This question came in SO long ago, but I didn't want to answer because of the potentially, then actually, impending baby thing.

I feel quite lucky to have some very supportive executives right now who're working with me to develop my career through these coming months of sporadic availability.

While I've spent the past few years really solidifying my marketing career and mastering the operational day-to-day of the role (after a number of years trying on careers to see what fits), I'm looking forward to tackling a number of special projects to further round out my resume.

I don't expect advancement in terms of a directorship in the next 2-5 years, but I do expect that toward the end of that 2-5 year term I'll be a serious superstar of a marketer, and will be back, fully engaged in and perhaps leading a small team, and on the road to a big promotion a year or two after that.