Every morning I get dressed for work while feeling sorry for myself for having to wake up at the crack of dawn. I usually walk past Babboo’s bedroom on my way out of the house to make sure he’s still sleeping. My gut starts to hurt at this point it the day. This is the [...]
My work day changed recently.
I used to pick up my two year old son from his downtown Seattle daycare and then we would ride the Metro bus home together. This was our time together. He would sit on my lap and tell me about his day. He would tell me what he ate for [...]
Have any of you seen “Mad Men” on AMC?
What about “Swingtown” on CBS?
I’ve been watching both of them lately and dude let me tell you, the ladies on that show are being sexually harassed left and right. “Mad Men” is set in the 1950’s where there are typing pools and secretary’s who are working [...]
I’ve been thinking, for a while now, that it might be nice to have one day off each week where I could spend it prancing around town with my Stay-At-Home-Mom friends. I’ve longed to meet them at the park for playdates. Or at the zoo. Or the aquarium. Or their house. Or my house. Anything.
I [...]
For the past six months I’ve had a little piece of paper hanging in my cubicle at work. It says:
Guaranteed Ride Home
Employees who ride the bus, carpool, vanpool, bike or walk to work on any given day are guaranteed a free ride home – via taxi – in the event of illness, emergency or unexpected [...]
When school shootings started to be the in-thing I was well out of the school system. While I was thankful that I would never need to worry about a fellow student losing it and shooting up the school, I was fearful of my dad. He is a teacher at a public high school. I used [...]
Working full time, for anyone, is time consuming. Typically you spend eight hours, each day, doing work that you get paid to care about. On your off time, each day, you end up doing work that you don’t get paid for, but that still has importance and must get done. And honestly, I find the [...]
Living in Washington, more specifically Seattle, we all know about the lack of sunshine in the Great Northwest. I personally think Seattle gets a bad rap about rainfall. I’ll be honest; we see a lot of rainfall here. But I think it’s more about the lack of sunshine then the actual amount [...]
Now that my son is officially a toddler, he’s talking more. And saying full sentences. This has been especially helpful during meal time. Now instead of just throwing food on his plate and hoping he’ll eat it, he can ask for what he wants to eat. Of course he usually asks for waffles, yogurt, grapes, [...]
Before I left work to have my kid, I talked about the possibility of working from home with my Direct Supervisor. I didn’t just walk into his office one day and inform him of my post-child work schedule. Instead, I casually brought it up while he and I were discussing his [...]