Helpful Tips For Working Moms
September 24, 2009
Here are just a few helpful tips from one working mom:
If you happen to commute to work with your husband, it’s a good idea to make sure that he hasn’t taken your car keys and his car keys when he leaves for an early 7am meeting.
When attempting to reach said husband, it’s a good idea to make sure you are sending text messages to him and not to your friend (sorry about the early morning, slightly grumpy texts Jenny!)
While waiting to be rescued from your stranded position at home, you should probably insist that your toddler use his stool to go pee or else you’ll end up cleaning your entire bathroom (for the thirteenth time that week).
While attempting to keep urine off your bathroom ceiling, you probably shouldn’t assume the buckle on the changing table will actually restrain your 8-month-old because he’ll be crawling off of it any second.
It’s probably a good idea to wipe your urine soaked hands on something before rescuing said baby.
You’ll want to grab a burp cloth after you get the poopy diaper on the baby changed, because he’s going to start spitting up all over your floor, and if you’re not quick, he’s going to crawl through it and smell like baby vomit all day. You’ll also want to break out the carpet cleaner because yeah, he’s going to spit up there too.
When your husband finally arrives home, it’s probably a good idea to already have the kids in their shoes and coats and ready to walk out the door and not upstairs in a bedroom with toys everywhere, or he might be annoyed at you for making him leave in the middle of his meeting and then not being ready when he comes to return the keys he stole rescue you.
Just a few friendly tips from me to you so you don’t end up debating whether it would be better to crawl back into bed and wait for tomorrow or keep going because what else could possibly go wrong?
Sometimes it feels like just a few weeks ago I was waddling around in the middle of August with a belly that didn’t seem to end, or walking up and down my street, pausing for every contraction and hoping that soon I’d be ready to go to the hospital, or giving Xander his first bath, or getting peed on again because we hadn’t yet figured out the brilliance of a “pee-pee cloth”.
If you’ve read my blog much lately, you’ll already know that we have been working hard to get Xander potty trained this summer. He moves up to the next room at day care at the end of the summer, and the goal is to be fully potty trained before he can move. As with every other milestone in Xander’s life, once he decided he was ready, he was completely ready and had no interest in going backwards (the same with walking, moving out of his high chair, sleeping in a big-boy bed, etc.) We didn’t expect potty training to be any different, and it wasn’t. While Xander was still learning the process, we used pull-ups at nap time and bed time. It wasn’t long before Xander decided he didn’t like the bulky feeling of the pull-ups, and refused to wear them at night. I was of course a little nervous at first, but resigned myself to washing extra bedding during the learning process. It turns out, I didn’t need to – Xander stayed dry that whole night, and every night since then. He’s stopped using pull-ups at day care as well! We are finally back to having only one kid in diapers. There are a few mornings when Xander has woken up exceptionally early needing to pee, and a few nights when he tries to prolong bedtime by asking to use the bathroom again (and again and again), but I think we’re about ready to call this potty-training project a success!
Potty training continues… Xander is nearly perfect during his waking hours at day care, and often does pretty well in the evenings with us. We have encountered an interesting challenge though. Xander has terrible aim! I’m new to this whole potty training business, so I have no clue how most boys start out. I can’t tell you if it’s typical for boys to sit when learning and then learn to stand and pee later on, or if they usually start out standing and skip the whole sitting phase.
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