I’m thankful that both Pat and I have employment. Sure it can be hard to get up every day and leave my children. But I’m thankful that I have a job and that I’m able to provide for them. It can be stressful and exhausting trying to juggle motherhood and full-time job outside the house. I often feel like I’m constantly going, yet not much ever gets completely done. I supposed that can be said for being a parent in general. I don’t have experience being a stay-at-home parent (outside of my maternity leaves), but I know when I’m home with my kids they are totally exhausting and pretty much make it their mission to destroy everything in their path. Sometimes I’m grateful to have the respite of work. I can be an adult and have adult conversations. I can talk about current events and life in general, instead of Paw Patrol or Pokémon. I love my children, but I definitely appreciate them more when I’m not around them 24/7. And I think that they have gained so much from being around people other than me.
Working an opposite schedule than Pat definitely isn’t ideal, but it works for us right now. I know people who have spouses that travel for work and gone for weeks at a time. That would be a hard situation and it makes me very grateful that it’s not us. Pat and I depend on each other to do this whole parenting thing. We are lucky that our jobs are semi-flexible and that we both have a good amount of vacation time. We work to live, we don’t live to work.
Mitch visited me at work last week...
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