Muddling Through Motherhood

My last post – only 6 weeks ago – was an update about how (some time ago now) I had decided that going back to work was not the right thing for me.

Now that Rowan is 15 months and really not much of a baby any more (walking really well and starting to communicate) and now that I am looking at the prospect of having to go back to work for 9 months while Lyne is on maternity leave (from around June, though perhaps earlier) I am starting to reconsider.

Its funny. Although Rowan has been interacting with other kids for some time, he’s now so much more of a little boy that I now walk past the nursery he would have gone to, hearing them playing outside, thinking how much he would love that.

My plan was for him to go to a play group from 2 (next January) but I think that’s term time only, so won’t work for us. That means reconsidering nursery, and I’m finding that that is actually something I can think about now – after hating the idea once it came to actually going to work. The fact that there’ll be plenty of work to do, and that he responds so much better to organised activities is helping me with the idea. I’m looking at a couple of 6 hour days a week until he’s 2 and can go for longer with his free place.

In other news, Rowan is now walking really really well (since the week before easter) and has a couple more teeth coming through – his second pair on the bottom at the front. They’ve just broken and seem to have stopped causing him pain now, though we can’t see them very well yet