March 20th, 2012

my mom rocked it

Because we work at home and most nights are spent here due to our inability to find a babysitter (sigh), a lot of the time I feel like we live in a vacuum. We read the news, listen to NPR and watch the Daily Show and Colbert (hello funniest thing on TV), but I still wonder what we miss by not going into an office or taking very many in-person meetings. We’re no longer forced to look work-presentable every day, so if we don’t have any plans, we usually end up in PJs all morning and take showers after lunch. When we do leave, it’s usually a mad scramble to not be late, as we’ve become so accustomed to our own time that having a set time to meet other people is a challenge.

I often wonder what will happen when the Peanut starts going to school. My parents worked all the time, so while there were some days my mom drove us to school in a robe, she never picked us up in anything less than full work gear – makeup, heels, jewelry, perfume (she smells lovely), etc. She always seemed quite glamorous, to us and to our friends. There’s still a guy from my class who asks me about her whenever I see him – he used to flirt with her when we were in high school and she thought it was adorable, lol.

Neither the Chop nor I will end up picking the Peanut up from school in heels, but I do have a goal to never pick him up in sweatpants or a bathrobe. We’ll see how that goal pans out.