Back to work - 5/19/08

Grams and Pops came back to town this weekend, with Grams staying the week to help Sarah around the house. This means I have to go back to work after missing 7 full work days. Looking forward to it like a hole in the head, and I genuinely enjoy my job, at least a fair amount of the time. Too bad I have to go to work to provide for my family and all, since staying home and spending time with them doesn’t pay all that well. It certainly should, I’d argue that is more trying than most jobs, and I know several dads who will back me up on that statement. Also unfortunate we don’t live somewhere in Europe where even the fathers get something like 3 months paternity leave. No way any mom is fully prepared to take on caring for children, much less three 3 years old and younger a mere week or two after childbirth. Good thing that Puritan work ethic has stuck around in this country so well…or something like that.