Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Well I'll tell you - shoes. For any family managing on one salary (or even two), there isn't usually any budgetary leeway for frivolous purchases like shoes.  Which I can now afford to buy.  But seriously, what has going back to work been like? I was at home for about 2 1/2 years, so now the entire family has to make the adjustment back to work with me. Sticking to the schedule, mapping out school holidays weeks in advance, planning the rotation of parent duty, ensuring I have remote access so I can work from home, transition to full-time daycare and after-school care, etc. Here is my experience. Exhaustion Yes.  No doubt about it.  The share pace of having a full morning (getting kids out of the house) and then having to focus on work and then come back to the kids and get ready for the next day.  Exhausting.  Mentally and physically. No energy or reserves for friends, books or blogs.  Just put the TV on please. Insomnia Surprise...

Here's what I've found: The pitch .  "Have you always been in the top 5% of your class?"  Ok, so I saw this on one company's job/career site.  Now this just rubbed me the wrong way.  I can't begin to articulate the flood of feeling that I got just reading it...and now writing it.. The question.   "If you could meet some famous person from history, who would it be and why?"  Is this a trick question or an essay submission for a test?  I found it hard to figure out the link between my choice and my abilities related to the job, so perhaps I am not so clever as they are.  I guess I need to move on. Polygraph test. Are you kidding me??  " TS/SCI/ Full Scope Lifestyle Polygraph (Only for Cleared Positions)"  Yeah, scratch that one off the list. Are you a customer ?  Ok, so this was on the career site of one telecom company.  So, I'm in fact not a customer.  Should I just stop there?  Maybe if you hire m...

That was the first question that friends asked when I told them I was going back to work. The simple answer is that we would have to make choices that we are not prepared to, in order for me to stay at home. And what choices would those be? Well, it really boils down to just one - private school for Lucas. If we put Lucas back into public school (or homeschool), I can continue to stay at home.  So, even if I could see myself surviving 1 year of homeschooling Lucas, what about the following year and the year after that?  And what about Liam?  Good grief - there is only so much stress I can handle.  Besides, I can imagine that after homeschooling, public school will become less and less appealing in terms of challenge.  So, homeschooling would be indefinite and I've already said enough on public school. Why did I stay home in the first place? When we first made to decision for me to stay home, it was borne of necessity - Liam was getting s...