In 2013, the United States government shut down. As a government employee at that point in my career, I shut down with it. During that week when I was off, I spent my days alternatively stressing about the state of the government, and taking steps of “self care” in the form of reading a bunch… Read More Previous Rules Don’t Apply
Just wanted to check in with you all, as we navigate the global pandemic that is COVID-19 Coronavirus. I’m doing about as well as anyone… living in Georgia, our state has opened up VERY quickly (too quickly in my opinion), but I’m staying home anyway, so we just wait for everyone else to test the… Read More Essential Privilege
Full disclosure. I started this draft in January, before COVID-19, before all of our worlds turned upside down, and before I started working from home more often. Being a working mom was something I was very scared to address. In fact, every time I thought about it, I was filled with anxiety. For my entire… Read More Returning to Work
2020, what the heck is going on. I honestly don’t even know where to start. 2020 has been a hell of a year already, and we’re just 4 months in. Since 2020 began, I returned to work, had a significant VP visit to my site (which went really well), my facility then had a big… Read More Six Months of Ava
We got Shadow in June of 2010, a graduation present from Josh after I got my bachelor’s in journalism from NMSU. We had been together almost a year, and I was about to move into my first apartment without any roommates (just Josh). We went to the shelter and there he was. He was a… Read More Shadow
I’m going to preface this by acknowledging the title of this blog post. This is my white chicken chile chili. Yes, I know how weird that sounds to non-New Mexicans. But this title is accurate, don’t @ me. When there’s green chile in your chili, then it’s chile chili, you feel me? I’m also not… Read More White Chicken Chile Chili
After having our beautiful baby Ava, we tried to settle into our new routine. Our hospital routine was something brand new to us as well, so everything was something new to experience and question. Here’s a note: while my birth went relatively smoothly, I had two issues – I needed stitches, and I pinched a… Read More The Things They Don’t Tell You
I’m 39 weeks pregnant, which means at any day now, I could go into labor and have a baby. A BABY. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve known that there’s a baby coming for 9 months now. I’ve felt her move and kick and seen her little movements on the screen. I’ve heard her heartbeats, and… Read More Diary of a Working Mom
So I’m 34 weeks now and oh. My. Goodness. How is this possible? It seriously feels like I’ve only been pregnant a few months, not EIGHT. Full disclosure – I’ve had a great pregnancy. I was sick in the beginning, and I still struggle with wanting to do MORE than I currently can. I explain… Read More 34 Weeks and OMG
So we’re 20 weeks. Halfway through. Just about five months along. And oh. my. gosh. it’s going by SO FAST now. I can remember feeling so pregnant and tired. I went through what my work calls an Annual Outage during my first trimester. During the Annual Outage, we all work around 12 hours a day… Read More Oh I’m Halfway There!