Maternity Leave
Dear Little George,
You've been unusually sleepy today. I feel you move now and then but the movements are small and slow. Your brother has also taken to sleeping more than usual. Maybe it's the weather? OK, probably not so much in your case.
I started the process for maternity leave today. I am tentatively scheduled to be on leave from December 17 to May 5. We're going to aim for the entire 20 weeks allowed and if we need to cut things short we will. Motorola will pay 90% of my salary (tax free!) for a while, the state of California will provide 55% of my salary (tax free!) for a while, I'll have almost a month of personal time off, and the rest will be unpaid. If we were not living in California, the maximum of monetary coverage would be 7 weeks. You wouldn't even be two months old. Thank goodness for the lovely and progressive state of California.
I'm still not planning to leave work until you make motions of escape. I learned my lesson last time - losing nearly three weeks with Simon because I started leave a week before my due date.
My current project at work ends in mid-December so I'm actually (sort of) hoping you won't be early. At least, that's what I'm going to tell myself until mid-December.
I'm looking forward to spending lots of time with you.
Love,
Mama