Returning to flight

i returned to work after maternity leave last week. While I enjoyed staying home, I am also relieved to be free of the monotony of housework and constantly repeating variations of “don’t touch that”, “get off that”, and “put your pants back on”. My work day is filled with working with parents and digging out juicy details like whether they have a car seat. A is still at home for a few more weeks until he goes back to recurrent training. He has been an invaluable help getting things done during the day and helping with our night time checklist. Dinner, clean up, lunches, decanting pumped breastmilk into bottles and freezer bags like an alchemist... it’s all chaotic at this point. A goes back next week and that’s when the training wheels will really come off. We’ll make it work, just like we always do- not like we have a choice really, we can’t give the baby back now. I think chaos will become our new norm with A moving up to a captain slot where he’ll be significantly less senior for bidding and his hopeful transition to a major down the road. In the meantime, we’ll just continue to live by our mottos of “figure it out” and “get ‘er done”. Because what other choice are we given really?