This blog is a project. A project to help me blog through my some of my issues with first-time motherhood. Issue #1: To continue in my current career as a writer and editor or to embark on a different sort of career as a stay-at-home mom to my now eight-month old son?
It's a question almost every mother has faced, probably at several times during her life, but few of the mothers I know ever talk about how they reached their decisions. And how I wish I had their counsel now.
As for me, I've given myself a month to decide. I'll air out all of the factors that go into my decision here, sort of taking my daily temperature on the matter (i.e. do I still want to quit my job on days when the work goes well, or just on the days when I've been up all night with a teething baby and I leak breast milk all over my new blouse and my editor acts like an ass?). Instead of talk therapy, think blog therapy. Perhaps I'll get reader feedback, more likely I won't. But I'm a writer, and I've found that the only way I work through ideas is to write about them. So, here goes.
... oh, and when the month is over? I'll probably keep blogging. I'm sure there will be many other issues that crop up along the path of motherhood, fraught as it is with so many tangles and snares, and I'll need the space to work them out. If you're dogged by the same intractable questions, I invite you to share this space with me, and maybe these decisions needn't be so hard. Nor so lonely.
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