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obvious statement but
i really really really don't want to go back to work on Sunday i did start to think that i will like it because i enjoy my job and am looking forward to adult company etc but now that it is only 3 days away i really don't want to leave Erin i feel really tearful about it and guilty and sad and annoyed and angry and fed up 
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it is normal to feel like that. But you probably will enjoy it after a little while and you realise she is ok without you for a while.
I went back to work last week and completely felt like that. But 2 weeks on and I am glad to be back...certainly glad when I got paid normal wages yesterday!
Amanda
Erin will be grand & you will too after a while & just think of the money! Good luck hun xx
Hope they give you good support on Sunday and our little ones will be ok.
Mary xx
Best wishes Mary, you are a star doing the job you do x
Good luck for tomorrow Mary you'll be fine xxx
Mary xx
I not returning to work for lots of reasons...(infact have not done paid work for about 11 years...)
However, with my first I returned full time. I was 21 and OH was 24 and we needed the money. He worked in Holland and Germany and came home every 6 weeks or so for 10 days. I had to work full time,drop off and pick up Lauren and then see to her at home alone and all weekend. I did have my mum who was a great help. When I had Chris 2 years later I went back job share for 2 and half days.
I still remember leaving lauren at the nursery that first morning. I was so upset. I rang them about 5 times and if I heard a cry I was like..is that Lauren.... they assured me it was not. After the first week I was back in swing of it and quite liked the reason to get up, get dressed and have a structure to my day. Wish I could have afforded part time though.
Chris was such a sickly baby but Andrew was going thro Chemeo when I had him so we had no money coming in as Andrew was self emp. I went back 2 and half days and it was tough as i was caring for 2 little ones and andrew. Luckily this time a friend who was going through a messy split up from father of her child looked after kids for me for a bit of pocket money.
Andrew, got better and went back to working away. Oh joy!!!! Joy, he was better but back to me looking after them and working. Chris was in and out of hosp. Quite often PICU due to asthma attacks that were called brittle asthma as they came from nowhere. I took 6 months unpaid compassionate leave and was due to go back one Monday morning. i rang them from PICU as Chris was having a lumbar thingy to test why he was so ill (they thought meningitis but it wasnt) and told them I had to hand in notice. Luckily OH was earning good money by this time in Italy and we could do without my salary.
I still to this day miss work. I miss the structure it gives you, the chats with the other staff, the pay packet at the end of the day. Some say lady of leisure...but I know \I would rather work!!!! i love my kids but sometimes at home with 5 kids (3 of them little) I feel like I am slowly dying! Other days I love it.
BTW Chris and Andrew both over their ailments now!!!!
D xx
good luck all you ladies off to work.....
Mary, how did it go??
J x
Had a chat with the senior sister in the corridor about how are you etc.? As I walked away she said consider that your back to work appraisal. Lovely, nobody said to me these are the changes that have happened in the last 8 months. Just straight back in the numbers and muddled through
I think I will find Wednesday harder as I will be at work from 07.15-21.00hrs and Isabelle will be at childminders for first time. I just wanted to pick Isabelle up and give her a cuddle and kiss when I got in but she was fast asleep so had to wait until this morning. She has woken up so happy and exited this morning. I think she has been eating blue smarties in her sleep, lol
Mary xx