So it’s Monday after a long break off from work.  Almost two weeks to just be home with the kids.  I think some parents dread this time of year.  Most kids are restless, they are over feed and over stimulated with all the parties, toys and travel.  Maybe someday I will be that kind of parent who can’t wait to get back to work- back to schedules.  But for now I am kind of sad that it is over.  Only this once a year do I get to just be home with them.  We have no agenda except to play and laugh and be lazy.  My oldest loves PJ days and wanted everyday to be a PJ and Pancake day.  My baby wanted to just sit on my lap all day and watch her new movie and make new jewelry.   I love that my kids enjoy it as much as I do.  I wonder do they behave extra good because they know how much I love the mental break from being the working Mom who always feels like she is not doing enough for the house or the kids?  I know someday in the near future I will become obsolete to them and I will embrace my working mother status more then I do now but I wish today was my clean the house and get back to normal day instead of back to the reality  of travel, work and conference calls.  I was talking with some Stay at Home Moms over the break and they asked me if I loved working.  Hard question.  Yes I do.  I love my job and I am good at it.  I just love being a parent more and wish I could do more of it.  Over these last two weeks off I spent a few days doing a picture montage of the last ten years of our life together as a family.  So much has happened in those ten years.  We got married, had two children, my husband got his Ph.D, we moved 5 times.  I kept thinking how fast it all goes and so today back in reality I am a bit sad that I will have to wait another year to get stress-free time with my kids when I can just be their mom.