My maternity leave TO DO list (the optimistic version) went something like this:
- reorganise book collection
- sort and put wedding photos into an album and some others into frames
- get vege and rose garden sorted
- unpack boxes from moving (almost 3 years ago)
- become a proficient baker/sewer/knitter/homemaker
It should have looked more like this:- have baby
- sleep
- ignore piles of washing and dirty household
- feed baby
- sleep
- sleep
Needless to say, I achieved NONE of the tasks on my original and very optimistic maternity leave TO DO list. And only achieved ONE thing on the REAL TO DO list. ("Have baby" - duh!)
I guess everything else will have to wait until I go on maternity leave again.
NOT!!!!
How's the first week back gone? We should catch up for lunch :) xx
ReplyDeleteMine included 'Research new career directions, so that I can launch Career 2.0 - refreshed, enthused, more focused and more employable - once I'm back in work mode' and 'Explore idea of writing some kids' literature'. What was I THINKing??!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how much and how little you can get done in a year! I got nowhere near doing any of the things on my maternity list. Yet sometimes when I look back on it, I am amazed at how much energy and time I did put into somethings. Nowdays my expectations are a lower and my focus on much smaller achievements.
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