over just over two years.
We’ve come a long way together. You’ve been here for pretty much all of Small’s life, a sizeable proportion of Big’s.
I’d already decided to home educate (let you in to a secret, decided long before I had children 😉 ) before I started the blog, so we haven’t had agonies about educational choices. But I used to have a going out to work paying job, and that’s been a bit of a change. For the better? Sometimes I’m not altogether sure. I’m not the most maternal of ppl, although Small has taught me quite a bit more than I learnt first time round, given that my reaction to the small screamy creature was to give her to child care and belt myself back in to work.
But I’m having to re-evaluate myself. I’ve never been out of work work for this long before, and I think I’d always judged my self worth by the jobs I did. I’m finding it hard to work out who I am without a job, which is a sad reflection on my own education and upbringing I think. A mistake I’ll try not to repeat (variety being the spice of life and all that 😉 ) with my own children.
But another of the mistakes I’ve been making recently is depriving myself of sleep by sitting up til all hours pratting around on the computer. Not going to do that one tonight. I may return to this musing later. 🙂
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9 responses to “1000 posts”
Many thousandth post Congratulations. I have enjoyed and valued the window those 1000 posts have been into your life and who you are, so thank you 🙂
(((Jax))) Happy 1000 posts! Hope you had a good long sleep. Remember you are still in full time employment (just not very well paid…) and looking at how Big and Small are coming along you deserve a pay rise 😉
Ditto to the non maternal stuff, ditto to the longest ever been out of work, ditto to the self worth attached to employment and ditto to the self discovery journey.
Thanks for sharing your days and thanks for sharing mine too.
And I think I might well be with you on your less shouting, less computer time plan too 😉
Congrats on a 1000 posts!
The paid work you do doesn’t count for diddly squat in the greater scheme of things. Just look at your family and those that love you to find your self-worth. I think you will find it is pretty high 🙂
wow – a thousand posts! Must remember to do something similar for my 500th,. I’m at 497 right now. You must talk way more than me since I’ve been blogging longer than you!!
Congrats anyway!
Umm, no idea how many there are on mine. But WOW! Well Done!
I’m off to put children to bed in a bit – will back around 8ish. Then it’s a dilemma – Star Trek or Aliens?
i’m being held in moderation – which is a not often a term I find used about me 😉
I do know what you mean about measuring your worth by your paid job, but do hope you can also get to a place where you also value yourself as a lovely person and a great mum doing one of the most difficult jobs in the world – raising children.
Congrats!!! Happy 1000th post. That’s quite an achievement 🙂