Who Am I?
I Am A Mom. A Wife. A Sister. A Daughter, A Friend, A Work In Progress. I won't go way back, but perhaps some posts will reflect on the past. The titles I respond to the most these days are listed above. I have a beautiful daughter a wonderful husband, yadada. But lately perhaps I have lost who I am, or maybe I never knew. I am a stay at home mom, and I love it. It isn't as common here in Canada, since we are very luky to get 1 year partial paid maternity leave (as long as you have worked the designated number of hours and have been contributing to your taxes) and many jobs will even "top" you up so you get the majority of your pay during that period. There is the debate of what you get paid and what day care costs here these days, and that was certainly a factor, but living off of one salary is damn hard so many do chose to go back even if in the end they are only actually bringing home a faction of what they used to. I actually knew this was something I wanted t...