9 to 5

This week I joined the ranks of the working mothers. I can't really complain though, Matthew and I have decided to forgo wealth and the security it brings and have me only work two days a week. Thus allowing me to create a perfect life-work balance (a la all the pamphlets lying around my workplace). It's actually been quite fun to be back. I've liked using different parts of my brain again, and engaging other adults in conversations that don't all centre around the whims and follies of a twelve month old. And I was amazed about how much of the minute little details I remembered, down to all the codes to log into the various computer programs. It's been nice two days.

That being said it's been hard too. The Bean got sick the Friday before I went back. And has been much more clingy than usual because of it. I thought she was on the mend, but after being all sweetness and light with my mother all day today, she became listless and feverish within minutes of me returning home. Some tylenol and cuddling seem to have turned it around, but I hate that she's sick at all.

It's been hard leaving her while she's ill and think it would have been hard to leave her even if she was the picture of health. But I know I'm incredibly lucky. I'm lucky I have family and friends nearby who are able to watch her when I work, so I don't have to pay for daycare. I'm lucky I live in a country that recognizes the importance of parental leave (one year!). And I'm lucky I have a job that is willing to work with my schedule and my demands. All in all this week has gone really well.

In other news I made a really great pizza tonight, using a quick, no rise pizza dough. I used home made pesto for the sauce and put on artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, kalamata olives and sundried tomatoes. I also threw a cup of tofu in the food processor with a tablespoon of nutritional yeast and some salt for our cheeze topping. It was perfect if I do say so myself. I may have to reinstate pizza Fridays in the household. Something I think Matthew may go for.

I'm knitting the dress that will not end right now. I thought I would love a simple stockinette stitch body after making a lacy number last summer. BUT I am soooo bored of knitting so many stitches around and around and around with no variation. Ihave been making progress if only because I need to show something every week at my mommy knitting meetup, but I feel like it's going so so slowly. It doesn't help that it's on small needles. However I made a resolution that I can't start anything new until this project is finished. So finish it I will. There's a tea cozy pattern I have my eye on, so that's my motivation to get the dress of the needles and on to the Bean.