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"When I was ready to go back to work after my maternity leave (almost a year ago!) I found three-days-a-week childcare help and thought that would be plenty\u2014more than enough, even. If you&amp;#039;re a regular reader of this blog you know this: Boy was I wrong. Even since then, I&amp;#039;ve been burning the proverbial candle at both ends\u2014and in the middle, too. I have help for 30 hours week but my various jobs probably take up 60 or 70 hours. (And did I mention that I&amp;#039;m currently training for two marathons that are 35 days apart?) Add all that to the fact that my husband works 11-hour days, and let&amp;#039;s just say our lives have been a little bit chaotic. Okay, a lot chaotic. But the chaos will soon become a bit more manageable. The families we &amp;quot;share&amp;quot; our nanny with on Tuesdays and Thursdays are sending their boys to school full time this fall, so we&amp;#039;ll have childcare five days a week. (!!!) Yes, I realize this doesn&amp;#039;t sound particularly earth-shattering. In most families where both parents work, five days of childcare is pretty much the only option once mom&amp;#039;s done with maternity leave. But for someone who thought that she could do it all\u2014and maybe that she should be doing it all\u2014admitting that I need a little help is fairly revolutionary. Are there any other work-from-home moms who had a hard time embracing childcare? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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