I tried to calculate how many years I've been on night-rotation and can't for the life of me figure it out. Surely that means I've been in the game way to long! Don't get me wrong, I love to work at a hotel and especially with great colleagues and guests, however there are no colleagues and hardly anyone checks-in after 10.30 pm...
I found going back to work after maternity leave difficult. I had the entire summer with my family - we spent three months on holiday visiting both of our families. It was the best summer to date. Yes, kiddo had started nursery early September, but I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that I couldn't just pick her up whenever I wanted nor that I wouldn't be able to share the never ending wake-ups in the middle of the night.
Just to clear something up. It was my strong and beautiful wife who carried our child. She gave birth to her last October, and after a few months of the wife being seriously ill (perhaps I'll write more about that another time, if the wife approves) I returned to work shortly after Easter of this year and went on maternity leave in the middle of June through mid September.
However there's always a silver lining and mine are being able to spend time with kiddo. I'm at home when she wakes up (if she wakes up when she should...), I can eat breakfast with her and drop her of at nursery. I'm almost always awake when she comes home and can put her down to sleep every night of the week. And I can put her down for the second, third and perhaps seventh time. As I wrote in the latest Instagram post - she's as stubborn as her mothers.
- Jenny