Hey North DD started on Monday. I am stunned by the amount of work she is doing - it is a 6 day week with early starts and late finishes.
I know a few people with long covid now... I would not wish it on my worst enemy. Previously physically & mentally active people reduced to a shell of themselves.
Love just think of it as any other hospital. DH was in a psychiatric unit for a bit and once I had framed it as being hospital to get better it was so much easier to cope with it. It also helped being really open about it - the pressure of concealing it caused more issues and stress.
Welcome peanut lovely to have you here. I found the 2nd not so financially disastrous as the first - I knew what I needed and what was a waste of money. We had a long enough gap to not have both in nursery at the same time which was a lucky break. The other lucky break was Working Tax Credits were a really new thing when our first was born ( we had a single digit reference number) and a lot more generous than now. On maternity I was £12 a month better off than working. I kept asking them if they had calculated it correctly.
em mine always manage to leave streaks along the sides and I have to pay them.
I am tired after my walk - although b/c it was snowing in flurries we had the hills to ourselves. We walked in the opposite direction to the cafe so it was a NSD.