LivinginBrno

 In one of my previous posts, I was sharing how privileged I felt to be able to afford to be on Parental Leave for as long as it is necessary. As parents here without extended family or support, we found that best solution is to use Parental Leave instead of fast returning to work - to pay than strangers to raise our kids. For us it was more profitable and beneficial to do so, each situation is different and what worked for us might not work for everyone. Now all kids attend school and kindergarten and I have sufficient time during the day to work. On our side, this season was like last season: a lot of seasonal sicknesses - boys are fine now but we all had so far our fair share of the virus cocktails traveling around. We all had stomach flu during October, then I had the flu followed by a mild and quite reasonable weekend cold as a b-day present. But all in all, this winter was better for us - we could attend all the X-mass events, karate contests with kids where they got their red be