Remember the first time I was on maternity leave? I COULD NOT WAIT to get back to work. I don’t know what it was, the lack of a plan, the fear of being even a temporary stay-at-home mom, who knows. But I was better the second time around — I paced myself, gave myself projects and felt a lot more productive during that leave. So of course, this third time, plus it being the last time (seriously, the last time) — oh Lord, I don’t want to go back.
Tag Archives: Maternity Leave
Can I call in sick on maternity leave?
There is nothing worse than having a cold or flu while pregnant or nursing. You can’t take any medication because it will pass on to the baby, if pregnant, or will dry up your milk, if nursing.
Now add insult to injury and make it a cold during summer. Aw, crap. And I live in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, the sweaty underboob of region — nice most of the year, but uncomfortably sweaty during the summer. I was able to do one night without the fan, thinking it was exacerbating my sore throat/congestion, but screw that. I turned it on the next night, alongside the humidifier.
This is totally not how I wanted to spend one of my last three weeks of maternity leave.
One more week of maternity leave
In a way, it seemed like it would never get here, but yes. My last week of maternity leave is upon me. I have mixed feelings, of course, but not in the way you might thing. Maybe I’m just not like other women, but I did not spend my maternity leave cuddling with my baby boy the whole time. He is definitely cuddly, though — he is chubbier than Mikey was at this point, with tree trunk legs and super chub cheeks.
Wedding Decorator redesigned!
It took me most of December, but I finally brought Wedding Decorator into the new decade. I hadn’t redesigned Wedding Decorator since 2008. I think in between 2008 and now, I may have tweaked the header a little, but that doesn’t do much. I’d planned to redesign Wedding Decorator sometime this year, but when it became apparent that, yes, I would definitely be having a baby, the timing was perfect — I’d use some time during my maternity leave to do the redesign.