Making
my old life work with my new life
June 1, 2017
I’ve been back to work for about a month now and wow oh
wow are things a lot different than I thought they would be. Don’t get me wrong
I didn’t think everything was going to be unicorns and rainbows but I thought
there would be a few hiccups here and there. Little did I know they would put a
huge roadblock in that plan.
I went back to work for one day and then was at home with
a teething fevered baby for the next 2 days. Then the weekend came and I worked
almost all week except for one where one of my littles was sick. The rest of
the month was pretty much the same, days off here and there for reasons that
were beyond my control. I had no idea heading back to work would cause this
much disruption in our day to day lives.
This got me to thinking, how in the world is this going
to work where I’m not missing half a month just to take care of my kids. When
will this cycle end? I don’t really know how to handle this situation as I’ve
never been in it before, this is all new to me.
I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed as I don’t
really know how my old life and my new one will fit together. Do I need to
completely abandon my old life now that I have kids? I don’t think so but I
think I need to make some adjustments. I want to try and keep some of my old
life in my new one as that is the person that I am and honestly I don’t think
that we’re meant to change 180 degrees when kids come. We make adjustments, we
make arrangements, we make it work. And that’s what I’m going to try and do.
I want to try and find that balance between work and
home life, try to be there for my kids, the Mister and myself. I suspect as
time goes on it will be a lot of trial and error but I will get there. I am too
determined of an individual not to, I will try everything before I give up.
For now, woe is me. I will try not to wallow in my self
pity and try to think of ways to move ahead and find that balance. Once I do, I
think all parties will be happy campers.
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