I am unemployed. It is by choice and not a result of this recession or economic downturn or whatever we are in right now. I haven't been unemployed since I went away to school in the fall of 1994. This feels much different than that. Today felt kind of like I was playing hooky again. Since I'm not that far removed from maternity leave and I took a week of vacation at the beginning of the month, it didn't feel very foreign to me. What feels uncomfortable about this is not knowing the timeline. When I started maternity leave I knew that I was going back to work in 12 weeks. When I was unemployed when I started college I knew that even if I didn't get a job during the school year I would have one once classes were out for the summer. But right now my job is to take care of my family - to be a mom and a wife, or maybe to be a wife and a mom.
And so Day 1 was uneventful and there was no ceremony to it. I made a menu for the week's meals and a grocery list. I walked the dog. I paid bills. I went grocery shopping. I went to the bank. I made dinner. And in the meantime I changed a few diapers, and fed Foster a few times. We took Caleb to tennis, we all had dinner, Caleb did his homework and now the boys are all headed to bed. And I am content.
Tomorrow I hope to begin some cookie posts and cookie pictures!
