Anyone giving up work

[malinki]

Hi, is anyone on the list giving up work to be able to do school runs every day. Been working all my life and after this weekend, DH and I have decided for me to pack it all in. I am not been pressured, DH only mentioned it a couple of weeks ago and lots have happened since then, ttc #2. My daughter starts school in September and it doesn't have a breakfast club/time out club/out of school club. My parents live on the east coast, 75 miles away and my pil live in south yorkshire about 25 miles away, been thinking of nothing else but doing the gardening, making proper dinners and packed lunches and am quite excited. I have a review at work on 14/07/04 and intend to hand in my notice then, giving them 6 weeks notice (only out of the goodness of my heart), its when the novelty wears off that I'm bothered about it. I intend to have a month off and then apply to schools to do vol work in an admin/clerical field with the intention to get a paid part-time job later in the year. How does everyone else cope. My daughter will be 4 in August.

I had planned to give up work in a years time for this reason, but since i'm pregnant again its all come round a year early, from the end of this term i'll be a stay at home mum of 3 under fours - don't think i'm going to have much trouble filling my time!

Malinka, I also thought about giving up work totally 4 this reason, but my friend next door and I share the school runs, I do 2, she does 2 and her husband does one every week.

It means that we both get a little adult co. and some money. Is there anybody in your area that you could possibly do this with?

I'm also thinking about doing this. He's been easy while I've been on maternity leave but I have to go back in November and I'm not sure I want to. The school is to far from my mums for her to pick ds1 up. If work allow me to go back 2 days then I will do, if not then I think I'll have to find something else I can do from home. One of those days I'll ask dh's dad to pick ds1 up and the other I'll ask my dad to bring him home or let him stay behind with him as he works there.

Secretly I'm hoping I don't have to go back for more than a couple of weeks before dh realises it's to stressful me not being around for the kids. I missed out on lots of time with ds1 because of severe post natal depression and I don't want to miss and thing with ds2.

The other problem which they don't tell you about is my daughter will have, get a load of this, 13 weeks holiday pa, 5 teacher training days, then you have to compensate for the boiler breaking down in winter, used to happen to me when I was at school, I would turn up and be turned away, my parents used to ring school in winter to make sure the boiler was the problem and not truancy. What a life, actually I'm quite excited about this, I see it as an adventure. There isn't anyone in the area to share the school runs, DH works from 08.00 - 17.30 hrs then comes home and starts again, but because he is in the building game (contracts manager), his work takes him all over the UK, even though he comes home to me at night.. I told dh that I would valet his car every week and creosote the fence before winter, plus do the housework and watch TRISHA!!!!! (i know thats sad)

DS has an April birthday and would do the first 2 terms as mornings only which is what swung it for me - don't really want to have someone else pick him up at lunch time for that amount of time.