When I was pregnant I really thought I would go back to work. I couldn’t imagine losing interest in the company we spent years building up, but it seems that having a baby drives everything else out – for a while at least. I have tried going back to work, but we just haven’t managed to find anything that works for all of us.
Currently I’m trying to spend some of my time keeping the house tidy and taking some of the housework burden from David so he can spend more time at work – something he still enjoys, but cuts short because nothing is more important than time with his son. Hopefully that will work out for all of us, until later this year when I’ll need to be back to cover the admin when Lyne goes on maternity leave.
That leaves me as almost a full time mum. At the moment Rowan is making this quite easy as he has a good cheery time in the morning when I can get some housework done. And recently he’s been napping, on his own or with minimal resettling, for an hour and a half or more each morning (but I’m not going to bank on keeping that as it might have been last week’s MMR that is making him sleep more).
To keep a little bit of myself seperate from mummyness I’m trying to keep BabySlingHire going and hopefully increase sales . I suspect I might need something else in the long run, but as Rowan gets older I’m learning that plans are made to be broken. There aren’t many decisions I made when pregnant that have stuck – and quite rightly because I really had no idea what to expect.
In other news Rowan is still not walking, and I am being an annoying pushy mum because I expected him to be walking early – after all he’s been cruising for more than 5 months! He is getting better with his talking but of course nobody but David, Jenny and I understand him. He can say odd things like “this “(dish”), “that” (“dat”) (normally in the context of “I want” with furious gesturing at something), “Daddy” (but only when he wants to), “Datch” (Patch) and I’m pretty sure he said “Anne Yenny” (“Auntie Jenny”) in Ikea yesterday.