| Monday, July 03, 2006 |
| Stay-home versus home-stay |
| Did not blog over the weekend. In fact, did not even turn on the laptop over the weekend. Today, I nagged at myself to check emails, do some housekeeping of my email accounts, check out some sites and to blog. Why the nagging feeling to do so today? Today is Monday, and Wil is at work. On Saturdays and Sundays, Wil is my trusty companion. Just napping with him is great. When the week begins, the yearning to connect with the world beyond this four-walls is strong. How do stay-home mothers deal with this in the past? They join clubs and societies perhaps? Or immersed themselves in some Hong Kong (Korean is probably the fad now) TV serial? They remain in their stay-home roles for a long time (some of them, it's the only life they know). For me, this is a temporary stop-by. While I am just appreciating the stay-home time I have with the kid, I know I need to work. For my intellectual, social and emotional as well as financial well-being, stay-home is not the long term option. Even if the work sucks, it provides the much-needed interaction with creatures who form sentences to communicate. With the kid, I try to identify her needs from her cries. Don’t all cries sound the same? A cry with another pitch, tone or rhythm, is still a call for help. Tell me little one, oh what do you need? Labels: motherhood |
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