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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Being a mom, who works full time outside of the home, means I don’t change a lot of diapers.  It’s not unusual for me to only change two diapers a day during the week.  Naturally, on the weekends, I change more.  But really, two diapers a day is about my average.
Since I’m an extra good [...]

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In my last post I discussed Washington state’s Family Medical Leave Act. That post started some good discussions via the comments section and in e-mails I received from readers. Basically, our current system here in America isn’t really what it should be. I find this odd since, at some point, every single one of us [...]

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Long before I ever got myself knocked up, I was curious as to my company’s maternity leave policies. I read over their Policy & Procedures manual and all it did was confuse me more. Without causing too much suspicion I even ask the one other mom that worked in my office how it [...]

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I took an amazingly cute video of my son last week.  It shows him counting out the change in his piggy bank.  The change is for his “Disneyland Fund”.  (We’re up to almost $200!)  On this video, after he’s done counting, he starts singing a little song he made up about his “Dada” and “Mama”.  [...]

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As a working mom, it’s an extra challenge for me to find special quality time to spend with my son. If I’m not cooking dinner, I’m cleaning the bathroom. If I’m not cleaning the bathroom, I’m doing laundry. If I’m not doing laundry, I’m returning phone calls.
Since the weather in Seattle [...]

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