So today was something like my first day back in the office after maternity leave. Not my leave, of course, my wife's. In the normal course if things she goes to work while I stay at home and look after the kids. We've had the luxury of maternity leave for about four months now though, but that is rapidly coming to an end.
So I have to start thinking about how to organise my days around being home alone with two small children. It's a little daunting, to say the least.
But it is a privilege too. My first child is awesome in so many ways and a lot of that is due to her having had me around all her life.
Without getting too preachy, it is an absolute shame more families aren't able to keep one parent at home full time. A better economist than me could tell you more about why mums working became less about the entitlement to do so than a financial necessity. Or maybe it is just as simple as people choosing to pursue financial and material rewards but just missing out on what is really important in their lives. All I know is we have less holidays than a lot of our peers, drive a crappy car, and so on, but we have two kids whose lives we are filling with memories of happy times doing things together.
Ugh, that does sound very preachy, doesn't it?
Well, it doesn't change the fact that I am going to have less and less time to myself in the coming months. And that means I am going to have to be more disciplined than I ever have been before if I am going to keep raising awesome kids and feel like I am doing something for my own life too.
And that is perhaps what is really daunting...
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