have just kept going. Got there in time luckily. Mother of the year candidate for sure!! Have set an alarm on my phone for the days I do school pick up now!!


I'm in a rut though, the daily grind of balancing kids, work and getting to childcare/school etc. DH and I feel like it's Groundhog Day. DD is rather high maintenance which doesn't help. Need to invest in our social life and get out a bit more, with and without kids in tow.....

Yes hope you are feeling better P/N.

I know what you mean about the daily grind - we do still get out a fair bit with the kids in tow (in this little flat we have to get out) - but the house is a disaster area. DH often offers to take kids out so I can rest/sleep or do boring house stuff - but I don't always accept because I am sick of missing out/resting there has to be some fun in life, and I don't want weekends to be always one or other of us with the kids and the other at home resting or whatever.

I am so fed up over the whole work situation - yes this job I am finishing at Easter, but after that what - who knows. Everything I see in my arena just wants to many hours - it pays well but I don't really care about that - we just need a little bit more than DH earns (plus I like to be working some of the time) but so far all the more suitable things time wise I am too experienced for, or as I have never done that exact title then don't get considered.

I feel naive that I never considered working after having kids would be this hard (not the actual kids and working thing - which is hard but I expected that) but the sorting out a job which works for family life as well. But then I suppose since pre-kids the industry has continued changing along the off-shoring path and is all the jobs which have gone off-shore that were the most suitable for regular hours and minimal travel etc.

At least I am not regretting my decision to finish where I currently am, last night found out while online to speak to India (who no one had told me were on a public holiday) that managers at work have promised to deliver three significant pieces of work by next Friday - without even asking me on dates - and they reckon they have built in contingency. I have 5 working days left between today and next Friday and even if I manage an extra 8 hours spread over evenings - I won't even come close. There is at least 10 solid days work from me and that is not building in any time waiting on things to be done in India.