Being Back at Work

Well, it's been my first week back at work and as I feared

1. I miss my baby like crazy
2. work is just as super busy as I remembered it
3. all I have the time or energy for (or the inclination to spend that time and energy on) is work and baby; I was really hoping to continue getting stuff done at a rate resembling my semi-motivated days during my maternity leave.

And alas, I do not have the kind of job where I could telecommute.

On the topic of working moms, I've been especially noticing over this past year that there is this portrayal in movies etc., that moms work because they love their jobs, and that stay at home moms hate and ridicule working moms.  I refuse to believe that I'm the only woman who works because I love having food on the table and a roof over our heads, in which case, why should some other woman hate me because her husband earns more than I do?  I am generally a big fan of movies and TV shows as a form of entertainment, and a good sport when it comes to my suspension of disbelief, but that whole dynamic is something which I am becoming unwilling to simply skate past in order to just enjoy the show.  There's an ever rising number of two working parent households, society needs to stop acting like working moms are an aberration.  Hopefully the parents of my daughter's peers will not be the jerks that the entertainment industry portrays their predecessors as, especially since so many must have had working mothers themselves.