Do I Want to Work Full-time? That's a Nope with a Capital "N"

Some moms can totally organize the house and kids and work full-time. I'm not one of them.

For the middle two-ish weeks of January (yes this is a post I wrote in Jan. Why is it just going up now? More on that tomorrow) I was pretty much working full-time as a temp in an optometrist's office. I didn't mind the work at all. It's a great office and place to work, the other ladies were welcoming, understanding and fun to work with. Plus I'm certified as an optometric assistant and so I fell into a groove pretty fast. However, my house and kids didn't fair well. My two little ones did okay considering, (a 3 year old boy and at the time 11 month old girl) but when they're used to having me home all day and I was gone for 8+ hours a day, 4 or 5 days a week, it wasn't that easy on any of us.

my mount doom of clean laundry:
as tall as my 3-year-old

The biggest thing that overtook my house was the laundry. I'd wash and dry load after load, (we all had to have clean clothes, especially me for work) but it would just not get folded. This happened with a couple loads, and then three, and four. And yeah this huge pile that overtook my bedroom was about 6 loads worth, (minus whatever clean clothes we took out because we had to wear them.)

Why am I telling you all this? So other working moms out there who feel like they're the only ones who can't do it all, NOT TRUE! A lot of us have trouble staying organized and we need to lift and support each other. 

Understand your own personality, and set realistic expectations. Right now my organizational skills are not at the point where I can make a full-time job work. Will I eventually be that organized? Maybe. Should I keep trying to improve and change and work on my organizational skills? Yes. But something else I learned about myself was that I didn't want to be away from my kids that much. Sometimes we don't have a choice financially and have to work full-time. Thankfully I'm in a position where I can stay home with my kids. Some women choose to work full time because they want to. But I think we all need to be aware of our own weaknesses and strengths. Because when it comes right down to it if you're so stressed out you put your pants on backwards and two different coloured socks on in the morning, yeah something's gotta give.

So what do you want? What can you handle? 

Me? I'll keep working part-time and try to rein in the chaos that is my house. 

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WAM Moment of the Week:

10 min before we were supposed to leave for my son's speech therapy appointment he lost his glasses. (Like brand spanking new two-day-old glasses) and after tearing apart his bed room for almost 15 mins, I still couldn't find them. We went to rush out the door and the babysitter found the glasses tucked in beside his mattress. So we managed to get the glasses, but when we got to the appointment I realized my son's communication aid iPad had been forgotten on the hook by the door. Yeah, it had been one of those types of mornings. :I Facepalm.

Btw if you noticed there's no Recipe Recap in the post today, stay tuned for Friday :)

WAM Moment of the Week

Blog makeover day is tomorrow! Just saying :D

We all have times when something happens where you know that it's annoying and totally not funny, but the back of your brain is laughing at you cause you know it'll be funny later and that if it happened to anyone else you'd find it hilarious! Or there's times as a mommy where it's simply a situation that other moms can totally relate too. 

I've decide to share one of these moments with you each week. Hoping you laugh or chuckle along with me, or even have a smile and an "Oh my gosh, I so know the feeling" moment. It's the Wife. Author. Mother. Moment of the Week and it's starting right now! :P :D

WAM Moment of the Week:

Standing at the front of the line at the checkout in a gas station. I'm trying to buy a litre of oil for my van. Just as it's almost my turn I remember that payday isn't until tomorrow and this happened to be one of those weeks where we needed every dollar. So I'm frantically punching at my phone to check the mobile banking app. I don't have enough on the one debit card, or in the other debit account. (don't have credit cards right now cause we gotta pay down some debt) Oy vay! I have to use two separate debit cards, plus transfer a couple dollars into the chequing on the one of them just to make it work. What? Confirm transfer? Yes. Confirmed transfer for the third time already! Smashing the button again and again. Stupid touch pad. Meanwhile there's a pile up of six people behind me and feeling all their eyes on my back doesn't make it any easier to do the thing quickly. 2 debit cards and one money transfer on a mobile app later I walk out the door with oil in hand, hooray! I then proceed to walk right back in again as I've left my keys on the counter. Yeah, I am that person. But I really don't mean to be, don't even want to be! :| :S :D LOL 

Check out today's post on Lasera: 5 Ways Your Novel Can Stand Out in the Vast Sea of Fantasy

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Mommyhood Moments

There are many who are mothers. But for those of us who don't have year round live-in nannies that put the children to bed in gold-plated cribs, we live in the world of 'Mommyhood'. Anyone who is a permanent resident of this realm knows exactly what I'm talking about. To give those other readers in the blogosphere a taste of what Mommyhood is like here's a few things that have inducted me into this realm:

Walking on a very uncomfortable boot only to pull it off and discover that there was a fruitloop in it.

Finding stains on my shirt, pants, pajamas, you name it, and having no idea where they came from.

Realizing there's playdoh under my nice freshly done nails.

Reaching that point where not putting my hair in a ponytail is all of a sudden 'fancy'.

Discovering that the 'dirt' I was forever trying to scrub off my kids' head was actually freckles (a year and a half later).

Searching forever to find the baby nail clippers, only to pull them out of the bottom of my purse a week later.

Putting my hand in a coat pocket after a long while and pulling out an unused diaper two sizes smaller than what my kid currently wears.

Anyone else have some fun Mommyhood Moments? I'd love to hear about them. :D Hope this made all you mommies (and you non-mommies) laugh.

Cheers!