Back to work blues

[hygienemom]

On Tues, Feb8, 2005 I will be going back to work after 1 year maternity leave...(in Canada we get 1 year paid leave). I have all the arrangements made for my baby girl to go to a home daycare and the two older boys are in school (8 and 5 yrs old).
I could use some prayer and words of encouragement as I am feeling low about the whole thing.
This is such a change in life and will miss my baby girl immensely. I am feeling stressed about how busy I will be in the morning to get myself up @ 5am, get myself ready then get the kids ready for school/daycare. DH leaves for work @ 6:30am so not able to help much. I have to be out the door @ 7 for work @ 7:35am. I have to start a new job (dental hygienist) as the old job didn't have enough hours for me. That in itself is stressful.
I know that it will all work itself out and once we are all in a routine it will flow...but i'm feeling stressed to the max!!
Help!!

 

[Addicted2~Jesus]

Sorry to hear ya feelin so down, you've got our prayers no doubt. I really hadn't got a whole heckuva lot of advice an I'm sorry for that also. If'n it were up to me, any one parent who wanted to stay home an tend to their faimly would, sadly enough in this world it's simply become so dern hard to go from 2 to 1 incomes. I don't spose ya'll could, but it might be sumthin to think bout an absouletly pray bout, is you stayin on home like ya have been. I realize it's a bit late in th game to think or rethink goin back to work, but one thin you can always be sure of, if it's God's will then it'll defiently work out.

 

[Leanna]

I'm sorry, that is difficult. About a month ago I tried to get a part time job to help with our fianances. (my son is 5 months old) I actually got the job and was going to start the next day. I had such anxiety over not being around my son much I couldn't sleep. I just couldn't do it. My husband said I shouldn't take the job and I should stay home. We both feel that being a stay-at-home mom is an important job. If you don't want to go back to work (I realize you already have), maybe you could get used to living on only one income? There are lots of ways to do it.