More than once I’ve been told I’m a pretty laid-back first-time mom. I think when I got pregnant, I became so overwhelmed with the sheer magnitude of what I was about to do and I kinda just let go of trying to even attempt to control the situation. I’ve just been able to take one [...]
Long day. I returned to the office today after a two week (work-themed) hiatus. When I got home at 4:30pm, my husband was on the couch and Koala was on the floor next to him, eating a dreidal (standard fare, really).
I gave Koala a big hello to which he smiled, and, like a really slow [...]
They grow up so fast. They grow up so fast. They grow up so fast.
Dammit, I’m surrounded by cliches. It’s getting kinda repetitive.
But I’ll take a cribful of cliches for all the milestones Koala has experienced in the last month.
He worked really hard to sit - every day, one leg under the [...]
It would be cliche and boring to say being a working mother is like a big juggling act. Or jigsaw puzzle. Would it be any more exciting to call it an Unscramble? I used to love those.
There are so many pieces involved to making a day go by successfully. Or, at the very least, passably. [...]
Q: What’s it like being back at the office?
A: I feel like a freshman in high school.
Everything is new; it’s still school like middle school was, but it’s bigger and more complicated. And there’s more home-work.
And I’m tired all the time from waking up at 6 am to get everyone out the door in time [...]
Recently, my birthday passed but for years now I’ve just not been a birthday person at all.
Occasionally, growing up (as my ponderous tye-dye free-thinking self), I would consider - along with saving the manatees - the idea that perhaps birthdays should be about mothers, not kids. After all, the mother is the one who brought [...]
The Koala isn’t the only newbie around here. It’s hit me in the last week that I am a new person. It’s been a short process (36 hour labor) and a long process (it’s about a year since I found out I was pregnant). But here I am, changed.
I’m a mother. I’m a food source. I’m [...]
Imagine that six weeks ago yesterday my entire life was altered in a way I slowly come to fathom every day. Piece by piece. On so many levels I am amazed: at myself, for making it happen through a kind of energy and inner strength I wasn’t sure I had… At my husband, who was [...]
You may think you have everything to lose until you have a kid. Yeah, I had stuff to lose before… but now everything I had to lose is seen in the new light of having a kid and thus everything to lose.
Which is why today it dawned on me: My family lives in Israel. Israel. [...]
It’s three and a half weeks later and all of our ‘afterbirth’ guests have departed as of today. Needless to say we are looking forward to being able to settle into a semi-permanent routine where he goes to work every day till 3pm and I’m hanging with the little one playing Holly Homemaker.
Paid maternity leave [...]