This. This is an out of office that I received after I sent a follow-up work email to someone I barely knew. It was from May, but the experience has remained on my mind and heart since. See ... this woman? She’s a fellow working mama, like me, balancing her passion for HR with her [...]
This is me from our trip to California - a literal one (wo)man band of suitcases, car seats and babies walking through the Boston and Sacramento airports. What you don’t see is my husband, Chris, behind the camera, balancing another child and push cart of approximately 62 bags (#becausesnacks). Seeing us coming must have been [...]
I was on a conference call when my co-worker came by and quietly dropped something off at my desk. I didn’t think much of it - I assumed it was a report or some mail. When the call ended, I looked down and saw that she had given me this amazing #MomLife adult coloring book [...]
I know now why fish tanks are in pediatric doctor’s offices and children’s hospitals. I used to think they were there for decoration or simply to fill up space with something large and colorful. I also made the incorrect assumption that they were there for the children. I’m here to tell you these colorful aquariums [...]
3:38pm. That’s the time today when we received the DCPC. Oh, you don’t know that acronym? Well that makes sense – because I just made it up. But, I feel like it needs an acronym because it’s something that I’ve been experiencing a lot these last 9 months and clearly something I’ll continue to experience [...]
A year ago I was sitting in a hospital bed like this one, having just welcomed our little Teddy into our lives. I would have never thought if you fast forwarded a year, we would be back in the hospital, but this time the patient would be my husband Chris, wearing a similar gorgeous "johnny". [...]
She's so cute!" ... I smile back at the Dunkin' Donuts worker, offering a universal nonverbal "thank you". We both turn to look at Lucy who is grinning to herself, proudly sitting on the counter, her pigtails swaying as she kicks her feet back and forth. After all, she is about to get a "doh-dee". [...]
Elmo made me cry today. Like “ugly, mascara running down your face” cry. Why is it that the most heart-wrenching moments of parenting happen when you least expect them? This phenomenon should be included in all of those “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” books. Chapter 14: How Not to Ever Ever Let Your Emotional [...]
I must have discovered time travel, because I am always living in the future. I could say it’s because I’m a mom … that somehow when I gave birth to my first child, I was given this unique gift to transcend time, but I fear I have always been this way. See, I don’t see [...]
Tonight was going to be the second overnight away for me and Chris since Lucy was born. (Yes for those math majors out there ... that’s 27 months). I made three beauty appointments today because after all ... despite being together for 16 years, having added 14 wrinkles to my face and (cough cough) pounds [...]
