Working…on my resume that is

One major perk about working at home is that I am free to job search ALL DAY if I want to.  Do I feel guilty?  Somewhat.  But if my current employer could offer us any assurances that those of us remaining after the last few rounds of layoffs aren’t about to lose our jobs too, I probably wouldn’t be looking.

Single motherhood is hard on many fronts, but the financial aspect is the worst.  Since I get close to nothing from their father (think enough to one week’s grocery bill) the stress of needing to stay financially sound is always there.  Ideally, I’d like to stay in my current line of work, but with a little more money.  Oh, and dental insurance.  Have you ever had to get your kids’ teeth cleaned without having dental insurance?  My god!  My kids are due for a cleaning and x-rays, but I don’t just have an extra $600 floating around at the moment.  I keep hounding them to brush and floss because “I can’t afford for you to get a cavity you know!”

Aside from needing more money and dental insurance, I am really craving the energy of an office. Working from home is lonely and boring.  I miss people.  I also miss being able to dress for work and wearing shoes like these…

 

or these…

Soon enough I hope!

What happened?

Hmmm, has it been a month already? 

Seriously, I had no intention of neglecting my blog for this long.  What happened is this:  the kids came back from their summer at dad’s.  Any mothers reading this understand perfectly why I’ve suddenly found myself with little time to blog.  Plus, my daughter has hijacked our computer pretty much every night since she returned.

My days of 2x workouts, dinners in San Francisco after work and date nights are over for the most part, replaced with school runs, homework and hosting and transporting to sleepovers.

Hold on…..

Okay, back.  Had to help with homework and stir dinner.

I’m going to try to get back on a regular schedule of blogging.  Right now though, dinner is about to burn.