My daughter’s first year…
If I think my daughter learned a lot this first year, I actually learned
more…
She has always been quite an “advanced” kid which made my life a bit of a
challenge.
She started by wanting to feed like a maniac and not wanting to sleep
more than 2 hours straight (for her first 6 months). Which made her quite alert
and learning to roll and even crawl at 5 months old. At 6 months she was sitting
by herself until she got to 8 months and was standing up and started giving her
first steps. It all happened so quickly.
At 9 months I had a kid that was confident to walk and go everywhere she
wanted. This all made me see that I wanted to spend more time with her as if I didn’t
watch her grow up, she would just grow up and disappear from my sight.
As returned to work full time when she was around 7 months old I pretty
much lost a quite a bit of those milestones and when she was 10 months I decide
to quit and find a part-time job to be able to part of her daily little life.
It was not easy to make this decision as I was in my old company for 11
years and really enjoyed the job and my colleagues, which were more like
friends. But that was my main learning curve being a workaholic was not helping
this new job I just signed up for of being a MOM.
Now after a while that I moved jobs I can also see that there are other jobs,
people and companies out there, so not only she opened my eyes onto the amount
of work I was doing but also that you can have a perfect work-life balance. You
just need to be real with yourself and find what you really want.
Those 3 days a week that I work I really focus on my work but those 4
days that I spend with her we play more, have more fun and I feel that my daughter
is much more connected to me.
I learn things from her and she learn from me and
I would not miss those first years for anything in this world.
Some decisions are hard to make but sometimes we need a little tiny cute
hand pushing us to make us see the bigger picture…
A now non-workaholic MOM after 30
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