{"id":79,"date":"2008-06-11T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-06-11T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T04:34:51","slug":"getting-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2008\/06\/11\/getting-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks my second week back at work, and also the passage of my 36th birthday*. The number 36 has been much harder for me to deal with than the mental and emotional challenges of being back at work! I knew I was of &#8220;advanced maternal age&#8221; while I was pregnant, but somehow, being 36 puts me unequivocally in my Late Thirties. Not something I&#8217;m super excited about.<br \/>\nTransitioning back to work has gone relatively smoothly. I was really dreading leaving my little Finn with someone else during the day, and worrying about how he&#8217;d deal with the transition. I&#8217;m sure this is true for all working moms, and it&#8217;s probably harder on the mom than the baby.<br \/>\nThe good news is, both he and I are doing really well with it. Our babysitter Carol (not a Nanny, but closer to a surrogate Granny) is terrific, and she and Finn get along like gangbusters. Plus, I get to see Finn at lunchtime, which is nice for the both of us. And knowing that Finn is in really good hands lets my brain focus on work, and I am glad to be back, having just taken on a new, challenging assignment that will demand a lot of my gray matter.<br \/>\n<i>* Meanwhile Finn turned 100&#8211;days old, that is.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>[PS: Speaking of Carol, here are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/images\/Carol_and_Finn.jpg\">pair<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/images\/Carol_and_Finn-2.jpg\">shots<\/a> of the two of them in action. \ud83d\ude09  &#8211;J.]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks my second week back at work, and also the passage of my 36th birthday*. The number 36 has been much harder for me to deal with than the mental and emotional challenges of being back at work! I knew I was of &#8220;advanced maternal age&#8221; while I was pregnant, but somehow, being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}