Savvy Toddler Mom

Ugh… here I am.  Once again.  Apologizing for being terrible about blogging.  Not that I’m a terrible blogger (I hope), but that I am terrible about blogging regularly.  Can once a quarter be counted as regularly?

Anyway, here I am.  Again.  Sorry, guys. 

I think about you a lot - I do!  I think, that would be a great idea for a blog… that would be a fun thing to share… oh, people should really know about that… I can’t believe my life has brought me to this point, doing this activity; I really should blog about this.  I think about blogging, then I get back to the Chinese firedrill that has become my life and I forget.  I am neglectful.

Sorry.

I wish I could say that I will be better!  I wish I could recommit and resolve to being better about blogging.  However, knowing the way my time has been the last few weeks, and knowing that the future isn’t about to be that much different, I cannot.  And why?  Because… well, here’s what is going on in my life lately, bullet-point style:

• Had a great Christmas, enjoyed time with my family
• Increased work hours in January to 25/week, joined current employer officially as an employee (was a contractor prior to that)
• SavvyDad was laid-off quite unexpectedly mid-January - ugh
• Dithered for a week or two trying to decide what to do about income/future employment/grad school opportunities for SavvyDad/etc.
• Decided to increase hours to 30/week starting in February in order to get full-time status and qualify for benefits
• Realized how much I love my job
• Realized how much I miss the toot when I’m at work (in the office 2 days a week)
• Had CTM hire-on as well at my “new” company - we love working together
• Switched from a PC to a Mac, per new employer (UGH… I’m really liking the Mac, but the learning curve is STEEP)
• Took on more of a leadership role/responsibilities at “new” job - start to obsess and find myself working ALL the time
• Realize how much I really, really love my job
• Realize how much I really, really miss spending more time with the toot and SavvyDad
• Realize that SavvyDad is a better cook than I am

I think that’s the current situation in a nutshell.  I am up late tonight working on my quarterly goals for my marketing department.  Yep, my marketing department.  It’s mine.  For now, at least.  It might soon be someone else’s (someone who is willing to work full-time at the office), but for today it is mine and I am loving strategizing, planning, dreaming, executing, and seeing the results.  The success.  It’s like a drug.

My good friend Helen keeps telling me that I am the unwilling career woman.  That I keep running away from my career destiny.  (She, of course, is the willing career woman, climbing mountains to reach and revel in her career destiny.  Helen, you are an inspiration!)  It’s not that I’m unwilling or that I’m running away, but that I don’t want to JUST have a job.  I am a mom, I am a wife, I am a friend, I am a neighbor, I am a daughter, daughter-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, and more… and those responsibilities take time.  I can’t help but try to do it all on my terms.

Do those terms include doing my quarterly planning while watching Grey’s Anatomy?  Maybe.  Or maybe I will finish first so that I can enjoy every second of McDreamy’s screen time.

I am extremely grateful for a boss and co-workers that are willing to be flexible with me, especially through this period of upheaval and adjustment!  Thank you, thank you!!!  I am also extremely grateful for my sweet husband that is willing to be even more flexible, swapping chores and roles and being cheerful about it.

Oh, there is so much more I could say!  Maybe another day, another post.

Back to the Mac and my PowerPoint.  Hope you, my steadfast readers (if you are still reading at this point, you are steadfast), are doing well; are happy and healthy and enjoying the new year.