Labels: Mommy Stuff, One of Lindsay's Rants
posted by Lindsay @ 3:18 PM
Sharing the journey that has taken me from being a single girl in the advertising agency world to a married mommy running my own freelance writing and consulting business (and every random adventure in between).
THINGS I LOVE: Thunderstorms, power ballads, princess camping, exploring new cities, Jon Stewart, greatest hits CDs, clever ads, packing for a trip, George Clooney, impractical footwear, movies about spies, Starbucks, reading an entire book in one sitting, a house full of friends, movies about spies, buying presents, a perfect French manicure, warm modernist architecture, getting flowers for no reason, being faux brunette, Mary Poppins, making lists on Post-It notes, decorating for Christmas, having a brilliant middle-of-the-night 'aha!' idea and then actually remembering it in the morning / THINGS I HATE: People who whine, wearing sweats in public, 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, birds, American tourists in foreign countries, taking down the Christmas tree, poems that rhyme, the misuse of semicolons, being lied to, unpacking after a trip, being closed-minded, naming your kid something common but then spelling it stupidly, cowboys, overly cautious drivers, fake curse words, ridiculously long surnames, strangers who start awkward conversations with you in places you can't readily escape
5 Comments:
Absolute desperation. It's all I can think of. It happened to me once when my childcare fell through at the last second. Had to decide whether it was worse to take them along or ditch on my hairdresser last minute.
Tannis - That's what I was prepared to think too... And I could understand that. But it became pretty obvious that this mom ALWAYS brought her kid along with her.
maybe she doesn't have such amazing family and friends to count on like you do?? or maybe she's just the type of person who can't leave her kid alone with others due to trust issues?
Maybe her husband works on the road?? It can be so hard to find childcare for the middle of the day when everyone obvious to pawn your kid off on works full-time or lives too far away for stuff like that. S has been to the dentist, the hairdresser, heck I even took her to a trade show one time when I was uber desperate.
Part of it is not being very good at asking for favors - especially when you live out in the sticks so you don't always feel like you can return it the other way.
The other part is just making it work for everyone involved. That's why I found a hairdresser with kids who works out of her basement. Then I don't have to worry about other clients, but also don't have to stress about what to do with her for an hour.
Kendra - Maybe... But I paid someone for childcare. And I suspect that if she shells out what I do for haircuts, she could have managed to do that too :)
KA - I head you on the favours thing. But it sounds like you found a fabulous solution!
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