hello all!!
i have missed so much...
firstly i am sure md's Dh is coming home today!! YAY!!! enjoy your family time (will he get a few days off) and relax - i hope you get some wel deserved time to yourself. you have done so well, much admiration from me!
I so hear you all on needing the time out. in some ways i guess i am lucky i am back at work, in some way that is time out but then again i have so many request on my time and so much to manage we all need a break at times. i am thinking of making some mumma time a regular thing.. i do a coffee on thu morning before work by myefl which is nice, after i drop N at care.
MM i hear you on the mem fox stuff - i get what the others are saying re her intentions but it still doesnt help the mother guilt. i am supportive of whatever choices ppl make for their families, you never know what the underlying reason are for decisions so who are we to judge. for example, what does 'need to work' mean? for mental health reasons? financial only? career? balance in life? expectations of self? what abotu if tyou need time out for other reasons not work? some of us dont have family help? some couples need the time out together? etc etc etc... i think that research is thwre for us all to read and balance our decisios on but once a decision is made we should support all families in the choices they make... anyway i hope i havent offended anyone, it is a sensitive pt for me... esp as i heard another person on the weekend say ' i dont agree with putting your child in care, i mean no judgement but i had my kids to LOVE them'.. WTF!! and that i after one of DHs friends quizzed me on my work last weekend and said 'wow you are really rising through the organisation... but how can you leave your child' education to someone else??' ok vent over... sorry girls that rant prob doesnt belong here...
Noni sorry this wasnt your month, not mine either i think but am waiting for AF and temps doing v bizarre things...
Clare WOOOO HOOO on L's walking!
Cally - glad she i settling in more. how is work going?
ok better go, lots of work to do before i 'rescue' N from care LOL!
back later