While reading this post last week by my dear friend (and fellow Seattle mom!) Danielle on her favorite easy dinner recipe, I decided that “hey, I need more blog posts like this!” Just think of all the time it will save me. Not to mention that my time in the kitchen has been dramatically cut [...]
It was open enrollment at my place of employment last month. Back in the old days the husband was the one that typically carried the insurance for the family. Things are changing now that more women are working. Or rather things are changing in my family. Because I also work [...]
Someone smart* recently suggested I join some sort of support group for working moms in downtown Seattle.
I thought that was a great idea. The problem was I wasn’t sure how to go about doing that. So I asked her if she had any idea where I would find a said support group.
She said, [...]
I’m trying to not eat anything today. Mostly I’m saving up for the goodness that is Thanksgiving. Especially since this Thanksgiving means a four day weekend and no cooking.
Dude, not having to work or cook is like the best weekend ever.
I can’t wait.
Today at my office I’m hoping that people start to leave after lunch. [...]
I was leaving work yesterday, trying to get my new iPod all set up for the walk to Babboo’s school when a coworker jumped in the elevator with me. I don’t know this man. He’s one of the 500 fellow employees of my huge firm. I have seen him before. Mostly I see him outside [...]
Shortly after returning to work after my maternity leave ran out I ran into The Big Boss in the elevator. He asked me how Babboo was and gave the the old thumbs up. (I hate thumbs up, by the way.) Then he told me that I sure did look good for [...]
One of the hottest topics for working moms is daycare. The mention of daycare can send shivers down a working mom’s spine and produce tears of frustration and guilt.
Daycare, we hate it, but we love it. All at the same time.
About as soon as the two pink lines showed up on my pregnancy [...]
Anytime we get invited to hang out with friends we have to inform them that we’ll be bringing Babboo with us. The first few times this happened our friends offered to share their babysitter with us. We would politely thank them for the offer and then decline. At this point they usually [...]
I hadn’t always planned on working outside the home after I became a mom. Of course that was the eighties and times were a little different back then. In the nineties I realized that I was surrounded by amazing women who had awesome careers and were loving mothers to boot. It was [...]