Parental leave is over. My life returns to normal. Back to work I go tomorrow. Hope I remember how it all goes.
Everyone has been asking if I was going to do some epic finale post to wrap it all up? Well of course I am. But not yet. I want to let it sink in. I want to reflect on what the last six months were to me. I want to talk to grown ups again.
So, yes, I will do a concluding post at some point, but for now you will have to wait.
With all the sickness running through our house, my last few days have flown by. I have been too busy caring for the baby and running back and forth to daycare to notice it all slipping away.
It was a good run. How often do you get six months away from work that does not involve being fired or retirement?
I also want to experience what it is like to return to the office before commenting on the whole thing.
What will it be like? Will I have a new perspective of working? We shall see.
Today was a pretty boring last day. No big celebrations. No tattoos to mark the occasion. Just a normal day where I got to cook dinner and hang out with my family.
In the coming days as I ride home in the dark, it will be the simple times I will miss the most.
It will be an adjustment for all of us. It will probably take a few weeks to fall into a new routine. We have once again successfully brought a kid to the age of one and off to daycare. Not bad, not bad.
The one important thing I did today was vote. Nova Scotia went to the polls today. Soon we will see who will be the next Premier of the province.
No photos today, I was not in the mood. There was too much sadness in my head. Bummed that our baby boy is still sick. Sad that my parental leave is over. Sad that I am returning to the normal grind with everyone else.
Don’t worry, it will pass. Stay tuned for more as I return to the work force and hopefully remember how to do my job.
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Good luck on the transition back. I know I found it hard.
very good advice, so far I have not been applying it in my web, I try to time this
I think it’s important to take the time before you know how you feel. You’ll only know once your back at work and feelings do or do not come to you. I’m right in the throws of that myself, having become the working parent in our house while Matt stays home with Rowan. Only now that I’m settled in my job, a month later, am I even able to start feeling the loss and the exciting bits of being back at work. Bittersweet to the core!