Working on: starting a game of Civ in a moment
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Now that Christmas Break approaches, I thought I'd reflect on my first months of working again after becoming a mom. On the whole, it's been great. I get to spend a lot of time with Roman relaxing at home, and also get to talk with adults and other kids, speaking about my favorite subjects!

Now... there are a few sticky parts. I work in the afternoon, and I wish I worked mornings; it's so hard to stop what we're doing to run off to daycare. The paperwork is great though - but I sometimes don't have the motivation when it's only 2 sets of papers to correct - "I can do that tonight/tomorrow/this weekend." And I put it off. It's also hard to switch gears in my head - Roman, school, Roman, dinner, school again.... and if I'm not prepared days ahead of time for lessons, I'm a mess. It's horrible to try to prep for school in the morning, even mentally, when I'm also trying to play.

The worst happened the other day - daycare called to let me know that Roman was uncontrollably crying. My concentration went right out the window - usually I don't think about Roman much at all while I'm teaching, but this changed everything. So I know now that I'm a Mommy first, which is as it should be. I am glad that I'm teaching though. I'm not sure how I would balance more classes; I think a lot less would happen at home!