my maternity leave ends today and i'm going back to work tomorrow. i'd more or less started work while i was on leave and my job allows me to slowly ease back into the routine with a lot of flexibility with regards to "clocking-in" and "clocking-out". i'm blessed in that way, save for summer internships, i never had a desk-bound job. i'll miss my little squirt but frankly i miss having structure in my days too. Admittedly, compared to Inspira, i'm less accomplished throughout my leave. I can count with one hand (my husband will also gladly do this) the number of times I cooked. When my babe naps, so would I. And even when I'm not really sleepy, I would surf the web, read or stare at him while he sleeps (lol - i'm a stalker in that sense). So, i got away with not caring what day it was, what time it was. And that unstructured life is nice only to a certain extent. i miss the satisfaction of drawing up to-do lists and crossing them out. so tonight, i feel slightly accomplished - my work bag is packed, and i already have a nice little to-do list drawn up for tomorrow's return to the office. i know i'm going to cross it out really quickly too - if there was a change in me after birth, it's that i'm hyper productive now because i want to rush home to cuddle my little babe.
so, motherhood and career... i've had my ball and chain moments when i started embarking on either route. but now they'd made peace with my stubborn brain quite nicely. which might explain why i'm loving jailbird stripes now. top - alimrose designs at little styles ; bottom - coney island ceramic ice-cream and milkshake mugs from cupcake courier.
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I so miss work, as strange as it sounds coming from me.
And I so do love stripes. It's such a happy pattern which reminds me of the boardwalk carnivals.
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