Cafe de Valentine

I wrote this post mid September and I never posted it. Now that I've been back at work for over 4 months I thought I would add to the bottom my current schedule (things have changed a bit) and my current thoughts/struggles. I'd love the feedback from any other working Mom's. ******************************************** I am officially 3 weeks into being a full time working mom. It's probably the hardest job I've ever had. Parenting is a 24/7 job that I love and it brings me so much joy, but when we add all the things that I used to get done each evening, weekend & early morning outside of work to taking care of a little one that's a tough task. I will say that I had zero post-pardum depression and never even really had a difficult time transitioning to being a Mama. It came very naturally to me. I loved it from day one and there wasn't really anything for me to get worked up over. I will share with you, however, that transitioning back to work has been h...

So I'm not one for a movie review. If I don't like movie I usually don't finish it. Not that my time is all that valuable, but I could think of things I'd rather be doing than watching a horrible movie. Yesterday some friends called and said they'd just rented Four Christmases and they both laughed out loud it was so funny. They told us to head out and rent it ASAP. So in our sweats without any makeup on (me, hubs doesn't often wear makeup) we ran to Red box to rent it. They of course didn't have it, nor did they have anything else that seemed worthy of 2.5 hours of my Saturday night. We headed home empty handed and finished making dinner. We had caught up on our DVR's shows but had a few movies on there we'd recorded a long time ago that we still hadn't watched. The one we voted to watch was The Guardian with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher . Holy smokes I was not prepared for what it held for me. I was laughing, I was crying, I was pacing (I ...

life has an interesting way of changing all around you without you noticing it. i often wonder what happened to the season that hanging out with friends, drinking coffee, seeing movies, dreaming up perfect dates, and stressing about the final exam was my whole life. some of those friends fade as you move into jobs/careers, you marry, you have two families to accomodate (see previous post) and you now cling to your few married couple friends to help you learn how to do marriage (see previous post). then you learn that there are HUGE "issues" money, jobs, kids, family, health, houses, etc. i've moved from celebrating birthdays and weddings and baby showers to watching people struggle with infertility, losing children, having miscarraiges, and watching someone my age die of cancer. life takes turns that we sometimes don't see coming. do i live my life in such a way that in enjoy the here and now? or am i always looking for what's to come? when you're young, you c...

one of my favorite creative blogs featured this little excersize and i thought it was a great idea. check her out. seriously, all of my creativity comes from this lady. i got to meet her this last spring at the strawberry festival in arroyo grande for half a second and i loved her! http://lindseycheney.blogspot.com/ outside my window ... sun is finally shining. birds are fighting {or mating, we'll call it fighting, they're making all kinds of noise!} i am thinking ... how much i'd rather be at home on my couch with hubs right now. i am thankful for ... oh so much! my hubs, our health, our house, our jobs, the "things" we've been blessed with, and for the strength to get up each day and do it again. from the kitchen ... tonight is enchillada night. i am wearing ... work clothes :( gauchos at least! i am creating ... this blog post. going to start some {hopefully} cute centerpeices for a baby shower soon. i am going ... to finish my to do list tonight! i am rea...