So today was my first day back to work from the holiday break. Due to the inclement weather which included Arctic temperatures and heavy snow, I was blessed with three additional days off from work and I truly enjoyed my vacation. I was surprised at myself that I did not send my son off to daycare at all during this break for at least one day. Instead, I kept him home with me and I soaked in all of his mannerisms and personality. I even contemplated for a second as to whether or not I could actually become a stay at home mother. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought that maybe I would succumb to laziness if I was a stay at home mom but I know now that at the core of me is a maternal instinct that goes beyond teaching right from wrong and it extends to setting good examples even in the domestic arena. I found myself getting in a routine and the days began to flow where I felt like I accomplished something different each day. I must say too that power cleaning is effective. If you are focused and you keep it moving, a lot can be completed in simply 30-40 minutes.
The night before I went back to work I could not sleep very well because my mind was going a mile a minute in anticipation to going back to work. It never fails. Every time I go back to work after being off work for at least a week, it is very difficult to get a good nights sleep the night before I am scheduled to go back to work. So I got up this morning and slowly but surely, I began to get myself back in the groove. My son is always the game changer. I can be on target with my time and boom as soon as I put on his coat, shoes, etc, I start to smell that oh so familiar and pungent smell that he has when he has done his business and now I have to go back and change his diaper before I leave. Would it be wrong though if I sent him to daycare anyway and tell the babysitter that he used it on the way to school..lol Ok I didn't think so, so I just fall in line and change the little stinker. I drop off my little guy and finally I'm on my way to the office.
Now normally I would be visiting schools and conducting class observations among other things but today I stayed in the office. After taking care of business, I had a conversation with my co-workers that originated around the whole drama with Gabrielle Union and her fiance'. not shocking to some, he had a baby while they were on a "time out" in their relationship and afterwards he proposed to her and she accepted. Some people are concerned with the precedence that this action is setting for young women today. We talked about how in some ways women are making things to easy for men to get away with and that we are lowering our standards with men. The conversation shifted and we examined the 3 different generations of women in the room along with the family dynamics and how they changed with the different times in society. I think that in my generation we were taught to do what we were told which at times was opposite from what we saw. It caused confusion due to the contradictions that we saw. As we got older, I think that some people copied some things that we saw instead of heading to the wise words that we heard. As I grow each day and go through my own trials and tribulations, I understand more and more about the struggle to not only say but do what we know it right. It is a struggle... New Year and new attitude. Thankful for wise women that surround me and I am expecting greater in 2014!
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