Back to Full Time

I'm back to working full-time again starting in May. As I described earlier on this blog, I cut my work hours to 80% starting in February and I've really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I was only able to keep up the mom and dad combined role for the first half of those three months. As that began to wear on me, I became more stressed out and we shifted a lot of Emily's responsibilities back onto her shoulders. I don't know how single parents do it. My hat's off to all of you out there. I got burned out pretty quickly.

Another stress related to that situation was that I knew I would eventually come back to full-time, so I felt the need to keep up with projects so that I could easily transition back in. The nature of the projects we've been working lately and various circumstances have kept me pretty busy, so I've basically had as much or more to do than normal, but only 32 hours a week to do it in. I've been feeling overwhelmed and have decided that the break was good for me and good for my family, but it's time to get back to the office and get more of my job done.

I'll miss spending so much time with you, Emily. I've enjoyed it. Thanks for helping me to make it fun.