As it turns out, I will have taken 14 weeks for my maternity leave, not the 12 I had initially scheduled. I was due to return 3 days a week this week, but with Labor Day being Monday, I pushed it back a week so that I’d start on a full week. Then it looked like the hubs was going to be out of town next week, so I pushed it back a second week, and when his trip canceled, things were already in place for me to start work in two weeks.

I haven’t not worked for this long since law school — if you can call going to law school not working! Outside of that, I have worked to some degree since my first job in high school. Good God. I have been working for twenty years!!

Point is, I have enjoyed having the time to myself and to have gotten Sun on a schedule (she has consistently slept at least six hours a night for the last three nights!). There is one thing I noticed I particularly miss about not working: holiday time! Sounds crazy, huh? But it’s true.

In an office job, holidays are so welcome. But yesterday, it wasn’t Labor Day to me, it was just Monday. Being home every day, I have started to lose track of days — they all feel the same. Fridays no longer have any excitement about them. The weekend days feel just like weekdays. And not in a everyday-is-Saturday but in an everyday-is-Wednesday — humdrum and regular.

So though there are many things I will miss when I am back in the office, the shared experience of holidays is something I look forward to. Leave it to me to find that I miss work because I miss the holidays!