I can't say that enough. I took a week of vacation this week...well actually I should be doing my research project but I decided to do all the reading parts at night (you know after my lovely diva falls sleeps after midnight) and take the 1st 7 days as vacation/Mimi time. And so I have been a stay at home mom for 6.5 days (I returned home Monday afternoon) and gave my mom as much off time as I could...actually I have hardly seen my mom these past 6 days and I'm convinced that there is a secret passageway in our 3 bedroom house. Really. Earlier I checked our basement after she wasn't in the sunroom, living room, kitchen, her bedroom, Mimi's room, my room and she popped out from behind me with a sly smile. With my mom, it is not far fetched at all that she knows somewhere I don't.
Any-who, in the past 6 days I have been all about Mimi. I've done schooltime, piano practice, dance lessons, reading time, trips to library, park and museum, our starbucks runs, my attempts at "cooking" (She then asked Grandma for food...) and all the other 100 things motherhood entails. Sorry folks, I'm more exhausted than my 4am-8pm shifts in surgery last week!!! I'm actually downplaying my exhaustion right now. Granted my little 4 year old has the energy level of 10 kids and is too bright to just stay put in front of the TV for more than 10 minutes(sue me I tried). She even takes her kindle to act out what she wants to watch in which I must play a part in as well, or act out the book or play the game with her as a narrator of what she is doing... Even at starbucks she insisted on talking to everyone and acting out scenes from tangled (the disney movie...just in case..) which led to a mom &daughter as a small audience. The mom then said to me "She should be an actress, she's really good".
So every time I do this crazy stay at home mom experiment; I remember how stir crazy I went the 1st 3months of Mimi's life where I thought that maybe, just maybe I could do this amazing job too. I enrolled at Georgetown University 3 months later for my Masters.
Today, I actually left the house at 5pm to actually do some of my research and mainly to woo-saaah. I love my daughter to the moon and back a thousand times...but oh my I am tired right now. I should have realized that I was tipping exhaustion when last night I opened this audiobook up:
and contemplated letting Samuel L. Jackson read Mimi to sleep. It was 12:53 am...and I plead the 5th as far as how she actually got to sleep.
In conclusion to all my ladies who are amazing stay at home moms, I'm drinking down a good martini for you right now. I'll live vicariously through you and one day I will sponsor a stay at home mom award show (I already have the perfect host Mimi). It will feature stay at home moms who will get glammed up by hollywood make up artists and stylists, walk down a red carpet and get some well deserved gold medals. I'm pitching this to reality show executive. On a serious note, I truly have already asked one of my cousins who happens to be in show business for her colleagues for this very reason. Inspiration usually hits me after exhaustion and martini's. Actually it was after some exhaustion and a few martinis when I decided to leave my previous career for medical school... Eh you win some, you lose some.
In the meantime
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