This WAHM Stuff

I've been a SAHM for almost ten years.  This summer I took a job that uses my skills from my pre-mom career to work part-time at home.

It has kicked my butt.

It has changed my family dynamic.  It has changed how I managed time.  It has changed my friendships.

I don't care for it, it's been a nuisance, it makes me sad, respectively.

The truth - the hard, ugly, truth is that we need the money.  We have to have the money.

I like the paychecks.  I like that I'm remembering what I did before kids and that I was kinda good at it.  I like that there's an opportunity to make it full time from home.  I like that the money for the full time position would be so much awesomer than what I make now.  Yes, I said awesomer.  It's not a word.  In case you felt the need to confer with a Dictionary.

I'm here to tell you that this WAHM stuff is hard.  It's hard.

There are a few things I have learned, though.

Excuse me.  I have to wake up the kids and get them ready for school.  I'll be back later to tell you what I learned.

Maybe I need to work on my time management...

~ G

Best Thing I Read All Week

Hands down, this is the funniest thing I've read all week.  S.E.'s Mom, I just might start quoting you.   The whole page - heck, the whole site - is excellent.  Here's a sampling:




Dear Beloved Readers, 
S.E.'s Italian grandmother has a classic line that she would deliver to my brother and I when our sparring reached a fever pitch and she was seconds away from grabbing the wooden spoon. It stopped us dead. She would look at us with wide eye and gritted teeth and exclaim,... read it here - scroll down the page.

It's just wonderful.

~ G