One Friday Left

Sleeping...yay!

Oh my I only have one Friday left being at home with my little terror. Only a couple of months ago I had tears at the thought of it, I couldn't bare it but the last few weeks have been very testing and it's made me wonder if going back to work will be a god send after all.

It will be nice to get dressed up and not get messed up by grubby hands for once and have a little freedom to be me again. I also need a break from saying no Ollie, don't do that, leave it alone...no...no...no Ollie.

Kidsworld

In an ideal world I would prefer part time so I have the best of both worlds as I do like to be able to go out when I like and take the little man to see and do things especially now he's heading for one he is interested in the world around him.

Yesterday we went to kidsworld which he loved. It was quite an eye opener for me as most of the kids there seemed to be with childminders but they were chatting and drinking coffee while the kids got on with it. No wonder they pestered me which was alittle annoying when I wanted to be with my child with "whats your name", "can you push me", "can you...." , uh leave me alone. It just made me think do we really pay silly amounts on childcare for the carers to just sit there nattering. I really do think Mummy and daddy really are best, so whatever the future holds for us I would like to avoid childcare as much as possible and work it between myself and my husband. 


As I start back at work my hubby leaves his work (redundancy) so he will be looking after Ollie the explorer until he finds himself another job which I reckon by the first or second day at home he will be longing to escape because I have a feeling he may just pull the rest of his hair out.

Why does childcare cost so much?

Great debate on "Why does childcare cost so much?" on the Wright Stuff this morning. This really hits home as we are just about to visit the world of childcare and are wondering how they hell will we pay for it.
If our little man goes to a full time childminder which will be 50 hours a week it will cost us £700 a month which is nearly the same as our monthly mortgage payment.
I am due back to work full time in April but my husband is being made redundant at the end of March, he is looking for jobs and going for interviews but we are wondering if we will be better off him staying at home for a little while with our son. We are also concerned that if we both work full time neither of us will see our son much if I get home by 6pm and a current job my husbsnd is waiting for a reply would mean he would get home 7.30-8pm. Why oh why would we want to spend all that time away from him.

It's just awful, we waited until our thirties to have children but we are definatly not better off and not sure we ever would have been in a better financial state especially after taking on a house with high monthly payments and we don't even like the house anymore. Ideally I would like to continue to be at home but it doesn't seem possible now with my husbands redundancy. My employer refused any sort of flexi-time before we knew anything about the redundancy which is another debate which has been touched on in the Mother's Work Meme!.

Why does life have to be so difficult and expensive? If anyone has the answer please let me know.

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