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Thank you for starting this thread. I have a lot of anxiety about how I am going to balance everything, and I really hope my management is receptive to my request to work a 4-day week for 6-7 months after my maternity leave.
As much as I get tired of the grind -- and especially of commuting! -- I think I would go crazy spending all day, every day with a baby no matter how much I love my child. And anyway, I currently earn about 60% of our household income, and we have a mortgage. So staying at home is not really a feasible option! Thank you, NYC area, for being so outrageously expensive.
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@plantains: I suppose its not that I want to avoid increasing pressure and expectations. But I do like making my DH dinner every night and I would like to eat dinner with my future LOs. Soooo..... big law sometimes doesn't accomodate that. Neither does "small law" or "medium law", but at least its more accomodating in general.
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@MrsMcD: Yes, eating dinner as a family is such a big deal and is the thing that makes the day so hectic sometimes but so worthwhile. I totally get what you mean.
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@plantains: As a family, we just make dinners for the week on Sunday and then we don't have to cook during the week. And in a pinch we can always unfreeze a lasagne that we've made or another freezer meal. It just takes a little planning and sacrifice of weekend time.
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@Mrs. Jacks: I need to be so much better about this and really use my slow cooker more. I am trying to be a lot more organise about meal planning and grocery shopping, things would be a lot smoother that way. Thank goodness for Jamie Oliver and his 20 minute meals.
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