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• How things are going for me at work (fine)
• How my photography projects are coming along (they’re not)
• How the boys are adjusting to being in daycare (amazingly awesome)
• The baby turning 1 a few weeks ago (what?! How’s that possible?!)
• How we’re managing to stay on top of our bills (a wing and a prayer)

What I’m going to write about instead:

The West Wing

That’s right. I’m hooked on another amazing tv show (shocker) and it is consuming every spare moment I have. In-between waking up, daycare, work, home, cooking, cleaning and bedtime, I’m managing to watch 2-3 episodes a day and still get 5 or 6 hours of sleep in a night. I’m pretty shocked about that. The sleep I’m getting, I mean, not the fact that I’m watching 2-3 episodes of The West Wing a day. And while I’m watching the show I have to remind myself that the issues they are dealing with are like 10 years old now and there’s no reason why I should be so invested in what’s happening, politically speaking that is, but I am. This show is that good.

I remember watching this show when it was airing and absolutely LOVING it. And now I remember why. It’s smart, hella funny, and even though it’s all about politics and how the people running the US handle their jobs every day, it’s just so engaging and funny that I’m totally obsessing over it all the time.

Watching this show almost (almost) makes me want to get more involved with politics. Except for the fact that I hate politicians and don’t trust them for the most part… so… there’s that. But it is making me want to do more with myself. Watching this show again is inspiring me to want to do more, do better, make real changes in my life, if not the world at large.

Anyways, I just thought you should know. Since I’ve clearly been too busy watching TV to blog or anything this week.

My bad.

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Good Job, Time Magazine. You get an A+ for selling magazines this week. Anything it takes to get the dollars in, right? For a second there I thought you were the Enquirer, but, oh, wait, the article was actually a well written piece on the issue of breastfeeding and attachment parenting. Too bad the message is getting lost in the hail of outrage from the public at large on both sides of the issue. The people who think breastfeeding should be done but not seen, or not done at all hate you, and now breastfeeding mothers and attachment parenting families hate you too. Good Job.

And while I understand that you’re in business to make money, (from what I can tell your magazine isn’t really that popular, you probably need that extra boost in sales this week to stay afloat) I really wish you would have perhaps chosen a less inflammatory picture to use on the cover. By all means, show a mother breastfeeding her pre-school age son, but perhaps show it in a more realistic light, say, her sitting in a comfy chair cradling her son in her arms, like most kids breastfeed? Oh, I understand that you think it may not have sold as many copies and generated as much press as you’re now getting, but maybe, just maybe you would have helped bring the important issue of breastfeeding to your audience in a more responsible way. It’s also sad that you had any number of other perfectly suitable pictures that you took for the cover that would have been less controversial, but few people will actually take the time to look at those ones.

I could throw out a bunch of shame-on-you’s in order to keep making my point here, as my husband will tell you I’m especially fond of the finger-waggle, but I won’t because you’re not really reading this post anyways.

What I will say is that while the article was an interesting and informative read for me, a breastfeeding mother who is in the middle of my own debate on how long I’m going to continue to breastfeed my, now, 1-year-old child, you’ve just thrown the debate to the wolves and left mother’s like me to fend for ourselves.

Good job.

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Here are 5 things I woke up thankful for today:

1. I’m thankful that my mother is helping me to cover the cost of daycare for the preshus and the peanut. First and foremost, I am so very thankful for this. Hopefully within the next few months we’ll have our financial situation straightened out a bit better so that we won’t need help anymore, but until then, I’m thankful.
2. I get to drink my tea or hot chocolate while it’s still hot! This is a big one for me; I’ve poured out way too many half-drunk cold cups of tea over the last 12 months. This is better *sips hot chocolate* Ahhhhh…..
3. I get to pee, alone, without anyone bursting into tears or getting into fisticuffs. You parents of tiny humans know what I’m talking about. I can also pee when I first feel the need to pee, and not 3 hours later after 2 diaper changes, one potty break, a handful of cheerios thrown on the floor, filling a sippy cup, wiping spilled milk up off the floor, and tripping over no less than 4 toys on the way to the loo.
4. Thursday is payday. I’ve missed seeing full-sized paycheques landing in my bank account every other week. This will be a treat. Just in time to pay rent, too! Also groceries. We need groceries.
5. I enjoy working. As much as I’ve complained over the last year and a half about how unhappy I had been with my job when I left for mat leave, the near impossible task of finding a new job has given me a new appreciation for the job I DO have. Also, being back and actually doing the work is fun. I didn’t truly realize how much I missed it until I was back. Yay work!

