tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919834717469715260.post6885744822857725914..comments2023-08-24T07:52:54.016-05:00Comments on Mom's New Stage: Labor Day BluesKeeshahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861445436771770144noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1919834717469715260.post-26620785104086983182011-09-12T01:00:19.430-05:002011-09-12T01:00:19.430-05:00i love your blog! even though in CA school starts ...i love your blog! even though in CA school starts before labor day (?!), the end of summer is as traumatic as its beginning. the routines change and the kids get cranky, not knowing what's coming next and what to expect and it sucks! then in august (for me) it's back to normal, up and at 'em at an ungodly hour, preparing healthy meals and giving admonitory lectures about appropriate school behavior. <br /><br />this year J started middle school and i'm back to two drop-offs in the morning and i'm not loving it at all. Z's school starts at 7.50 and J's at 9, so we have an hour to kill in between, which means i am by definition, *always* late to work. i don't know who came up with the idea of a 9.00 school start, but s/he will owe me a ton of money in lost revenue after 3 years of this nonsense.<br /><br />you're right that something has to give when juggling career and family, and how could it not be career? you're not being half-ass, you're not a fraud (that's my nomenclature for the feeling you describe) -- you have priorities that sometimes conflict and you make choices about how to resolve those conflicts in the most humane way possible. in a way, it's a structural inequity that those of us who choose to have families have to make these faustian bargains, but since we weren't born in france i guess we have to make do. i'm hopeful that it will all work out in the end, but i'm not sure, and that troubles me sometimes. ugh!pdxprofessorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367151253197008744noreply@blogger.com