Now that Sarah and I are back from our vacation in California we are ready to face the next big hurdle in our lives. After three months of maternity leave, on Monday, Sarah returns to work. While this was a known event it crept-up on us suddenly and now we are scrambling to figure out how to not become totally dysfunctional while having both of us work with an infant needing our constant care and feeding. The initial plan is to have me stay home on Monday, Sarah to stay home on Tuesday, for me to take Madeline to my mother’s on Wednesday, and take Madeline to Sarah’s mother in Bedford on Thursday. This leaves the conundrum of what to do on Fridays. But that isn’t a problem until it happens.

The return to work is taking a toll on both of us. I have to adjust to getting back into a rhythm for my work and it is tough with a mix of programming, marketing, management, sales, etc. to find the right priorities to get everything done. Sarah was nearly crying over not having gotten the laundry finished and put away last night along with the apparently relentless cancerous growth of clutter in our apartment. I think everyone suffers from a general haze in January trying to figure out what they are really supposed to be doing this year. I intend to spend more time selling and less time developing or marketing but that may be a tricky proposition. I have been getting plenty of calls from people offering director of product management jobs but I have been turning them down because the arrangements at my current gig are still quite good and the whole scene around personal knowledge management or medical data warehousing haven’t played out yet. I belong more on the initiation phase than as a clean-up guy even if it pays better to just organize a bunch of people already rowing a ship out of synch.