Part-Time Working Mother

When we returned from a four week holiday in Malaysia, I assumed I had used up all my annual leave for the year. Until a few weeks ago, my manager said I still had about 5 days of annual leave which I need to clear up before the bank's year end (which is 30 September). 

Therefore, for the month of September, I took every Friday off. And last week, being the final week in September, I had Thursday and Friday off. It was awesome!!! Now I know what it feels like being a part-time working mother! Working full-time while juggling a two year old can be quite exhausting!

As an added bonus, I squeezed in Volunteer Day today, so I only return to work tomorrow. I chose to volunteer at the Christian Blind Mission, writing Christmas cards for their donors. I love writing Christmas cards! My scheduled time was 10am until 3pm. I dropped Little Bambi off to creche at about 9.30am before I started at CBM. When I was done at 3pm, I stopped by at Coles and the chemist, and then picked her up by 4pm. We got home, ate ice cream and then walked the dog together. Oh yes, and not forgetting the fact that I made it to the gym at 6.05am this morning for a session of RPM Hi-Performance!

Usually Little Bambi is at creche from 7am until 5.30pm - which is such a longgggg day. We get home by 5.45pm and there's hardly any time to do anything apart from taking a shower and getting ready for dinner. 

At dinner today, I told Grumpy that the '10am-3pm' time really suits us, because at least Little Bambi is not at creche for too long a day, and we have more time to do fun things like eat ice cream! 

He looked at me and said "So do you want to do volunteer work everyday????"

Old Episodes of Lost

It has been nearly three months since my last post.

The reason for my lack of post is because Grumpy has decided to watch old episodes of Lost again, and while he roped me in to watching it with him, I have lost access to my Mac Book Pro at night. Each night after Little Bambi falls asleep, we hide in our bedroom on a cold winter's night, two mugs of hot green tea in hand and heaps of chocolate and junk food to share.. while watching a bunch of people run around an island fighting for survival.

Little Bambi has been doing really well. She has been in really good form this time round, compared to last year. She is getting on very well with her friends in childcare, always looking forward to spend the day with them. She is cheeky, as always.

My birthday this year, 32 years old.. Yikes.. it was extremely low key, which I did not mind at all. I told no one at my new work about my birthday. But I did take the day off. 

Work has been good as well. I am so very blessed that I landed myself in a good working environment, with nice and friendly people. The team is quite professional too, although it is mainly male dominated. I am really enjoying my role as well, it is a huge learning curve for me, so lots to take in.. and while I should really be reading up on financial news at night, instead I am watching an old TV show from ten years ago (ie Lost)! However, after going through two redundancies, a dozen restructures and the usual office politics in financial services, I know one can never be too confident or comfortable in a role.

I have been trying to improve my fitness level as well. I currently join my workmates at boot camp during our lunch breaks on Tuesday. And on top of that, I have been taking RPM classes at the gym. I bought my first cycling shorts yesterday, and am thinking of getting proper cycling shoes too. 

I have to run now, but looking forward to blog more in the coming weeks.