A better way to spend the day...
Ah the power of the blog! Tell everyone something and the opposite will happen!
Freyja's sickness turned out to be to be mild - she was only sick the once and is absolutely fine now. Of course I had already told my childminder she had vomited, and decided I should probably keep her at home so....
...here I am wracked with guilt for not going to work (I am totally crap at 'pulling sickies' even if it was a genuine reason for not going). Freyja has complained a few times about her tummy hurting but that may well be because I keep asking her, sympathetically, 'How is your tummy feeling?' I need to justify to myself the fact that I have stayed at home.
We went up to Blythe Hill fields and had a play around up there. I bumped into a friend I haven't seen in ages and met a load of people who know Freyja and Theo - they have this whole other social life while I'm at work. Theo was befriended by a 10 year old boy which was all rather lovely until Theo got himself smacked in the face by a swing. We left then and went to collect things in the park to make a card with - leaves, twigs, half eaten apples, that sort of thing....
It saved my day and reminded me that I should never feel guilty about choosing to put my kids before my work.
Freyja's sickness turned out to be to be mild - she was only sick the once and is absolutely fine now. Of course I had already told my childminder she had vomited, and decided I should probably keep her at home so....
...here I am wracked with guilt for not going to work (I am totally crap at 'pulling sickies' even if it was a genuine reason for not going). Freyja has complained a few times about her tummy hurting but that may well be because I keep asking her, sympathetically, 'How is your tummy feeling?' I need to justify to myself the fact that I have stayed at home.
We went up to Blythe Hill fields and had a play around up there. I bumped into a friend I haven't seen in ages and met a load of people who know Freyja and Theo - they have this whole other social life while I'm at work. Theo was befriended by a 10 year old boy which was all rather lovely until Theo got himself smacked in the face by a swing. We left then and went to collect things in the park to make a card with - leaves, twigs, half eaten apples, that sort of thing....
It saved my day and reminded me that I should never feel guilty about choosing to put my kids before my work.
posted by solveig at
10:38 am
1 Comments:
Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever... "feel guilty about choosing to put my kids before my work."
Remember which way round things are in your head really. I only go to work so I can do the things I want to do, support the life I want to have. It's not the other way round. I think we want a better life for our families and sometimes you absolutely have to sacrifice things for them. Short term pain, long term gain - those kind of 90s mad phrases. But on the other hand we always have to remember that if we never see our children there was never any point in the first place.
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