{"id":2333,"date":"2021-02-11T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T19:56:59","slug":"never-enough-living-in-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2021\/02\/11\/never-enough-living-in-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Enough: Living in Tension"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the start of my newest article for Joyful Life Magazine<\/a>. <\/em>
\nYou can read the entire article here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t plan on working. And I didn\u2019t plan on staying at home. To be honest, I didn\u2019t have much of a plan at all when I went into marriage. We were still in school and young when we got married, and children seemed a long way off into the future.<\/p>\n

I had worked in various jobs since graduating from college, but when our daughter was born on our seventh wedding anniversary, I suddenly felt the weight of work in a new way: working meant being away from her, and being with her meant being away from work.<\/p>\n

\"Hope<\/p>\n

As a teacher at the time, her birth in May was convenient; I had the whole summer to get used to being a new mom. But the months sped by with unnerving speed, and before I knew it, I found myself in orientation meetings that August, combing the schedule for an opportunity to relieve my engorged breasts. I slipped away to pump during a break and tried desperately to keep milk from dripping onto my work slacks.<\/p>\n

It was my first taste of the tension of being a working mom.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article here, at Joyful Life Magazine<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\"Still<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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