Out of Tune with Domesticity
Archive for August, 2009
School Days
Aug 27th
First off, thanks so much for all the great comments I got on my last post!!! I love comments…they’re the little pats on the back I need to get me through. And I enjoy them so very much!
I’m happy to report that today is Adrien’s second day at school, and all is very well. He enjoys it very much and was so excited to get to go back today. I got some cute “first day” pics, but I can’t put them on here until I find the connection cable for the camera…and who knows where it is! So I’ll post those as soon as I can.
I was a little worried when I picked him up the first day. I sat in the carpool lane and someone brought him out to me. He seemed tired and a little mopey. When I asked him what he’d done that day he just looked at me and said “I wanted you there with me mommy.” But all turned out okay and he was just in need of a nap — which he never took, of course. On the way home, he pointed out a motorcycle and told me it was silver. Pretty fancy, considering More >
Ineffective Parents Send their Children to Preschool.
Aug 20th
The past few weeks there’s been an internal battle going on in my head over whether or not to place Adrien in a preschool program or not. Apparently, as I did some research, parents are warring over this too. There seem to be two camps on this issue — as divided are breastfeeding moms and formula moms. I dare say that this may even go as deep as stay at home moms vs. working moms…whatever either of those battles are actually about.
I’d always just assumed that preschool was the way to go. It seems like just about everyone I know is going to put their kid in one at some point. Stay at home moms everywhere rely on “Mother’s Day Out” programs. I’d never considered that some parents actually feel that putting your child into one of these, or any other preschool before the “Pre-K” age is sort of cheating. I was chatting with a friend the other day, when I mentioned finding Adrien a preschool. We all know I’d batted the option of returning to work around, but she was even a little surprised I think to find out that I was still looking for schooling options for him More >
The Cracking Glass
Aug 16th
Let me take a deep breath, because this week has been a doozy. Today, so far, has been a doozy. Right now? Life is a doozy.
I’ve been dealing with the loneliness life here has brought. Life in Tyler sort of spoiled me. I forgot what live for yourself in the city was like. I forgot about everyone being so busy all the time. I miss my friends in Tyler. I miss going to Dairy Queen and running into a familiar face. Right about now, I could use a familiar face. I could also use a good worship service. Some good old preachin’. Some reassurance from The Word. But I’ll talk about all of that later.
I didn’t get that job…you know, the shoe-in one. I wasn’t a shoe-in. I’m unhireable. Corporate America doesn’t understand why in the world you’d ever take 3 years off to raise a child. But that’s fine, I’m here with my babies. I will still be putting Adrien in a two day a week preschool. And thank God, because I really need that two days a week. We’ve been “sleep training” him. Yes, he’s 3. And yes, we should be past this. But we’re not. We’d all More >
Playdates and Preschools
Aug 6th
Went to meet some friends at the mall today. Just like old times. We met and the kids played before we went to the food court and had some grub. And afterward we walked around. So nice to be with old friends. I missed them. I always love how you can get together with old friends and it can seem like no time’s passed since the last time you’ve seen them. The only way I knew today that any time had gone by was because we have growing children by which to judge the time gap against. All of the kids are so much bigger now. It’s amazing. But as for us, we’re all still the same. A great comfort, indeed.
Still batting around the idea, heavily, of returning to work. Although the person I would be assisting will be out of town until Monday, the company is still supposed to be calling to set up “testing” times. You know, those stinkin’ tests where they test your typing speed and ability to use PowerPoint and Word and all of those other fascinatingly fun programs you need for corporate life. All very exciting, indeed. So that’s where I stand, right there, waiting More >
Social Net Working
Aug 3rd
I’ve just been sort of floating along here in Dallas. Until yesterday, when, a Facebook message knocked me on my ass. It’s not the message I got when I went to log into mine. No. Although, that one knocked me for a loop…upon an attempted log in, I was told that my account had been disabled. I emailed them and got a reply that they’d help me as soon as I emailed them from an email account associated with an actual Facebook account. The problem, you see, is that I use an address that forwards to the actual email address assigned to my inbox. Although they’re the same account and both end with me, as far as Facebook is concerned, I’m not me because me is a forward address. Complicated. And with all of that, there is still no explanation for why I got kicked off that damn social networking site anyhow. And yet, I digress.
So yesterday, Andi’s old boss — of the job before last fame — sent him a message saying she needed to hire an assistant and was wondering if I’d be interested. Apparently a mutual friend of Andi’s and Andi’s ex-boss suggested it. The salary? Well More >