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By: American Family » the winds of change…

American Family » the winds of change… — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:03:26 +0000

[...] Despite the general contentment, something has still been missing. I have made no secret about my need for something interesting to look forward too. I had a some potentially exciting prospects: Earlier in the year, there was a teeny, tiny chance that we could get sent to China for Mr. A’s job which led to a flurry of hoping and research. Then, when that fell through, Mr. A and I decided that we wanted to go take a year off and live in China anyway** which led to a lot of excitement and planning. At best these plans were an attempt to distract us from our fears and to buy us some space to figure out what we really want to do. [...]

By: Benignneglect

Benignneglect — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:53:49 +0000

Hey,
what you describe always kept me from being a full-time mom… I made it in between other things a few month as a full-time, but then I always slit back into another job. And I need a job to stay sane.
Thinking about what I know of you background, you probably would be able to find a part-time/volunteer. But there is one problem with that… it sucks to work for free! I mean we train for our jobs, amass all these skills and then we are supposed to work for free?? I guess that’s why all “professional” moms that hang around the schools all the time are so frustrated!
Anyway, what I want to say, is that I totally understand you…but there are alternatives out there, even if it might take you some time to work it out (took me about 5 years!)

By: Kohana

Kohana — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:16:32 +0000

Ha! I just wrote about the same thing. The glorious highs and the low low lows of being a stay at homer…what a ride.