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A Picture Perfect Weekend

April 6, 2010

You know those times when you imagine what your life will look like in 2, 5 or 10 years?  It’s the picture you saw before you were married and before you had kids.  As the pieces start to fall into place and you come up on those milestones of your wedding day, or seeing the [...]

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Sometimes the good stuff comes at the end

March 23, 2010

Today was a bad day.  If I had to guess it was the combination of an overwhelming workload and PMS.  PMS on a Saturday I can handle.  An overwhelming workload on a day that my hormones aren’t all out whack from recently growing a human I can handle.  PMS on a Tuesday at 10 AM when I [...]

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Finding Balance

March 7, 2010

Finding balance has been the hardest part of the four months I’ve been back to work.  Wanting to be as productive and on my game as I was pre-baby but not sacrificing my baby for my job.  I know I’m not the only mother to face this.  I’m not special or any worse off than [...]

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When I grow up

January 19, 2010

I used to spend a lot of time imagining what my life would be like when I finally had a job that I liked and was good at.  Or when I could convince Craig to marry me.  Or when I did what I always thought I was put on this earth to do and had a [...]

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Work: 451 Krista: 6

January 6, 2010

Does it make me a bad mom if for the THIRD weekend in row, I call my mom and ask her to watch my baby while I go to work on Saturday? Folks, working is kicking my ass. Like it’s the fourth grade bully that looks at me cross eyed as I walk by with [...]

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Pack my bags – I’m moving

November 12, 2009

To the state of Constant Conflict. Where a new mother, hell any mother, is pulled between wanting to be the same energetic and focused person she was before she birthed a child and the distracted and tired person she became after she had to leave that child to go earn a paycheck. Again, I KNOW [...]

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Today, I'm holding my baby

November 5, 2009

Forget writing thank you notes (its been a month, what’s another few days), going through clothes (that’s depressing anyway) or cleaning my house (like I need an excuse to avoid that)… today I am doing nothing but holding my baby, because tomorrow I am leaving her ALL DAY to go to a meeting for work.  [...]

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