{"id":2774,"date":"2011-05-09T21:07:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T20:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2011-05-09T21:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T20:07:38","slug":"today_preparing_to_hand_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/today_preparing_to_hand_over\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: preparing to hand over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis is my last week of maternity leave &ndash; from next Monday I will be working and Eric will be at home taking care of the kids. That first week I will only be working half-time, and then ramp it up when we see that this works out OK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&rsquo;ve got quite mixed feelings about going back to work. On the one hand, I do look forward to using my brain for something again, and I am getting a bit tired of spending all my days taking care of a (frankly) ungrateful baby. On the other hand, I feel like I did the hard part and now I hand over just as the weather gets nice, and Adrian has learned to nap well, and no longer needs to nurse every hour. But on the third hand, I do get the best of both worlds, too, since I&rsquo;ll be coming home shortly after lunch (and late afternoon even when I&rsquo;m back to my usual 80% workload) which still leaves time for enjoying both the kids and sunshine in the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my last week of maternity leave &ndash; from next Monday I will be working and Eric will be at home taking care of the kids. That first week I will only be working half-time, and then ramp it up when we see that this works out OK. I&rsquo;ve got quite mixed feelings about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}