Tonight is the night before Thanksgiving and we have a tradition of going to see the balloons being blown up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Several large city blocks are closed down and thousands of adults and children crowd the streets for the chance to stroll by and see “Hello Kitty”, “Scooby Doo”, […]

Would you believe I’m feeling a little excited about returning to work? I will miss my beautiful baby no doubt. However, I had a kind of dry run today as I had to present at a meeting and there were certainly aspects of my morning that seemed easier than usual. For instance, […]

It’s snowing! My baby is 3 months old today and I’m back home after a perfectly smooth “drop off” of kids at school. I am feeling the beauty of the small things…
Hearing my sleeping infant’s breath go in and out, feeling the weight of his little body on my chest, watching him stretch […]

Exhausted. Writing in the pm instead of when I first wake up. Boy what a difference. Great day of constant movement, continual washing, folding, organizing, boxing, cleaning…fed, bathed, attended to kiddos. Wish there were more hours in the day, more energy. Cousin said she’d like more positive entries–definitely need to […]

My home is a bit of a scene at the moment. My aunt and cousin came from Chicago yesterday for an 11th hour maternity leave visit and helping session. They are both wonderfully lovely, beautiful, highly competent individuals and my expectations for this visit are equally spectacular. In anticipation of the visit, […]

Last night I got 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep and I feel like a new person. I still wound up getting out of bed early (4 am) after I put Quinn back to sleep but the difference in how I feel when I have not slept is remarkable. Today/right now, I don’t mind that […]

Two weeks ago, I was behind the mother of one of my daughter’s classmates in the grocery store check out line. She accidentally paid for hamburger meat and then left it behind on the counter. By the time the clerk and I noticed, she was gone. The clerk was handing it to […]

In full-disclosure, I will share that I have been working on-and-off, part time one day a week and as needed throughout my maternity leave. Knowing that I would be returning to work full-time in less than 3 months was enough incentive to keep my hand in things at work. Better to not get […]

Hello out there. In keeping with the sentiment expressed in the previous entry about “normalizing” what mothers experience, I will be writing here regularly about the dread, fear, joy, glee, insanity…I feel about returning to work full-time, outside my home, in 12 days. I try to always mention “outside the home” because people […]

People have different comfort levels when it comes to personal disclosure. I have a friend, Sarah, who turns crimson and stares uncomfortably at her corduroys when the topic of sex comes up. She isn’t a prude, she’s just private. I, on the other hand, have a hard time leaving my first friendly outing with a […]