I've had friends email me and ask if I'm ok - and
long-lost classmates find me and wonder what I'm up to. Being a mama is hard, hard,
hard. Speak the truth, people.
I am totally blessed.
AOL gets me there faster. And definitely, I don't
know what to do. Speak the truth, and drink coffee.
I'm also considering having "computer vacations" on
Thursdays until I get a job - no email, no internet, no blogging from the time we
leave for preschool 'til Daddy gets home from work.
He'd have to switch to the National Guard. It was
all I could do not to slap him upside the head.
If I have a higher purpose in life, a goal outside
feeding my family and putting dollars in the Roth IRA, it's this: making other mamas
and dads out there know that they're not the only ones.
com or on AIM: cafemamadotcom. Tacit approval of
your parenting style in a world-leading print publication by the country's leading
expert in the field - not a bad day's work if you ask me. She developed Cafe au Play
entirely independently, probably because we all need something like this so
badly.
The rest of this post will be just a sketch, an
outline, of that piece. We got to the store, he did everything I asked, politely,
sweetly. She argues that social power and gender politics are being used against
women, with their acquiesence, to convince them to give up promising careers in
order to take over the "home fires. Over the coming months I'll periodically post
ideas of things that we need and talking more about On the Road.
And I'm creating considerable writing chops, while
still using my business, marketing and management skills.
I did, and I was faced with my last
hill.
After all, children act up to get
attention.
I love being a mama, I love being a wife to my
husband. He needs, needs, needs me every instant.
And I started down, I reminded myself to pick up
speed, I adjusted my arms and lengthened my stride. Especially in the first few
months, especially when it's your first child, especially when you don't have a lot
of moms around who speak the truth. It was that the WIN network had been sold to
AOL.
I am the worst violator.
But how do we know when to say when?
He'll hug me, kiss me, tell me he loves
me.
, the company that owns Blogging Baby and
Slashfood, the blogs I've been spending every waking hour writing for over these
past months. And I started down, I reminded myself to pick up speed, I adjusted my
arms and lengthened my stride. This is the best, though, the best I've ever
taken.
And I'm creating considerable writing chops, while
still using my business, marketing and management skills.
Because my workspace is anywhere with power and a
wifi connection. You have been emailing me with preschool information, and asking me
about a business plan for Play Cafe. A place where children are not just permitted
but catered to.