Just finished having a very impromptu lunch with a friend and colleague. I was leaving a client meeting and thought I’d touch base with her. She was leaving a speaking engagement. We both hadn’t had lunch. We headed to a great local cafe with wifi. I arrived first and had an iced coffee while I went online to get some work done before she showed up.

We talked over lunch about a variety of topics including:

1. the status projects we are working on together;
2. new projects coming down the road;
3. our kids and daycare, discipline and mommy guilt;
4. local politics and gossip;
5. more ways we can work together.
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I’m starting to reconsider our 2-year-old daughter’s daycare schedule. I’m beginning to feel like 8 hours a day 5 days a week is way too much for a 2-year-old. I come to this thought not as a work-at-home mom who is feeling guilty about sending her child away to let other people take care of her while I slave away (contentedly) in front of my computer without interruption.

I don’t think my slight change of heart over daycare came from this NPR poll:

Moms Say They’d Cut Pay for Time with Kids

Frankly, I’m not sure I’m ready to cut my pay to spend more time with my daughter.

I think my new view of daycare comes from bonding more with her and becoming more sensitive to her needs. Forty hours a week of daycare is just too exhausting for her even though she loves the interaction with other kids, something she gets much less frequently with a work-at-home mom who doesn’t have many girlfriends with kids her age.

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