Well, it is here. Simon’s last official day of parental leave.
After nearly 7 months of being home and being a full-time family, Simon will be going to work tomorrow morning. I remember when Wilhelmina was born and would try imagine what she would be like when he would go back to work. Would she be stitting? Crawling? Cruising? how big would she be? what would she look like?
Now the day is here and she is more amazing than I could have imagined.
It has been amazing have Simon around the house. He does so much to help with the kids and let me devote time to Wilhelmina and even myself… Wilhelmina is such a Daddy’s girl and loves to be on his back while he is doing things around the house. The minutes she sees the Ergo, she craws to him or calms down if she is upset and it is her favourite place to fall asleep…
As much as I wish Simon could always be home, I am also looking forward to getting back into a daily routine. Giving birth and then having him home has made me feel lazy which is something that I can no longer do when I am back to being to primary caregiver to all four kids. I don’t mind being lazy sometimes, but after a while, it becomes a routine that is hard to get out of and I start feeling crappy and impatient with myself which then reflects on the kids. It is not the person I strive to be, and hopefully, doing more will mean that I will drop off a bit more weight which will also help with my energy and some negative feelings I have been having about myself.
I am not expecting to be 100% back to what I was doing before right away, but being home alone will do some good and going back into the role of primary caregiver will also feel quite nice.
I went and did the grocery shopping yesterday and made sure I had food for the week and a good list of meals that I can make without too much preparation to ease into this first week… soon I plan on getting back into the normal routine of baking bread on a regular basis, doing more baking in general and getting back into a better house keeping routine…
So this long long weekend has come to an end… the house will feel quite empty tomorrow morning when we wake up without Simon in the house…
I feel so thankful that we were able to have such a long time as a full-time family…
