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On the flip side my laid back friend Rachel, a doctor, has returned to work just a couple months after giving birth to her first child. Her husband has flexibility with his job and he is at home with the baby often while she is at work. Rachel is happy with the time she gets to use her brain in a structured, scientific manner and is ecstatic about being a new mom.

Susie needs to spend time balancing out her type A personality with a little bit of kid chaos. And Rachel needs to spend time thinking scientifically to balance out her naturally laid back personality. For me, balance is coming in the form of living in the moment, not being the fly on the wall taking pictures of other people’s lives. Right now, that is on hold. And it’s OK. I know that I will return to photography but for now, I am focused on balancing my self with this new world of domesticity, a new challenge for me. I’m finding stimulation and creativity in exploring ways teach my kids intellectual education as well as “street smarts”, I’m learning how to grow and cook healthy and delicious food which is stimulating to our brains and belly’s. Since I’m not making money, and I’m at home, I don’t need a babysitter that often but I make it a point to take time once a week to write, or compile pictures for my website, slowly and steadily getting “back to mine”. My plan is to take things as they come. As the babies become more independent I will make my way back to my other, older kid, career kid.

Whatever your decision is, make it YOURS and OWN IT!