So much I want to write but certainly no space in my brain to give it space to grow tonight. I'm knackered! A huge week of thinking and presentations and trying to keep the hamster running on the little wheel - both at work and at home. I'm getting there, but geez I'm tired today! …
Tag: return to work
Part of something bigger… #workingmumsunite
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon has struck again!!! If you don't have time to click through to my earlier post about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon here, I've summed it up for you below: Think back to the time when you wanted to buy a new car. You picked out the make and the model and then all of a sudden, everywhere …
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Where do the days go?
It's been a week and a half since I returned to work from maternity leave. Yes, I know! Already! I have to admit though, it's been a busy, frustrating, confusing and exciting return with a whole stack of changes and a tonne of work to be done. At times I've felt as though I'd drowning, …
Admit One: Griefworld
Today my hubby had some bad news. The mum of some of his very close childhood friends passed away in her sleep last night. She was still fairly young, in her mid 60's. It was sometime early afternoon that he managed to get a hold of me, in between meetings, to tell me what had …
Headspins and ticklefests
Well I said that I would have to hit the ground running and I’m pretty sure I ran a marathon today! My head is spinning already and it's only day one! I am bleary eyed, brain dead and definitely knackered but I suspect like any muscle, it's going to take some training to get up …
Feeling all the feelings
Yep, this shit is getting real! All day I've been oscillating between excitement and sadness as I count down the days in this last week. I've been doing a little bit of policy writing over the past three weeks which has been motivating and exciting (well, as much as policy writing can ever be exciting). But …
So much to do, so little time
How is it that I've been on maternity leave for eight months, and now that I'm about to return to work decide that things need to be done! Today is only Monday, but I've been running about like a blue-arsed fly (that, my non-Australian readers is a bit of Aussie slang) and have a raging headache …
Thoughtful leadership
Tonight I was inspired! As in brimming with excitement, can't wait to get back into the thick of things kind of inspired! One of the downsides to maternity leave is that the organisation that you work for moves forward without you and you lose any momentum that you before you left. And whilst situations often change (although in …
3 weeks to go
Today, as I was swapping the number four out for a three on my lightbox, I felt an unfamiliar twinge. I'm still trying to process what it was but I think it was a cross between guilt, sadness and maybe a touch of fear. For a little while, I dismissed it and got back into …
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