Thursday, August 16, 2007

Yey.

No apartment stuff, but this.

More Dads making use of the opportunity to take parental leave with the new Elterngeld.

8,5% up from 3,5% in one year. How cool is that?!

I won't go into all of the reasons that this is fabulous, but I do want to add that it has strengthened the resolve of some fathers we know to take time off, and one father I know is splitting the time 50/50. He loves it.

On a much, much sadder note, I am waiting for an email from Lima to find out if a friend and his family are all ok.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, where ya been? Hopefully no bad news from Lima...

ann_ona_moose said...

every thing in lima is fine. even talked to him by phone on sunday. other parts of the country are another story, but my friends there are fine.