My desktop beverage station featurning David’s Tea and Second Cup.

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Did I end up with a neat little elevator pitch like I was supposed to?

No, not really.

But I did end up with an awesome new About Me page which I think is the bees knees. (did I just write that?) (yes, apparently, I did).

Anyhoo… check it out.

PreshusMe’s Shiny New About Me Page!!!!!

Go ahead. Share it with your friends.

You know you want to.

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A while back I got an email from Pro Blogger that the book for the #31DBBB program had been updated and for just a few bucks I could get my hands on it. So I did, then it sat in my email inbox for months.

Well I’m digging it up now and working through it, at my own pace. I wanted to spend part of my mat leave improving the content of my blog but of course I didn’t have the time.

And now that I’m back at work I find that there are the occasional moments of downtime that I can use to get through this project. I can kill two birds with one stone. Improve my blog, finally get though 31DBBB, and look busy at work when I have, in fact, finished all my work for the day. Well, that’s three birds, but whatever. I’m going to work through the course at my leisure. Because I can do that now

Anything I can do to get away from writing about my kids all the time because as cute as they are, I am more than just a mother (with incredibly cute kids. I mean look at those faces would you?! Look! So cute!!)

I am a woman, I am a blogger, I am pursing by happiness. Hmmm… That was pretty cliché.

Oh well.

Wish me luck!

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On the way out the door in the morning. Happy but tired!

I love that the peanut and the preshus love daycare!

Well, maybe love is a strong word at this point, but they definitely don’t hate it which is a big WIN in my book.

The preshus took to it right away. New toys and new friends to play with? He is all over that. Makes me feel kind of bad that he’s been stuck hanging out with me and the peanut for the past year, but such is life. He’s happy to get there in the morning and is sad when he has to leave at the end of the day. She’s patient and kind with him and is working hard to teach him things and correct his behaviour where he needs correction. One week in and daycare is awesome for him. I’m so happy for the preshus.

The peanut is still taking his time warming up to the idea of being at daycare all day, but he’s slowly adjusting. I can’t blame him, he has spent literally every day of his life with me
with only a couple of hours here and there of people looking after him for me. A whole day away from mommy? The horror. I am happy to report, however, that he now only cries a bit at drop-off in the morning, but then the daycare lady shoos me out the door and he’s good for the day. He plays with the other kids and toys, eats like a champ and naps like a rock star. I can’t ask for anything better.

I’m so thankful that daycare is working out so well for them, and us.

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I love to work.

Sure this job can be boring and tedious at times, but it’s better than sitting at home watching Charmed all day*.

At the end of the day, I’m glad to be back at work. I’m actually a bit surprised at this because for the first hour of the day on Monday I felt like “I can’t believe I have to come back to this…”. But as the day progressed, and after getting back into the swing of things and remembering all that I get to do each day and the people I get to work with, by the end of the day I was pretty surprised at how happy I am to be back.

I have no doubt that these feelings of mine will probably change as the days and weeks go by, but for now, I’m happy.

And for that, I’m happy.

*Well of course it isn’t, but this pays better.

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Tired. Full stop.

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I’m most excited about getting my professional life back on track. I may be stuck in a job I’m not 100% happy with but it will pay me a modest income which we desperately need right now, as well as give me the opportunity to build my skills and resume. My career took a major detour 5 years ago when I got downsized, and now I’m ready to get it back on track.

I have so much to offer and so many skills and talents, I just want to use them to do good work and make big money.

That’s my goal.

Back to work!

Yay me!

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